Paint in America: The Colors of Historic Buildings

Book

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Historic Charleston Foundation

Name/Title

Paint in America: The Colors of Historic Buildings

Entry/Object ID

2006.002.0208

Secondary Title

Colors of Historic Buildings

Description

Leading architectural historians, paint conservators, and paint investigators describe historic paints and painting techniques, recount the process of paint research, explain modern paint analysis, and outline the basic nature of paints. Special sections present a newly authenticated palette of colonial paint colors as well as a list of the most common pigments used from 1600 to 1850. 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. 318 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 26 cm.

Collection

Historic Charleston Foundation Library

Acquisition

Accession

2006.002.

Source or Donor

New Library Catalog Records (2006)

Acquisition Method

Found in Collection

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Technology, Paints, pigments, varnishes, etc., Paint, Paint--Conservation and restoration, Color--Conservation and restoration, House painting--Conservation and restoration

Book Details

Author

Moss, Roger W., 1940-

Publisher

Preservation Press

Place Published

Location

Washington, DC

Date Published

1994

Call No.

TP934 .P317 1994

ISBN

0-89133-255-3

LCCN

94-7463

Notes

Copy No.: 1

Location

Location

Building

Missroon Library

Category

Permanent

Date

February 7, 2023

Location

Building

Staff Borrowed

Date

December 19, 2006

Notes

Notes: Fielding

Location

Building

Library

Category

Permanent

Relationships

Related Entries

Notes

1428, 1449, 2005.003.0235, 2006.002.0179, 2006.002.0209, 2006.002.0271, 2008.002.0202, 2009.001.2, 2009.002.033, 2011.002.064

General Notes

Note

Notes: Rober W. Moss, editor. 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. Status: Shelf

Created By

admin@catalogit.app

Create Date

August 22, 2006

Updated By

sferguson@historiccharleston.org

Update Date

April 5, 2023