Word: presswood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clay on which the picture was originally painted is then scraped from the back side and the inner surface of the paint is cleansed. A new base of clay on presswood is affixed and the muslin-tissue support is dissolved from the face. Thus only the pigment, about a sixteenth of an inch thick, is kept intact during the process of restoration...
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