They should be listed as oil on linen to reflect their actual fabrication.

  Best,
            Susanne Lambert

Collections Manager/ Registrar
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art

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Subject: Paintings Support Designations

Dear Colleagues:  We're working on a projet where all the paintings in a
collection are listed as "oil on canvas".  However, the majority of the
works are actually oil on linen, heavily impastoed.  Should the
designation be, then, oil on linen, or is oil on canvas generally used?
This should be easy for us to answer, but we can't!  Responses
appreciated.  Best, Geri

Geri Thomas, President
Thomas & Associates, Inc.
www.artstaffing.com

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