Forbes Pigment Labs: MFA-Boston
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MFA Scientific Research Lab
The Scientific Research lab at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston began in 1929 by William J. Young, a British scientist and conservator. Young worked closely with the scientists and conservators at the Fogg Art Museum, Rutherford Gettens and George Stout, often helping with spectroscopic analysis.
The MFA was among the first in the world to introduce a modest in-house scientific research facility. Today, the Scientific Research Laboratory employs some of the same highly sensitive instruments often used in forensic science to study microscopic samples taken from works of art. The research scientists play a pivotal role in conservation and curatorial research, using chemistry, biology, engineering, physics, geology and other disciplines to provide not only detailed information about materials and techniques found in artworks, but also diagnostic information for conservators developing treatment and preservation strategies.
Forbes Pigment collection set
Forbes kept sets of artists' materials at the Fogg Museum lab as well as a private collection at his home. After Forbes death in 1969, a team of conservators, Arthur Beale, Rhoda Burden, and Brigitte Smith, diligently took stock of Forbes private collection of artists materials. Portions of pigments were subdivided to create reference collections at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Intermuseum Conservation Laboratory, Cleveland OH (formerly Oberlin OH). Samples remaining in the bottles were then sent to Institute of Fine Arts, Conservation Center, New York University, New York NY.
Pages in category "Forbes Pigment Labs: MFA-Boston"
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- 6.02.70 Rosso Angelica fr. Verona grd. in Bologna
- 6.02.70? Rosso Angelico
- 6.02.71 Rouge Indien
- 6.02.73 Oxide di Ferro
- 6.02.75 Tierra roja
- 6.02.76 Ocra roja
- 6.02.77 Red Earth
- 6.02.79 Indian Red
- 6.02.82 Venetian Red
- 6.02.83 Oxide di Ferro
- 6.02.91 Indian Red
- 6.02.x Bole
- 6.02.x Cinabrese
- 6.02.x Cinabrese (Sinopia and white)
- 6.02.x Constantinople
- 6.02.x Haematite
- 6.02.x Haematite crystals
- 6.02.x Hematite
- 6.02.x Indian Red
- 6.02.x Indian Red imitation
- 6.02.x Ocre rouge
- 6.02.x Pozzuoli red
- 6.02.x Red Earth
- 6.02.x Rossa Angelico
- 6.02.x Rosso Angelico
- 6.02.x Terra ocra
- 6.02.x Terra Rosa di Venezia
- 6.02.x Terra Rossa
- 6.02.x Terra Rossa di Spagna urbino
- 6.02.x Terra Rossa di Verona
- 6.02.x Turgite
- 6.02.x Venetian Red
- 6.03.12? Pink Madder
- 6.03.13 NYU (Madder
- 6.03.13? Naturale Morello di sale
- 6.03.26 Rose Madder
- 6.03.28 Orange Madder
- 6.03.31 Laque fine garance
- 6.03.33 Rose Pink
- 6.03.34 Burnt Alizarin Crimson
- 6.03.45 Brazilwood cuttings
- 6.03.48 Purple Madder
- 6.03.49 Brown Madder
- 6.03.55 Garance Rose Dores
- 6.03.58 Purple Madder
- 6.03.60 Logwood
- 6.03.x Alzarin lake
- 6.03.x Cochineal
- 6.03.x Dragon's blood
- 6.03.x Extract of Vermilion
- 6.03.x Extract Quercitron bark
- 6.03.x Extract Quercitron Bark
- 6.03.x Indian lake
- 6.03.x Lacca Chiara a calce
- 6.03.x Laccao Calee
- 6.03.x Laque de Garance
- 6.03.x Madder lake
- 6.03.x Madder red
- 6.03.x Probably Indian lake
- 6.03.x Rose Fonce
- 6.03.x Rose Madder
- 6.03.x Rubens Madder
- 6.03.x Sang de dragon en powder
- 6.03.x Scarlet Madder
- 6.03.x(23) Laque de Garance
- 6.03.x(23) Laque fine gaen
- 6.04.09 Rhodamine (Rose Toner) C26H26N2O3Cl
- 6.04.x Rhodamine
- 6.04.x Rhodamine B example
- 6.04.x Uranine
- 6.05.01 Vermilion (Eng.) HgS
- 6.05.03 Cinnabar (200 screen)
- 6.05.04? Or 6.05.08? Vermilion
- 6.05.05 Vermilion
- 6.05.09 Vermilion
- 6.05.09? Vermilion
- 6.05.x Bay State Vermilion
- 6.05.x Burnt Orange Vermilion
- 6.05.x Chinese Vermilion
- 6.05.x Cinapro d'Ollanda
- 6.05.x Cinnabar
- 6.05.x English Vermilion
- 6.05.x Orange Vermilion
- 6.05.x Scarlet Vermilion
- 6.06.02? Ultramarine red
- 6.06.x Ultramarine pink
- 6.07.03 Cadmium red-light CdS(Se)
- 6.07.04 Cadmium red-medium light CdS(Se)
- 6.07.05 Cadmium red-medium CdS(Se)
- 6.07.07 Cadmium red-deep CdS(Se)
- 6.07.11 Cadmium Barium red-light CdS(Se) and BaSO4
- 6.07.14 Cadmium Barium red-deep CdS(Se) and BaSO4
- 6.07.15 Cadmium Barium red-maroon CdS(Se) and BaSO4
- 6.07.20 Cadmium Scarlet
- 6.07.x Cadmium extra deep
- 6.07.x Cadmium Red
- 6.07.x Cadmium Red Deep
- 6.07.x Cadmium Red Light
- 6.08.03 Persian Gulf Red (Mapico Red
- 6.08.04 Spanish Red (Mapico medium)
- 6.08.05 Synthetic Venetian Red
- 6.08.09 Mars Orange
- 6.08.13 Mars Red
- 6.08.14 Mars Orange
- 6.08.x Mars Orange
- 6.08.x Synopia
- 6.09.03 Minium
- 6.09.06 Red Lead
- 6.09.x Light Red
- 6.09.x Light Venetian Red
- 6.09.x Minium?
- 6.09.x Red Earth
- 6.09.x Red jasper
- 6.09.x Red Lead
- 6.20.04? San go
- 6.20.11 Kodao Shu (Burnt agaguchi) vermilion 15A
- 6.20.12 Shudo (light red
- 6.20.13 Benigara
- 6.20.14 Tai sha matsu
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8
- 8.01.01 Pompeian blue
- 8.01.12 Blue verditer
- 8.01.x Azure
- 8.01.x Azurite
- 8.01.x Bleu pompeii
- 8.02.12 French ultramarine
- 8.02.15 Permanent Blue
- 8.02.18 Ultramarine ash
- 8.02.20 Ultramarine ash
- 8.02.22 French Ultramarine
- 8.02.x French Ultramarine
- 8.02.x French Ultramarine ?
- 8.02.x Ultramarine
- 8.02.x Ultramarine ash
- 8.02.x Ultramarine gray
- 8.03.01 Smalt
- 8.03.02 Smalt
- 8.03.03 Smalt
- 8.03.09 Cobalt blue
- 8.03.12 Cobalt Blue
- 8.03.13 Cobalt Blue
- 8.03.14 Cerulean Blue
- 8.03.15 Cerulean Blue
- 8.03.17 Cerulean Blue
- 8.03.23? or 19? Cerulean Blue
- 8.03.25 Cobalt blue
- 8.03.x Cerulean
- 8.03.x Cobalt blue
- 8.03.x Cobalt Blue
- 8.04.x Prussian blue
- 8.06.01 Cyanine Blue
- 8.06.02 Cyanine
- 8.08.01 Indigo
- 8.08.05? Indigo
- 8.08.x Indaco
- 8.10.x Mineral blue
- 8.10.x Verde Azzurro
- 8.20.10 Usu Gunjo
- 8.20.x Byaku Gunjo
- 8.20.x Byaku roku
- 8.20.x Gunjo
- 8.20.x Ilshida
- 8.20.x Ishida
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- 9.01.01? Lucerne Verde
- 9.01.01? Terra Verde
- 9.01.06 Terre Verde
- 9.01.07 Terra Verde Arturo del Zio
- 9.01.09 Terra verde (Biovanni) of Verona
- 9.01.10 Terre verte
- 9.01.13 Terre Verte
- 9.01.14 Terre Verde
- 9.01.15 Terra Verde
- 9.01.16 Terre Verde
- 9.01.18? Terra Verde
- 9.01.20 Terre Verde
- 9.01.21? Terre Verde
- 9.01.25 Terre Verte
- 9.01.26 Terre Verde naturale (Said to be terre verde naturale I suspect it is not)
- 9.01.29 Terra verde di Verona
- 9.01.31 or 32 Terre Verte
- 9.01.x Terre Verde
- 9.01.x Terre verte
- 9.01.x Thioflavine
- 9.01.x Verde Veigone
- 9.01.x, 378 (MFA) Terre Verte
- 9.02.04? Malachite
- 9.02.07 Malachite green
- 9.02.08? Malachite green
- 9.03.01? Verdigris
- 9.03.02? or 04? Verdigris
- 9.03.x Verdigris
- 9.03.x Verdigris? dissolved in balsam
- 9.05.03 Cobalt Green light
- 9.05.04 Cobalt Green medium
- 9.05.07 Cobalt Green
- 9.05.x Cobalt Green dark