Word: ostendorf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week Dayton fervently wished it had been a little less enthusiastic. A commercial artist named Lloyd Ostendorf had seen a reproduction of the painting in a Dayton newspaper and thought it looked vaguely familiar. He went to the museum, took a good look, and calmly announced his verdict: the portrait was not a painting at all, but an ingenious oil tracing over a print of the famed "Cooper Union" photograph of Lincoln taken by Matthew Brady in 1860. Chemicals were applied, a bit of the oil wiped off, and sure enough, hidden under the paint was a print...
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