Program

Research Programs: Basic Research

Period of Performance

3/1/1971 - 8/31/1972

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$14,353.00 (approved)
$14,353.00 (awarded)


Techniques and Materials in Paintings from the Upper Hudson Valley 1700-1750

FAIN: RO-10983-71

Unaffiliated independent scholar
Eleanor S. Quandt (Project Director: March 1971 to present)

To apply the scientific approach and analytical methods of the art conservation profession to long-standing questions of how c. 150 important early paintings--the first "school" of American art--relate to one another, who the painters were, where they came from and how they worked.