Conservation at American Art

Conservation: Not Your Usual Dental Check-up

October 23, 2012

Conservation Technician Susan Edwards vacuums Tiger by Felipe Archuleta You may not think about the potential dust that could collect in-between the teeth of Tiger by Felipe Archuleta on display in American Art's first floor folk art galleries, but it...

Picture This: Abstract Drawings

September 18, 2012

Paper conservator, Kate Maynor talks about the conservation of Claire Falkenstein's Branding Have you ever thought about the way the paper fibers hold on to ink as you are writing down your grocery or to do list on a sheet...

Conservation: Treating Frederick Eversley's Sculpture

August 2, 2012

Conservator Hugh Shockey works on Eversley's sculpture Untitled. Did you know that sandpaper technology has improved over the past 40 years? Neither did I until I spoke with objects conservator Hugh Shockey about Frederick Eversley's Untitled, a sculpture he was...

Preparing for African American Art: A Conversation with Renée Stout

July 19, 2012

Left: conservator Hugh Shockley talks with artist Renée Stout. Right: Stout's The Colonel's Cabinet Have you ever looked at a work of art and wished you could ask the artist how they made it? For our conservators, speaking to artists...

Art Conservation: The Work of John Rodgers

July 12, 2012

Left: Objects conservator, Helen Ingalls. Center: John Rodgers' The Wounded Scout, a Friend in the Swamp and Taking the Oath and Drawing Rations. Right: Art historian, Ann Wagner. Click on image for larger view. I've always wondered why one of...