From the content: 1. 20th Century Oil Paint. The interface between science and conservation and the challenges for modern oil paint research -- 2. Do we see what we know or do we know what we see?

I once asked an artist I know what he did about varnishing his oil paintings. I had read about "varnishing day" at the great salon exhibits in Paris in the 19th century and wondered what it was like ...

Paint in America--a Symposium on Architectural and Decorative Paints (1989 : Lexington, Mass.) Colonial and federal America : accounts of early painting practices / Abbott Lowell Cummings and Richard ...