Public artworks commissioned by the Art-in-Architecture Program since its establishment in 1963, a percent-for-art program of the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), require frequent maintenance inspections to keep them in good condition. The number of commissions now exceeds 300 dispersed…
The City of Fort Worth, Texas has exercised its first renewal option of a services agreement between the city and McKay Lodge, Inc. for the care of its Public Art collection and additional sculptures.The initial contract was for approximately three…
PAINTINGS CONSERVATION: Following a rare find, the Kentucky History Center in Frankfort Kentucky acquired a set of portraits painted by Patrick Henry Davenport. The portraits are exceptional in their representation of two members of a growing middle class at that…
The Butler Institute of American Art received a Luce Foundation grant of $15,000 which the museum applied toward the larger cost of much needed paintings conservation of five of the most significant American paintings from the institute’s original collection. Additional…
THE OHIO CONSERVATION CENTER: Few conservators have had the experience of working with the large, darkened and fragile pencil drawings by the 19th century Swiss itinerant artist Ferdinand A. Brader who traveled and drew through areas of Pennsylvania and Ohio.…
PAINTINGS CONSERVATION: In 2007 the Archdiocese of Louisville, Kentucky contracted with McKay Lodge Art Conservation Laboratory, Inc. to salvage a seriously deteriorated but very important painting by the Flemish painter Gaspar de Crayer (1584-1669). The twelve foot tall oil painting…
PAINTINGS CONSERVATION: Funding from the Henry Luce Foundation‘s American Art Program Art Conservation Initiative has made possible a large number of art conservation treatments for several McKay Lodge, Inc. museum clients. This program was a special one year initiative and…
Brader Exhibition Website The Legacy of Ferdinand A. Brader Exhibitions December 4, 2014 through March 15, 2015 Visit simultaneous exhibitions of the life and works Ferdinand Brader at the Canton Museum of Art, at the William McKinley Presidential Museum and at the Little Art Gallery…
PAINTINGS CONSERVATION: The first Lew Wallace paintings conservation condition assessment of significant paintings at the General Lew Wallace Study and Museum was recently conducted by Robert Lodge. These art works are among many artifacts chronicling the life of the famous…
The Legacy of Ferdinand A. Brader The Brader Exhibition catalog has been published in conjunction with the exhibition The Legacy of Ferdinand A. Brader, on view at the Canton Museum of Art and the McKinley Presidential Library and Museum, Canton,…