In the spring of 2001, the Busch-Reisinger Museum will host an unrelated Mondrian exhibit, called "Piet Mondrian: The Transatlantic Paintings." The exhibit will focus on about 15 paintings that Mondrian began in Paris but finished in New York. He added new elements, like "boogie woogie," that he discovered in New York.
Cooper and Ron Spronk, the curator for research at the Straus Center for Conservation, are the curators of the exhibit. They will research the changes Mondrian made to the paintings with the technology at the Straus Center, according to Cooper.
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"It's a perfect little test case to find out how these technical analysis techniques can be used with modern paintings," he said.