Oil Paints • NIB - 3 Tubes • Winsor Newton • 1990 • Cadmium Orange

Description

Around 1990 Winsor & Newton and other artist supply companies announced they were going to cut back or even remove completely the heavy metal content in their artists oil paint.  Metals like cobalt, barium, titanium and cadmium are traditional in oil colors, but have always been dangerous.  Heavy metal contribute to colors by intensifying them.  Thus Cadmium Orange in the tubes shown here is much more intense an orange than the substitute without cadmium.
I bought a large supply of oil colors that would undergo this change - to have them on hand for the future.  I put them away and forgot them.  This box of three 37 ml tubes was purchased at Pearl Paint Company on Canal Street in NYC in 1990.
I will be selling boxes of these colors in the upcoming weeks, if anyone wants them.  If you want the most intense colors oil paints can bring - these are the best.
I paid - a tube back then, so I will start the bidding at 20. per box.
Shipping 18.00.
for the first box of 3 tubes.  After that, add 8.00 per box.  (so - five boxes shipped would be 50.00)
Will always combine shipping.  Please check out the scan.
here is a statement about oil colors from W & N
Winsor Newton statement
“Cadmium pigments are much loved by artists due to their ability to deliver intensely bright, lightfast results. But cadmium is a heavy metal and although there is no globally harmonised view, there are some concerns about its safety. Areas such as California require a warning statement to be shown on every cadmium paint, while others, such as the European Union, consider it safe. The level of soluble cadmium in the pigments is so low that no hazard warnings are needed and they pose no greater risk after swallowing or breathing in than other pigment types. Cadmium pigments are restricted for certain applications but this restriction does not apply to artists’ colours.
Our cadmium-free colours hold the Approved Product (AP) seal and are completely safe to use.