Picture This: George Ault and 1940s America

Paintings Conservator, Amber Kerr-Allison does a final inspection of George Ault's painting Bright Light at Russell's Corners with a UV flashlight just before the show opens.

Paintings Conservator, Amber Kerr-Allison does a final inspection of George Ault's painting Bright Light at Russell's Corners with a UV flashlight just before the show opens.

SAAM Staff
Blog Editor
March 10, 2011

Paintings Conservator, Amber Kerr-Allison does a final inspection of George Ault's painting Bright Light at Russell's Corners with a UV flashlight just before the show opens. American Art's exhibition To Make a World: George Ault and 1940s America opens tomorrow, March 11, and runs through September 5. Exhibition curator Alexander Nemerov will be speaking tomorrow evening in the museum’s McEvoy Auditorium about Ault and his contemporaries. The lecture begins at 7 p.m., is free, and will be webcast live.

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