{"id":5000,"date":"2011-03-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/2011\/03\/george-inness-unexpected-1851-masterpiece-is-rediscovered-and-its-beauty-restored-2\/"},"modified":"2011-03-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T05:00:00","slug":"george-inness-unexpected-1851-masterpiece-is-rediscovered-and-its-beauty-restored-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2011\/03\/08\/george-inness-unexpected-1851-masterpiece-is-rediscovered-and-its-beauty-restored-2\/","title":{"rendered":"George Inness’ unexpected 1851 masterpiece is rediscovered, and its beauty restored"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maybe it shouldn’t be a surprise that a masterpiece in the basement goes unnoticed for more than half a century. It is a wonder, however, when a neglected nothing, a dirty ragamuffin of a painting, is suddenly noticed amid a quarter-million stored confreres – is pulled out, looked at, looked at more closely, and finally recognized for what it really is beneath the soot, the grime, the clouded varnish: a treasure.<\/p>\n

This is precisely what happened with George Inness’ 1851 landscape Twilight on the Campagna<\/i>, acquired by the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1945, [and was put in storage soon after, and forgotten until 2005.]…<\/p>\n

Conservator Judy Dion<\/b> managed the cleaning, and what emerged stunned all involved…Beneath the varnish, the canvas was covered by a thick layer of what is called bleached shellac, probably applied by Inness himself; while the shellac was discolored in some spots, the surface of the painting was extremely well preserved – somewhat unusual for Inness’ work – which allowed his rendering of light to shine…<\/p>\n

Read the full article in the digital Philadelphia Inquirer.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Maybe it shouldn’t be a surprise that a masterpiece in the basement goes unnoticed for more than half a century. It is a wonder, however, when a neglected nothing, a dirty ragamuffin of a painting, is suddenly noticed amid a quarter-million stored confreres – is pulled out, looked at, looked at more closely, and finally … Continue reading “George Inness’ unexpected 1851 masterpiece is rediscovered, and its beauty restored”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5000","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\/5000","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\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}