Cloudy Skies
1935
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Early Modern sheet music
1935
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
This print by Haydn Mackey shows a slice of 1930s design life. It’s one of his colored proofs—woodcut or linocut—with sheet-music details. Mackey fooled the eye by hand-painting the back of tracing paper and pressing it facedown onto oatmeal paper, so the colors stayed on the reverse. Look next at the sheet music covers he often mixed into his prints.
