CURRENT TREATMENTS 2016 McKay Lodge mentioned in Smithsonian Science News regarding the conservation of outdoor sculptures by Luis Jiménez. "VAQUERO" Luis Jiménez Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, DC. "SODBUSTER" Luis Jiménez Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND. TREATMENT OF "LOS LAGARTOS" Luis Jiménez…
Conservators Christina L. Simms and Emmett Lodge traveled to the deep South this May for the conservation treatment and relocation assessment of Two Worlds Apart, 1991 by artist Ned Smyth. The mosaic artwork currently resides in front of the…
Joseph Konzal's GATEWAY, a large Cor-ten sculpture, was commissioned under the Art-in-Architecture Program of the General Service Administration in 1977. Cor-ten steel, sometimes referred to as weathering steel, is expected to develop a protective layer of corrosion upon exposure to…
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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…
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…
FIELD AND SHOP SERVICES PROVIDED The company is well equipped, knowledgeable and practiced in the provision of the following conservation services equally well on-site and at our large shops. INDUSTRIAL COATINGS Surface Preparation Surface preparations for optimal bonding of coatings by…