The lobby exhibit for October is a selection of silhouettes from the Prairie Museum of Art and History collection.
A silhouette is the image of a person, animal, object or scene represented as a solid shape of a single color - usually black. The silhouette is usually presented on a light background.
As early as 1759 profiles cu from cardboard were the cheapest way of recording a person's appearance. In America, silhouettes were highly popular from about 1790 to 1840. Many book illustrators in the late 19th and early 20th century used silhouette techniques. Painted silhouette images remained popular on advertising souvenirs into the 1960s.
