Painter and patron
Painter and Patron is a 1918 privately printed book by Edward Detraz Bettens, published in New York, about the painter-patron relationship between artists and collector Louise E. Bettens. The four plates are reproductions of paintings from her collection, printed as halftones with captions and turned sideways on the page. Their dark, tonal landscapes and figure scenes suggest a designer could draw on early twentieth-century halftone reproductions of Old Master-style compositions, with atmospheric chiaroscuro and layered, soft-edged masses.
