Details | See how art conservators fight the ravages of time on paintings in SAAM’s collection. Keara Teeter, a 2019–20 Samuel H. Kress fellow in paintings conservation, explains her conservation treatment of William H. Johnson’s iconic Fighters for Freedom series. Image credit: Keara Teeter treating William H. Johnson’s Historical Scene with Mary McLeod Bethune, ca. 1945, oil on paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Harmon Foundation. Photo by Lou Molnar |
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