Luis Jiménez was an American sculptor born in El Paso, Texas. He is best known for his colorful stylized fiberglass sculptures featuring both American and Mexican themes. The unique and bold forms of his sculptures provide a striking addition to…
At the beginning of 2018, we shared our conservation assessment of Seaflower completed by Conservator of Modern Art Bob Lodge who specializes in painted outdoor sculpture conservation and coatings research and refinishing. Seaflower was created by artist James Surls…
Far south from the McKay Lodge Conservation lab facilities in the Great Lakes Region, but just north of the Mexico and United States border, Public Art and Sculpture Conservator Jim Gwinner recently managed an outdoor painted sculpture conservation project in Las…
Public Art Conservation, Coatings Research and Refinishing, Outdoor Sculpture Conservation: In an open atrium located by the Walter E. Washington Convention Center at 7th and M Street Northwest in D.C., Transit, 2007 an abstract sculpture by artist Wendy M. Ross…
Outdoor Sculpture Conservation, Public Art Conservation, Architectural Features Conservation: The Woodbourne Library in Centerville, Ohio just outside of Dayton has a unique architectural feature lining the south and west sides of the building: rows of painted boxes made from Cor-Ten,…
Painted Outdoor Sculpture Conservation: A review of our re-painting Alexander Calder's Flamingo, of five years ago was recently published in the online periodical Durability + Design. Read the review here. In this published review, founder and owner of the Chicago Corrosion Group,…
Outdoor Painted Sculpture, Painted Outdoor Sculpture Conservation, Public Art Conservation: The colorful glass fiber painted outdoor sculpture by Luis A. Jiménez, FIESTA JARABE, was reinstalled by Cleveland area McKay Lodge Art Conservation Laboratory in mid-August 2017 in scorching heat at…
Painted Outdoor Sculpture: Here are rare early images of Alexander Calder Stabiles in stages of work. Thanks to photographer Robert B. Hicks for responding to our request to search through his photographs and find these 1973 images never-before-seen of Calder…
The red of some Alexander Calder outdoor painted sculptures have, unfortunately, been repainted with some fanciful variations of red. When the original red color can not be known for certain from archival information, paint cross sections, or other forms of…
Outdoor Painted Sculpture: Outdoor painted sculpture conservation is one of our most active specialties. In 2014 we removed to our facility a monumental outdoor painted sculpture by James Rosati (1911-1988) for complete repainting. This was our second time handling this…