Exhibition of French and Belgian art from the Panama-Pacific international exposition, 1915 : City Art Museum, St. Louis, February, 1916
This is a 1916 exhibition catalogue from the City Art Museum in St. Louis, listing French and Belgian paintings shown after the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915 in San Francisco, and aimed at American museum visitors and art readers. Its plates are halftone reproductions of paintings: a wooded coastal view with figures, a sunlit field with a child and a lamb, a colonnaded terrace with seated figures in headwraps, and a crowded village square with a church. A designer might take from them the muted tonal palette, dense foliage framing and strong dark-light contrast typical of early twentieth-century academic and impressionist painting.
