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38: Edward's buried paint

Lateral with Tom Scott

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The History of Brown Paint

In 1881, British visual artist Edward Byrne Jones was hosting a garden party. He rushed into his house, grabbed a metal tube of brown paint, and buried it in his lawn. His work was never quite the same again. Did he like use the color at all after? That's what you could infer from the question.

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