Paper conservation of eight Old Master prints from the collection of the Columbus Museum of Art was recently featured in a broadcast by WOSU Public Media Television of Columbus, Ohio. The conservation work was performed by Gina McKay, Senior Paper…
Ferdinand A. Brader, THE PROPERTY OF JACOB AND ELIZA MATZ, PARIS TP: STARK CO: OHIO 1887. Our most recent Brader conservation treatment. The Paper Conservation Section of McKay Lodge Conservation Laboratory has now treated a total of 22 of drawings…
Paper Conservation: Variety is the Spice of Life: The Conservation Treatments of An Ambrotype, Charcoal Drawing, Town Map, and Poster One thing you can say for sure about art conservation: there is a tremendous amount of variety. From the materials…
Paper Conservation: One of the art conservation services offered at McKay Lodge Conservation Laboratory, Inc. is the preservation and restoration of historic documents and works of art on paper, and on occasion, a little bit of Rock n' Roll. A…
Brader Paper Conservation: Since all the paper conservation treatments of Brader drawings performed by senior paper conservator Gina McKay Lodge in preparation for the past Ferdinand Brader exhibition (Canton Museum of Art, December 4, 2014 - March 15, 2015), many…
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.…
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…
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,…
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…