Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Preservation Press, National Trust for Historic Preservation, [1994]
©1994

Description:

318 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Papers from Paint in America--a Symposium on Architectural and Decorative Paints, held in Lexington, Mass., 1989.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-311) and index.
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.
Also issued online.

Summary:

"Since the time of the Lascaux caves (ca. 10,000 B.C.), people have been decorating and protecting their shelters with paint. The painter, according to one Victorian writer, was the most welcome of workers. The use of paint in the United States to achieve these twin goals - beauty and practicality - is definitively described in Paint in America." "Leading architectural historians, paint conservators, and paint investigators describe historic paints and painting techniques, recount the process of paint research at sites such as Mount Vernon and Colonial Williamsburg, 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. With its 115 illustrations (90 in color), Paint in America is an indispensable guide for everyone interested in restoring exteriors and interiors to their historically appropriate colors."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0891332553
9780891332558
047114410X
9780471144106
0471144118 (pbk.)
9780471144113 (pbk.)
0891332634
9780891332633

Subject:

Paint Congresses.
Color Conservation and restoration United States Congresses.
Peinture (Produit chimique) Congrès.
Couleur Conservation et restauration États-Unis Congrès.
Color Conservation and restoration.
Paint.
United States.

Form/genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

Moss, Roger W., 1940-
Paint in America--a Symposium on Architectural and Decorative Paints (1989 : Lexington, Mass.)

Colors of historic buildings

Holdings:

Location: Library main 92774
Call No.: ID TP934.P317; ID:95-B827
Status: Available