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…
While stainless steel outdoor sculpture does not rust like weathering steel or mild steel, it still has issues with corrosion. Stainless steel outdoor sculpture therefore still requires regular conservation maintenance and treatment. One such sculpture is Ainsa I, 2013 by Spanish…
Public art should be, as the name implies, available to the public. But sometimes public access to art is not healthy for the art. Take the case of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN carved in white marble by Jacques Jouvenal and erected in…
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…
Electronic Media assessments and Optical Artifact Conservation; Public Art Conservation: The precursor of a successful art conservation treatment is a thorough examination. Jim Gwinner, Conservator of Public Art and Sculpture, and our staff expert in electronic media, recently traveled to…
Outdoor Sculpture Conservation: The FORCE was with us. No more. For seven years nearly exactly, (August 11, 2011- August 25, 2018) the graceful, GSA commissioned sculpture, FORCE ONE: CONSCIOUSNESS IS CRUCIAL, lived with us at our conservation facility, stored…
Public Art Conservation, Sculpture Conservation: The island of Oahu has beaches, coral reefs, rainforests, mountains, designer shops, and restaurants, but it also has some great outdoor sculpture. One such work of art is the bronze sculpture Barking Sands, 1977 by…
Stone Conservation, Sculpture Conservation, Architectural Features Conservation; In 1908 Scottish-American sculptor John Massey Rhind carved four Tennessee pink marble sculptures for the front of the Birch Bayh Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Indianapolis, Indiana. These four large sculptures represented Industry, Agriculture,…
Outdoor Sculpture Conservation, Public Art Conservation, Sculpture Conservation: In a recent blog post we described our conservation projects in the Caribbean which included Lady Justice by Jan R. Mitchell, but it was this time of year -nearly seven years ago- that McKay Lodge…