{"id":13001,"date":"2015-06-10T09:37:13","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T14:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/?p=13001"},"modified":"2015-06-10T09:37:13","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T14:37:13","slug":"the-uses-of-picture-psotcards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2015\/06\/10\/the-uses-of-picture-psotcards\/","title":{"rendered":"The uses of picture postcards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In her review of, \u201cVan Gogh: Irises and Roses\u201d, the Metropolitan Museum\u2019s exhibit of four still lives painted by Vincent van Gogh in May 1890 using an unstable red lake pigment (\u201cA Study in Scarlet: Evanescence in Bloom\u201d, The New York Times, May 22, 2015), Roberta Smith mentions that a\u00a0slide show which accompanies the exhibit includes postcards of the paintings,\u00a0produced\u00a0over several decades which\u00a0clearly show the fading of the red pigment. Until now, I had not given much consideration to the usefulness of postcards and other inexpensive reproductions as conservation research tools, but from now on I shall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In her review of, \u201cVan Gogh: Irises and Roses\u201d, the Metropolitan Museum\u2019s exhibit of four still lives painted by Vincent van Gogh in May 1890 using an unstable red lake pigment (\u201cA Study in Scarlet: Evanescence in Bloom\u201d, The New York Times, May 22, 2015), Roberta Smith mentions that a\u00a0slide show which accompanies the exhibit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2015\/06\/10\/the-uses-of-picture-psotcards\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The uses of picture postcards&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}