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ew. Two years later the family put his collection of paintings up at auction, with instructions
to a friend to buy in the Leonardo for them. This was done, with the result that the painting
has never left the Vernon family.
For the first 136 years of Lisa's residence in the U.S. she remained quietly in the Vernon
family, unseen by the public, almost unknown to the art world. Then in 1933 the painting
was sent to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, for a careful cleaning. At that
time technicians at Fogg took X-rays which, they reported, proved the ancient canvas to be
definitely of the period when Leonardo was known to have painted the Mona Lisa. The canvas
was relined and restretched, and was carefully cleaned to bring out its original colors.
In 1948 Dr. Thomas MacOugbtry Judson, for many years Curator of the Cigognara Collection
of the Vatican, returned to this country and heard of the painting. During his long
Vatican curatorship, Judson made Leonardo his principal hobby and study. Working with
Italy's brilliant Leonardo expert Adolfo Venturi, Judson has painstakingly catalogued many of
Leonardo's lesser-known works and published a monograph on possible secondary versions of
Leonardo's paintings. He went to Dartmouth College, where Lisa hung in the borne of the
VIEW OF THE ARNO VALLEY, Leonardo's first dated work, August 5, 1473.
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Object Description
| Exhibition | Vernon Mona Lisa |
| Artist(s) | Leonardo da Vinci |
| Title | The Vernon Mona Lisa |
| View | Catalog |
| Year | 1964 |
| Decade(s) | 1960s |
| Exhibition Dates | 1964 July 9 - August 2 |
| Description | Catalog accompanying the exhibition of the same name. |
| Catalog Format |
book catalogue (exhibition) |
| Catalog Information | 24 pages, some color |
| Published | 1964 |
| Catalog Description | Produced by Otis Art Associates. Foreward by Andreas Andersen; essay by Wayne Long; catalog design by David Green. |
| Catalog Contributor(s) |
Andersen, Andreas S. Green, David Long, Wayne |
| Gallery | Otis Art Institute of Los Angeles County Gallery |
| Media |
Drawing Painting |
| ImageID | monalisa-1964-catalog |
| Rights | Copyright Otis College of Art and Design |
| Collection | Ben Maltz Gallery Exhibition Archive |
Description
| Title | Page 13 |
| Full Text of PDF | ew. Two years later the family put his collection of paintings up at auction, with instructions to a friend to buy in the Leonardo for them. This was done, with the result that the painting has never left the Vernon family. For the first 136 years of Lisa's residence in the U.S. she remained quietly in the Vernon family, unseen by the public, almost unknown to the art world. Then in 1933 the painting was sent to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, for a careful cleaning. At that time technicians at Fogg took X-rays which, they reported, proved the ancient canvas to be definitely of the period when Leonardo was known to have painted the Mona Lisa. The canvas was relined and restretched, and was carefully cleaned to bring out its original colors. In 1948 Dr. Thomas MacOugbtry Judson, for many years Curator of the Cigognara Collection of the Vatican, returned to this country and heard of the painting. During his long Vatican curatorship, Judson made Leonardo his principal hobby and study. Working with Italy's brilliant Leonardo expert Adolfo Venturi, Judson has painstakingly catalogued many of Leonardo's lesser-known works and published a monograph on possible secondary versions of Leonardo's paintings. He went to Dartmouth College, where Lisa hung in the borne of the VIEW OF THE ARNO VALLEY, Leonardo's first dated work, August 5, 1473. , • If ... ~, ,.,_ 'I r J r 1 I I ' ' ~j'/ (~"'1. . '' ._ |
