But this is more than just painting names on bedsheets and wagging fingers at bemused millionaires in shorts.
The enigmatic shadow in a painting named "V" revealed itself as an outline of a female nude.
The museum got "Fête à Torcy," a 1952 painting named for a village outside Paris where the artist spent the summer.
In the two months that she spent there, she became friends with a professor of painting named Julie Burleigh, a single mother from a prominent family in small-town Louisiana.
The investigated painting, named as "The woodman" by its owners, is in process of authenticity verification as a Thomas Gainsborough (XVIII century) painting and is under investigation at the Laboratory of Conservation Science LACICORR), CECOR/EBA/UFMG.
Overall, from the Tang Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty, over 20,000 poems were written about Huangshan, and a school of painting named after it.
"'Optimistic yellow' is the paint name".
There, on a building selling groceries and liquor, he saw the ornately painted name "Fred Schierberg".
The Bogles all had neatly painted names, beginning with B, including Brian, Beatle, Boris, and Bruce.
There's the high-style and pricey route, like that English company, Farrow & Ball, and its Evelyn Waugh paint names like Dead Salmon, Arsenic and Churlish Green, for $90 a gallon.
