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In Search of Blue Boy’s True Colors
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Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, art historian and journalist, reveals the scholarship and science behind Project Blue Boy, The Huntington’s two-year effort to conserve one of Western Art’s greatest masterpieces, in this annual Founder's Day lecture.
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