The old world and the new : exhibition of paintings, etchings, lithographs & woodcuts by C.R.W. Nevinson of London, England
This 1920 exhibition catalogue from the Bourgeois Galleries in New York presents paintings, etchings, lithographs and woodcuts by the London artist C.R.W. Nevinson, set against a contrast between old and new worlds. The two plates show a canyon-like city street of towering skyscrapers and a crowded festive square with striped awnings and hatted revellers at a shuttered café. A designer might take from them the dramatic perspective of converging rails and building facades, and the dense, jostling crowd rendered in angular, hatched tonal patterns.
