HOW TO PAINT PERMANENT PICTURES

HOW TO PAINT PERMANENT PICTURES

BY

MAXIMILIAN TOCH

PROFESSOR OF INDUSTRIAL CHEMISTRY, COOPER UNION; MEMBER OF THE FIRM OF TOCH BROTHERS; AUTHOR OF CHEMISTRY AND TECHNOLOGY OF PAINTS; MATERIALS FOR PERMANENT PAINTING, ETC., ETC.

NEW YORK
D. VAN NOSTRAND COMPANY
Eight Warren Street
1922

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

THE observant visitor to the great art galleries is astonished andpained to see the large number of pictures of the highest artisticexcellence gradually being ruined on account of decomposition as shownby fading, darkening, cracking and peeling of the paint films. This isall the more deplorable because the cause of the deterioration is wellknown and pigments, vehicles, canvas, in fact all the materials neededby the painter to make absolutely permanent paintings are equally wellknown and require only intelligent choice and use by the artist.

The author has attempted to give this information in this volume whichis intended to be a popular common sense treatise for all artisticpainters who desire to produce permanent[Pg 6] pictures which mightotherwise in a few short years show most glaring defects.

The author believes that manufacturers of artists’ material should becompelled by law to label every tube of paint as to its permanence andchemical composition so that artists could be assured that they weregetting what the label indicated.

I acknowledge with great gratitude the valuable assistance of Prof.Carel F. L. DeWild in reviewing this manuscript, and for the excellentsuggestions he has given me.

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