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2024, “Endangered Art: Reclaiming a Legacy”
David Johnson was a 19th-century American artist associated with the second generation of Hudson River School painters. His early landscapes were typically panoramas, rock studies, or forest interiors as in Catskill Mountains.
Conservators cleaned Catskill Mountains and added a new protective varnish. The painting was previously in a gray-painted wood frame, which overpowered its atmospheric beauty. It was given a different period-appropriate frame that better complemented the painting.