Date/Time
Date(s) - 05/24/2018
6:15 pm - 8:00 pm
Location
Salmagundi Art Club of New York
Category(ies)
May 24, 2018, 6:15 PM, at the historic Salmagundi Art Club of New York, on 5th Avenue in Greenwich Village:
Dr. Jennifer Mass, art conservation scientist, art authentification co-consultant, and Mellon Foundation funded Bard Graduate Center Professor, speaks on research and discoveries on now-problematic paints used by Impressionist, early Modernist, German Expressionist and contemporaneous artists. Dr Mass features well known artworks whose painted colors have changed very significantly over time. Mass explains detecting and locating fugitive and changing colorants via advanced scientific methods, and digital modelling of intended appearance.
‘Microscopy and Early Modern Masters: Painting Methods and Color Change in Works by Edvard Munch, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and Amedeo Modigliani’ ~ Dr. Jennifer Mass
Organized with the New York Microscopical Society by the New York Conservation Foundation in NYC, and the Salmagundi Art Club’s Program Committee. Hosted by the Salmagundi Art Club of New York.
Admission is free, RSVP required: call 212 255 7740 to attend.
Salmagundi Art Club calendar announcement, HERE
See you there!
~John
John Scott, NYMS Vice President, Program Chair, Archivist, etc.
Conservator of Art and Architecture
N Y Conservation Fdn, SACNY, etc.
&
Bonnie Seiler, SACNY Program Chair