Physical Properties of Modern Artists’ Oil Paints: Recent CMOP progress at the Getty Conservation Institute and CATS

In May 2017, CMOP researcher Cecil Krarup Andersen, assistant professor at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation, visited GCI for three weeks to partner with GCI scientists Alan Phenix, Michał Łukomski and Ashley Freeman(Fig. 1) on preliminary investigations into ways of characterizing the mechanical properties of modern oil paints in the set of samples under study by the CMOP group.