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DIED. LUIS MARDEN, 90, genteel, globe-trotting explorer and photojournalist for National Geographic whose expeditions, which often involved disappearing for months at a time, produced numerous gems of reportage; in Arlington, Va. Marden arrived at the magazine in 1934 at 21, and over the next 64 years he retraced the transatlantic route of Christopher Columbus, unearthed dinosaur eggs in Madagascar, discovered the wreck of the H.M.S. Bounty in the South Pacific and helped pioneer the use of underwater photography...
...Marden was devastated by the damage, and he—along with the Whitney—immediately called Mancusi-Ungaro, who interviewed him for an hour-and-a-half about how he created the work before she tackled how best to repair...
Mancusi-Ungaro stands next to a 1980 Brice Marden painting (or rather a part of it, for the piece is in several panels) marked by three solid color fields of orange and blue...
Repairs will attempt not to recreate the painting with the same technique Marden originally used, but instead to make the piece look identical to its condition before the accident...
Mancusi-Ungaro’s efforts in the Marden restoration have also aided another aspect of her work. She expresses excitement that Marden saved several of the wooden boards that were adjacent to the panels when he painted them in 1980—and that he’s planning on donating them to her collection...