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When this next painting came to me my first
reaction was that it could not be done.
But then I thought, I know we can get the
paint bonded back on the canvas, so if we
can get all the loose pieces to fit where
they belong, all we have to do is replace
what is missing. Chris Nau, one of the talented
newer members of our staff, sat down with
tweezers and spent a few hours moving hundreds
of little paint fragments back where they
belonged. Hot wax was dripped over the entire
surface of the painting to hold the fragments
in place until we could transfer the painting
to our vacuum table, where the paint film
was securely re-bonded to the canvas. The
completion of this job was a true team effort,
lead by Jackie Trombley and assisted by
Grace Lee and Jonny White. Chris Nau did
the inpainting. The artist is E. A. Page.
Courtesy Swampscott Public
Library
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