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

Contents: Historical perspectives. Colonial and federal America: accounts of early painting practices / Abbott Lowell Cummings and Richard M. Candee -- House painting in Britain: sources for American paint, 1615 to 1830 / Ian C. Bristow -- Nineteenth-century paints: a documentary approach / Roger W. Moss -- Case studies in paint research. The Early American palette: colonial paint colors 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 Cunninghman-Adams -- A Victorian trompe l'oeil: the restoration of distemper paints / Morgan W. Phillips -- Modern paint analysis and restoration. 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 -- The Nature of paints. 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

New York : John Wiley, 1994

1994

328 p. : ill. (some col.), col. ports. ; 27 cm.

Papers from Paint in America--a Symposium on Architectural and Decorative Paints, held in Lexington, Mass., 1989

Includes bibliographical references and index