The Catalogue of the ... annual exhibition at the Carnegie Institute
This is an exhibition catalogue issued by the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh in 1900, listing paintings shown at its annual exhibition. The pictures here are small halftone portraits of men, mostly head-and-shoulders views in dark suits with moustaches and beards, printed in grey tones. A designer could take from them the simple, formal vernacular of turn-of-the-century press portraiture and its tight cropping against plain backgrounds.
