Sentences with phrase «painting conservator»

A painting conservator is someone who takes care of old paintings by repairing or restoring them back to their original condition. Full definition
Birkmaier, who joined the museum in 2000 as Paintings Conservator, served as the Acting Chief Conservator since October 2011.
From 1997 to 2003, she worked as Japanese Painting Conservator at Oka Bokkodo — a studio in Kyoto, Japan, that specializes in the treatment of designated Cultural Properties.
In March 2010, St. Francis was sent to The Metropolitan Museum of Art for an unprecedented technical examination by a team of specialists led by Paintings Conservator Charlotte Hale.
Simon and Parish enlisted noted New York University paintings conservator Dianne Dwyer Modestini to work on the restoration.
Nancy Cogswell visits the National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington USA to talk with painting conservators there, and we get part - one of the interview, which ends on the nearest thing I can imagine to a cliff hanger for this type of serial, getting into some really interesting territory, asking just the questions I'd want to ask like «are there certain paintings you prefer to work on?»
The treatment was performed by SFMOMA paintings conservator Paula De Cristofaro in 2012.
Tate's painting conservators travelled to the National Gallery of Zimbabwe to conserve three important early paintings by Chris Ofili.
The book includes three essays: an introduction by Toby Treves, which discusses the artist's intentions and the character of his work; an essay by Sam Smiles, which places Lanyon within a tradition of British landscape painting, with particular reference to Turner and Constable; and an essay by Treves and Mary Bustin, former paintings conservator at Tate, on the artist's materials and technique.
Allen Kosanovich, Associate Paintings Conservator, discusses several conservation projects that were carried out in preparation for the reinstallation of the Wadsworth Atheneum's European galleries.
The exhibition is supported by a catalogue with essays by the Delaware Art Museum's Chief Curator and Curator of American Art Dr. Heather Campbell Coyle and painting conservator Mark Bockrath.
Be sure to check out our recent videos of Mural narrated by the artist's studio assistants (Episode # 097) and painting conservator Luca Bonetti (Episode # 101).
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.
When I went through school I trained as a painting conservator.
«There is some dust on the surface that can be brushed out carefully, but the canvases basically can't be cleaned, ever, without removing the paint,» says de Kooning expert Susan Lake, a painting conservator with the Smithsonian Institution's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C..
His foray began in the 1970s in his native London, likely influenced by family members accomplished in science and the arts: His grandfather was a distinguished organic chemist, his father, a civil aviation expert, and his mother, a paintings conservator.
Residing in New Orleans since 2008, she has worked as a painting conservator, and for the honors program at Tulane University.
I have asked our paintings conservator, James Squires, to examine this question and we look forward to sharing our discoveries with you in another post.
Paintings conservator, James Squires, hard at working preparing a painting for exhibition this fall.
The painter Walter Robinson and Lisa Rosen, his wife and a paintings conservator.
Hines made a living as a paintings conservator; it was not until his retirement as Chief Conservator for the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in 1984 that he was able to paint full time.
Before teaching, I worked for a painting conservator for about six years.
Phillips, who was originally trained as a paintings conservator, likens Versteeg's preference for Lingo to that of a painter for a certain pigment — and in the world of conservation, stripping an artwork of such an essential trait is unthinkable.
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