Portraits and paintings of old New Orleans by Wayman Adams : October 24 to November 5
An exhibition catalogue issued by the Milch Galleries in New York in 1921 for a show of Wayman Adams's portraits and paintings of old New Orleans, held October 24 to November 5. The single plate is a soft, tonal image of a doorway in a stone arch, with its wooden leaves swung open onto a bright interior where a woman in a pale dress stands near a potted plant. The dark masonry frame against the luminous centre offers a designer a clear model for strong light-and-shadow contrast and for framing a figure within an architectural opening.
