The Catalogue of the ... annual exhibition at the Carnegie Institute
An exhibition catalogue issued in 1900 by the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, listing the annual painting show for art-world visitors and collectors. The four pictures are halftone head-and-shoulders portraits of men in dark suits, likely photographs of artists or exhibitors printed as small studio-style plates. A designer might take the restrained grey tonal range, tight oval-free square crops, and the period photographic texture for vintage portrait layouts.
