Peter Himmelstein,
paintings conservator at Appelbaum & Himmelstein Conservators and Consultants in New York City, works for individuals and small institutions, noting that some clients pay out of pocket, whereas others receive grants to fund the conservation.
Not exact matches
«If the top layer [of
paint] were completely undamaged, it would be impossible to see this,» says Ian McClure, an art
conservator at Yale.
Scientific examinations have also provided insight into materials and techniques of a 17th century
painting long thought to be by an anonymous Spanish artist, bolstering evidence that the
painting could be an early work by Diego Velazquez, according to Ian McClure, the Susan Morse Hilles chief
conservator at the Yale University Art Gallery.
When a vandal slashed Rembrandt's The Night Watch,
conservators at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam matched pigments and
painting strokes to stitch the masterpiece together again.
But its sorry state also made the piece, part of Reinhardt's «Black Square» series
painted between 1960 and 1966, the perfect specimen for art
conservators at the Guggenheim, and its Manhattan neighbor, MoMA — The Museum of Modern Art, eager to test out the latest restoration technologies.
Looking
at the
painted figures offers a tour through artistic life in the 20th century; one encounters artists such as Andy Warhol and Robert Smithson, and Metropolitan Museum
conservator Henry Geldzahler.
The work's time
at the Getty also allowed for extensive study and research by a range of experts led by Getty
conservators and scientists and including Jay Krueger, the National Gallery of Art's head of
painting conservation, and John Delaney, the National Gallery of Art's senior imaging scientist.
Indira Allegra, artist indiraallegra.com Beth Bird, documentary filmmaker and PhD candidate in the Department of Film and Media
at the University of California, Berkeley Robin Clark, Director of the Artist Initiative, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Gregory G. Geiger, artist gregorygeiger.net Maria Elena González, artist and associate professor, Sculpture and New Genres
at the San Francisco Art Institute Tim Hyde, artist and assistant professor, Department of Art and Art History, University of California, Davis timhyde.info Amanda Hunter Johnson,
conservator, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Tomoko Kanamitsu, program associate, Higher and Continuing Education, Education and Public Practice, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Emily Liebert, associate curator of Contemporary Art, Cleveland Museum of Art Peggy Phelan, Ann O'Day Maples Chair in the Arts, Professor of Theater & Performance Studies and English, Stanford University Sarah Roberts, Andrew W. Mellon Associate Curator of
Painting and Sculpture, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Kaeleigh Thorp, graduate student in Museum Studies
at the University of San Francisco Meredith George Van Dyke, curatorial assistant,
Painting and Sculpture, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art John Zarobell, associate professor and undergraduate director of International Studies
at the University of San Francisco
Indira Allegra, artist Beth Bird, documentary filmmaker and Ph.D candidate in the Department of Film and Media
at the University of California, Berkeley Robin Clark, director of the Artist Initiative, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Gregory G. Geiger, artist Maria Elena González, artist and associate professor, Sculpture and New Genres,
at the San Francisco Art Institute Tim Hyde, artist and assistant professor, Department of Art and Art History, University of California, Davis Amanda Hunter Johnson,
conservator, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Tomoko Kanamitsu, program associate, Higher and Continuing Education, Education and Public Practice, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Emily Liebert, associate curator of Contemporary Art, Cleveland Museum of Art Peggy Phelan, Ann O'Day Maples Chair in the Arts, Professor of Theater & Performance Studies and English, Stanford University Sarah Roberts, Andrew W. Mellon Associate Curator of
Painting and Sculpture, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Kaeleigh Thorp, graduate student in Museum Studies
at the University of San Francisco Meredith George Van Dyke, curatorial assistant,
Painting and Sculpture, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art John Zarobell, associate professor and undergraduate director of International Studies
at the University of San Francisco
Join Jim Coddington, Chief
Conservator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and Mark Leonard, Chief
Conservator at the Dallas Museum of Art, for a discussion on the field of
paintings conservation.
Residing in New Orleans since 2008, she has worked as a
painting conservator, and for the honors program
at Tulane University.
In this video, Norton Simon Curator Gloria Williams Sander interviews Yvonne Szafran, Senior
Conservator and Head of
Paintings Conservation
at the J. Paul Getty Museum, about this study and its findings.
Many curators,
conservators, fellows, and research assistants
at the Met contributed to this exhibition and its accompanying catalogue, including experts from the Museum's departments of American
Paintings and Sculpture, Drawings and Prints, European
Paintings, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts,
Paintings Conservation, and Modern and Contemporary Art.
Paintings conservator, James Squires, hard
at working preparing a
painting for exhibition this fall.
Shang Kuang, a
conservator at the Hamilton Kerr Institute was cleaning a 17th century Dutch
painting by Hendrick van Anthonissen owned by the Fitzwillliam Museum when she first stumbled on a figure standing on the horizon line and then uncovered an entire whale beaching on the coastline.
Curators and
conservators at the Nelson - Atkins have already begun to conduct studies of works in the Bloch Collection to further the scholarly knowledge around these masterpieces of French
painting.
Since 2004 she has been Associate
Conservator for Asian
Paintings at The Cleveland Museum of Art, where she has handled the conservation treatment, mounting, and preservation of the museum's East Asian paintings collection, including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean work
Paintings at The Cleveland Museum of Art, where she has handled the conservation treatment, mounting, and preservation of the museum's East Asian
paintings collection, including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean work
paintings collection, including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean works of art.
The exhibition is organized by Katharine Baetjer, Curator in the Metropolitan Museum's Department of European
Paintings, and Marjorie Shelley, Sherman Fairchild
Conservator in Charge of the Paper Conservation Department
at the Museum.
+ (Above) The obscured detail of a pooping man, thought to be censored by none other than Queen Victoria, was uncovered by the
conservators at the Royal Collection Trust in a
painting by Isack van Ostade.
Modern
Paints Uncovered Symposium May 16 — 19, 2006
at the Tate Modern in London Narayan Khandekar presented research done by a team of Whitney
conservators and Harvard scientists on the Whitney's Donald Judd, Untitled, 1965
Brad Epley, chief
conservator at the Menil Collection, in the museum's
painting studio with works by René Magritte, Wolfgang Schulze, Panayiotis Vassilakis Takis and Christoph Amberger in various stages of
In this talk
at Tate Modern,
Conservator, Rachel Barker describes the technical and aesthetic characteristics of Agnes Martin's
painting...