PAINTINGS CONSERVATION: McKay Lodge Art Conservation recently treated several paintings funded through the Adopt-A-Painting program at the Butler Institute of American Art. And we are now approaching completing the treatments for the initially selected ten top candidates for conservation. The…
Conserving Brader Drawings WHY ARE THE PAPERS SO DARK Ferdinand Brader’s heavy papers are prone to severe degradation and the formation of dark brown discolorations. Both are processes that accelerate as acid molecules form and continue to accumulate in the…
The Brader Exhibition McKay Lodge Fine Arts Conservation Laboratory, Inc. is pleased to have been a major financial sponsor of the exhibition The Legacy of Ferdinand A. Brader Visit simultaneous exhibitions of the life and works Ferdinand Brader at the Canton…
Art Conservation Cleveland, Dry Ice CO2 Blasting, Outdoor Sculpture Conservation: During the summer of 2014, McKay Lodge Art Conservation Laboratory was contracted to work with the conservators at the Cleveland Museum of Art to remove a failed protective coatings and…
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…
OUTDOOR SCULPTURE CONSERVATION: On June 20-22, 2012, Robert Lodge, company president and industrial coatings specialist for the company’s sculpture conservation projects, attended the meeting: The Conservation of Twentieth-Century Painted Outdoor Sculpture Painted OUTDOOR SCULPTURE EXPERTS MEETING The three day meeting…
Objects Conservation: In 2006 the Queens Museum of Art in Flushing Meadows, NY awarded a $103,588.00 contract to McKay Lodge Art Conservation Laboratory, Inc. to restore and prepare for display in the Queens Museum of Art an enormous painted plaster…
Outdoor Sculpture Conservation, Coatings Research and Refinishing, Outdoor Sculpture Coating Conservation: Protective coatings for outdoor sculpture conservation are constantly being evaluated by our firm. For four days in a cold week of March 2013, polymer scientist Dante Battochi, D.Eng., PhD…
Conservator of Modern Sculpture and Public Art Jim Gwinner was a presenter and demonstrated solid CO2 (dry ice) cleaning equipment at the September 2015 symposium: Ice Cold: Solid Carbon Dioxide Cleaning Symposium at the Lunder Conservation Center and the Hirshhorn…
In 2006, McKay Lodge Conservation Laboratory, Inc. conducted an objects conservation survey of artifacts at the Drake Well Museum. The survey will continue this summer of 2008 with an additional objects conservation survey of nitroglycerin well torpedoes and other metal artifacts in…