Barry bauman cleans and repairs valuable paintings for universities and museums. when he was asked to work on a robert reid painting, he realized he needed to remove the canvas from its frame. underneath the canvas, he discovered a second painting, also by reid. no one knows why the artist hid the first painting. even stranger, the same thing had happened to bauman two years earlier. while cleaning a t.c. steele painting, he discovered a second work beneath the top canvas.