Scientific Publications

Recent Scientific Publications (Selected)


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  • J. L. Mass and T. Duncan, “New Advances in Technical Art History”, Appraising Art: The Definitive Guide Volume 2, The Appraisers Association of America, New York, 2024.

  • J. L. Mass, “The Chemistry and Physics of Color in the World’s most Magnificent Gemstones” The Language of Color and Light: A Study of Van Gogh’s The Starry Night and a Gem Star Sapphire and Yellow Diamond, Ed. Benjamin Zucker, in preparation, June 2023.

  • Anaïs Genty-Vincent, Simonetta Fraquelli, Annette King, Allison Langley, Jennifer Mass, Kim Muir, Mina Porell, Marie-Amélie Senot,  Anya Shutova, and Joyce H. Townsend, “Modigliani’s Painted Nudes: a Technical Study”, Tate Papers, v. 35, 2023.

  • Anaïs Genty-Vincent, Marie-Amélie Senot, Jennifer Mass, Anya Shutova, Mina Porell, Allison Langley, Annette King, Joyce H. Townsend, “Modigliani: Works that have paintings beneath the visible surface”, Tate Papers, v. 35, 2023.
  • J.L. Mass, A. Shugar, A.C. Finnefrock, S. Tanimoto, M. Little, R. Stein, E. Archie, “Selenium-based black bronze treatments, as compared to other patination technologies of ancient and historic black bronzes”, Technè: La science au service de l’historoire de l’art et de la préservation des biens culturels, 2023, 55:64-74.
  • J.L. Massand A.C. Finnefrock, “Pigment Analysis of a Landscape on Canvas Attributed to Gustave Courbet”, At the Source, A Courbet Landscape Rediscovered, Exhibition Catalogue, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022.
  • J.L. Mass, R. Pollak, A. Shugar, A. Finnefrock, S. Centeno, and I. Duvernois, “Scientific Study, Condition Challenges, and Attribution Questions in Yves Tanguy’s Oeuvre”, in Analytical Chemistry for the Study of Paintings and the Detection of Forgeries, Eds. Maria Perla Colombini, Austin Nevin, Ilaria Degano, Springer Verlag, 2022, 47-94.
  • J. Farmer, E. Epstein, and J. L. Mass, “Approaches to Current Issues with Art Forgery, Restoration, and Conservation: Legal and Scientific Perspectives”, in Analytical Chemistry for the Study of Paintings and the Detection of Forgeries, Eds. Maria Perla Colombini, Austin Nevin, Ilaria Degano, Springer Verlag, 2022.

  • J. L. Mass, V. Sigalas, and A. Shugar “The Post Eighteenth-Century Decoration of Meissen Porcelain Figures: A Collaboration between Art History and Science” All Walks of Life: A Journey with the Alan Shimmerman Collection, Meissen Porcelain Figures of the Eighteenth Century, V. Sigalas and M. Chilton Eds., Arnoldsche Verlag, 2022, 564-567.

  • J. L. Mass, V. Sigalas, and A. Shugar “A Scientific Assessment of the Meissen Porcelain Figures and Groups in the Shimmerman Collection” All Walks of Life: A Journey with the Alan Shimmerman Collection, Meissen Porcelain Figures of the Eighteenth Century, V. Sigalas and M. Chilton Eds., Arnoldsche Verlag, 2022, 568-600.

  • A. Elgammal, A. Finnefrock, “Is AI really ready to solve the problems that have had art historians stumped”, Apollo Magazine, 11 November 2021.

  • J. Mass, “Picasso in pixels, Exhibition Review, Rethinking Guernica at the Reina Sofia”, Apollo Magazine, June 2021.  

  • E. S. Uffelman, J. L. Mass, et al. “X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy in painting analysis: undergraduate classroom, teaching laboratory, and research”, ACS Symposium Series, Vol. 1386, American Chemical Society Publications, 2021.

  • B. Buckley, A. Shutov, and J. L. Mass, “A Technical Study of The Large Bathers”, in Cezanne in the Barnes Foundation, Eds. Andre Dombrowski, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, Rizzoli Electa, New York, 2021.

  • B.D.A. Levin, A.C. Finnefrock, A.M. Hull, M.G. Thomas, K.X. Nguyen, M.E. Holtz, U. Plahter, I. Grimstad, J.L. Mass, D.A. Muller, “Revealing the nanoparticle composition of Edvard Munch’s The Scream, and implications for paint alteration in iconic early 20th century artworks”, arXiv preprint, 2019, arXiv:1909.01933.
  • C.W. Sawyer, B.H. Suffield, A.C. Finnefrock, H.M. Billings, E.S. Uffelman, J.R. Zoeller, M.S. Dombrowski, J.K. Delaney, K.A. Dooley, J.L. Mass, J. Samonina-Kosicka, M.M. Whitesell “A John White Alexander Painting at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts: A Comparison of Imaging Technologies for Resolving a Painting under Another Painting”, Journal of the American Institute for Conservation, Special Issue, Reflectance Hyperspectral Imaging to Support Documentation and Conservation of 2D Artworks, 2019, 58:37-53.
  • J.L. Mass, D.A.L. Barnaby, K.X. Xguyen, M.E. Holtz, M.G. Thomas, E.S. Tveit, A.C. Finnefrock, R. Opila, T. Beebe, M. Wiggins, D.A. Muller, “Understanding and Predicting Cadmium Yellow Pigment Failure Mechanisms in the Works of the Early Modernists Using STEM Methodologies”, Microscopy and Microanalysis, 2018, 24-S1:2122-2123.
  • Patricia A. Favero, Jennifer L. Mass, John K. Delaney, Arthur R. Woll, Alyssa M. Hull, Kathryn A. Dooley, and Adam C. Finnefrock, “Reflectance imaging spectroscopy and synchrotron radiation X-ray fluorescence mapping used in a technical study of The Blue Room by Pablo Picasso” Heritage Science, 2017, 5:13.