The works of James McNeill Whistler
A 1913 New York monograph by Elisabeth Luther Cary on the painter James McNeill Whistler, reproducing his work in halftone for an art-reading public. The pictures are reproductions of Whistler's drawings and paintings: a pencil study of a draped standing figure, a dark interior with a seated woman and an older man in profile, and sepia prints of women in white dresses. A designer could take from them the restrained tonal palette of grey, brown and cream, and the economy of figures placed against flat walls.
