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In the United States, the development of conservation can be traced to the Fogg Art Museum, and Edward Waldo Forbes, the Director of the Fogg from 1909 to 1944.

He encouraged technical investigation, and was Chairman of the Advisory Committee for the first technical journal, Technical Studies, in the Field of the Fine Arts, published by the Fogg from 1932 to 1942.

Importantly he also brought onto the museum staff chemists.

Rutherford John Gettens was the first chemist in the U. S. to be permanently employed by an art museum.

He worked with George L. Stout, the founder and first editor of Technical Studies.

Gettens and Stout co-authored Painting Materials: A Short Encyclopaedia, first published in 1942 and reprinted in 1966.

This compendium is still cited regularly.

Only a few dates and descriptions in Gettens ' and Stout's book are now outdated.