Cover of Graphics, the journal of the Association of Medical Illustrators, 1953
Department of Art as Applied to Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
This journal contained an article by Pauline Larivière entitled, “Contemporary Art Principles and Medical Illustration,” in which she extolled her fellow illustrators to embrace modern techniques: “The best in all art is that which is contemporary with its times, and puts to use the current idioms, the techniques and available facilities. Contemporary art does not discredit the art of the past nor belittle its usefullness […] The quality and usefullness of medical illustration more often is restricted by an author’s visual and perspective limitations than by an artist’s skill.”