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Paint in America : the colors of historic buildings Roger W. Moss, editor

Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks TP 934 .P317 1994
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Format:
Book
Conference/Event
Contributor:
Moss, Roger W., 1940-
Conference Name:
Paint in America--a Symposium on Architectural and Decorative Paints (1989 : Lexington, Mass.)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Paint--Congresses.
Paint.
Color--Conservation and restoration--United States--Congresses.
Color.
Physical Description:
318 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 26 cm.
Other Title:
Colors of historic buildings
Place of Publication:
Washington, D.C. : Preservation Press, National Trust for Historic Preservation, c1994.
Contents:
Colonial and federal America : accounts of early painting practices / Abbott Lowell Cummings and Richard M. Candee
House painting in Britain : sources for American paints, 1615 to 1830 / Ian C. Bristow
Nineteenth-century paints : a documentary approach / Roger W. Moss
The early American palette : colonial paints color revealed / Frank S. Welsh
Colonial Williamsburg colors : a changing spectrum / Thomas H. Taylor, Jr., and Nicholas A. Pappas
Paint decoration at Mount Vernon : the revival of eighteenth-century techniques / Matthew J. Mosca
The color of change : a nineteenth-century Massachusetts house / Myron O. Stachiw
An early colonial mural : the conservation of wall paintings / Christy Cunningham-Adams
A Victorian trompe l'oeil : the restoration of distemper paints / Morgan W. Phillips
Analyzing paint samples : investigation and interpretation / Andrea M. Gilmore
Pigments and media : techniques in paint analysis / Eugene Farrell
Painting techniques : surface preparation and application / Brian Powell
A survey of paint technology : the composition and properties of paints / Morgan W. Phillips
Historic and modern oil paints : composition and conservation / Richard Newman
House paint pigments : composition and use, 1600 to 1850 / Richard Newman and Eugene Farrell.
Notes:
Papers from Paint in America--a Symposium on Architectural and Decorative Paints, held in Lexington, Mass., 1989.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 306-311) and index.
ISBN:
0891332553
OCLC:
30031602

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