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Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh [Published date: 1909]. Hardcover, [approximately 230 pp] (unpaginated); illustrated throughout with black and white reproductions of exhibited works and artist portraits; 16 cm.
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In good condition / no dust jacket. Original cream paper over boards with gilt-stamped medallion device on upper cover, showing profile bust with text "Honos Alit Artes," and gilt lettering below. Covers show light to moderate overall scuffing, age toning, and soiling, with paper chipped at head and foot of spine. Front endpaper split along inner hinge (between paste-down and free endpaper), but binding itself remains solid with no other cracks. Age spotting to top and bottom edges of text block. Previous owner's name and date (July 1909) in ink on front paste-down. Otherwise pages are lightly toned but unmarked. Exhibition catalog issued in conjunction with the Thirteenth Annual Exhibition of Painting at the Carnegie Institute, held in Pittsburgh from April 29 to June 30, 1909. Includes plan of the floors of the Department of Fine Arts, alphabetical entries for participating artists, brief biographical notes, and illustrations of selected works, as well as the list of various honors awarded to the participants in this and in prior years. Most of the paintings were offered for sale. List of illustrated works includes: Portrait of Miss Helen Beatty by John W. Alexander; Mother and Son by Cecilia Beaux; In the Little Woods of Scheveningen by B. J. Blommers; Damrak at Amsterdam by G. H. Breitner; The Gate by Arnesby Brown; In Largo Bay, Fife, Scotland by T. Austen Brown; Portrait of Mrs. C. by William M. Chase; Sadness by the Seaside by Charles Cottet; November Hills by Bruce Crane; Junipers and Willows by Ludwig Dill; A Wooded Common of the Cotswolds by Alfred East; The Ford by Mark W. Fisher; The Village Industry by Stanhope A. Forbes; Spring by Lillian Matilde Genth; Spring Morning by Childe Hassam; Amusement by E. A. Hornel; Milling Cider Apples by H. H. La Thangue; Portrait of a Bohemian by Antonio Mancini; Bucolique by Henri Martin; The Judgment of Paris by Emile Rene Menard; Return from Fishing by Hendrik Willem Mesdag; Pool with Water-lilies by Claude Monet; A Pleasant Afternoon by Albert Neuhuys; A Day in Spring by Leonard Ochtman; Sentinel Rock by Henry W. Ranger; The Bridal Morning by George Sauter; Approach of Spring by W. Elmer Schofield; Procession during a Thunderstorm by Lucien S. Simon; Playa de Valencia by Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida; In Rittenhouse Square by Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones; Hiding of Moses by Henry Ossawa Tanner; Girl Crocheting by Edmund C. Tarbell; Stevenson Memorial by Abbott H. Thayer; Wandering Gypsies by Jose Villegas; The Hilltop Barn by A. Bryan Wall; Building a Dam on the Shetucket by J. Alden Weir; The Dark Sea by Joseph R. Woodwell; Village Pond by Heinrich Zugel.