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March 22, 1968
G.W.V.S. Art Museum

Re: "Under the Winter Moon", by George [Robert] Strong Woodward; Oil on Canvas, 40 1/8 x 50 1/8; signed, lower R. George [Robert] Strong Woodward.

Report continued (after treatment)
After a variety of test, the most successful treatment (for wax impregnation of the canvas, painting and the ground, and, for flattening the cupped crackle) chosen was that of standard wax-resin lining; with special attention to complete impregnation, with melted wax, with the painting emsemble, and sufficient protection of the high impasti from crushing during pressure application.

The painting, after remounting, was surface cleaned with suitable solvents, and a layer of varnish, dammar in turpentine, was applied by brush. No other resin was sufficiently "wetting". The painting cannot be cleaned further; by solution of the discoloring film, because of mutual solubility of paint and varnish.

Alan Theilker

Note: as the painting ages, insolubility of the paint in oil will increase. General varnish removal would then be possible.
A.T.