"Mosaic and Streak Viruses of the Potato" print (1962) Size:12x18" the Library of Congress

the Library of Congress

print by Arthur W

ransacked the cat food

this kind of economic-modernism-with-graphic-script also appears in the Our Food Costs booklet

rather than one

"Mosaic and Streak Viruses of the Potato" print (1962) Size:12x18" the Library of CongressThroughout the Agricultural Arts collection, you can see the same skilled artistic hand at work across subject matters and publications, even though those artistic hands were never credited and remained anonymous. Some of those hands, though, were not so skilled. Or were in a hurry. This 1962 cover is a perfect example of that. Note the inconsistent baselines (ie. how "STR" and "EAK" do not line up vertically) and how the horizontal spaces between