When one thinks of sculpture maintenance, it is usually works of art located in public spaces outdoors, but sometimes sculpture maintenance involves works of art installed indoors. One such sculpture is The Town Ho's Story, 1993 by Frank Stella located…
Steps away from busy Second Avenue in downtown Seattle, Washington, one can find a natural reprieve on the plaza of the Henry M. Jackson Federal Building. This "contemplative retreat" as described by the artist Isamu Noguchi is an outdoor sculpture…
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…
Sculpture Conservation, Public Art Conservation, Calder Mobile conservation: A high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) vacuum, extension pole, dust mask, and soft knit cloth seem unlikely items to pack for a trip to the airport, but they are exactly the supplies necessary…
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…
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,…
Public Art Conservation, George Rickey Sculpture Conservation: Conservators Jim Gwinner and Christina L. Simms recently traveled to Honolulu, Hawaii to perform a minor conservation treatment, but a major relocation of a kinetic sculpture by the artist George Rickey. The stainless steel…
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…
Painted Outdoor Sculpture Conservation: A review of our re-painting Alexander Calder's Flamingo, of five years ago was recently published in the online periodical Durability + Design. Read the review here. In this published review, founder and owner of the Chicago Corrosion Group,…
Art Conservation in the Caribbean At this time of year, most people head to the Caribbean to escape the cold temperatures and snow, but Marcin Pikus of McKay Lodge Conservation recently traveled to the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) to perform…