JAIC 1991, Volume 30, Number 2, Article 2 (pp. 125 to 144)
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JAIC 1991, Volume 30, Number 2, Article 2 (pp. 125 to 144)

A STUDY OF THE MATERIALS USED BY MEDIEVAL PERSIAN PAINTERS

NANCY PURINTON, & MARK WATTERS



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AUTHOR INFORMATION

NANCY PURINTION graduated from the University of Delaware/Winterthur Art Conservation Program. She has had internships at the Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, and at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. At the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, she held the position of conservator for the collection. She is presently a conservator at the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts in Philadelphia. Address: Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts, 264 S. 23d Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 19103.

MARK WATTERS took his bachelor's degree in art from Stanford University in 1975. He specialized in paper conservation at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, taking his master's degree there in 1980. He interned at the Intermuseum Conservation Center in Oberlin, Ohio. More recently his work in the paper conservation studio at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art was supported by a National Endowment for the Arts grant. Currently he works in private practice with colleague Robert Aitchison. Address: Aitchison and Watters Inc., Conservators of Art on Paper, 740 North La Brea Avenue, Los Angeles, Calif. 90038.


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