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Preserving William H. Johnson’s “Fighters for Freedom”

How do you preserve important paintings to ensure they last into the future? Keara Teeter, the Lunder Fellow in Paintings Conservation at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, explains the two-year process of carefully preserving artworks in William H. Johnson’s “Fighters for Freedom” series. Created in the mid-1940s and showing signs of age, Teeter describes the painstaking steps of treating the works and the careful consideration needed in choosing materials. For more information about the series visit https://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/fighters-for-freedom.

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How do you preserve important paintings to ensure they last into the future? Keara Teeter, the Lunder Fellow in Paintings Conservation at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, explains the two-year process of carefully preserving artworks in William H. Johnson’s “Fighters for Freedom” series. Created in the mid-1940s and showing signs of age, Teeter describes the painstaking steps of treating the works and the careful consideration needed in choosing materials. For more information about the series visit https://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/fighters-for-freedom.