The graphic arts; modern men and modern methods
A 1921 survey of graphic arts published in Chicago for the Art Institute by the University of Chicago Press, written by the printmaker-critic Joseph Pennell for readers interested in modern printmaking and illustration. Its plates show pen drawings, lithographs, etchings and an early medieval manuscript initial, each captioned with the artist and process. A designer could take from them the contrast between loose pen hatching for figures, heavy tonal lithographic blacks for labourers, and the fine tonal etching of a doorway.
