Since 2015, the Cleveland area art conservation center McKay Lodge Conservation Laboratory has provided annual contract Public Art conservation maintenance to various works of art in the Public Art collection of the City of Columbus. This followed McKay Lodge Conservation's…
Sculpture Conservation, George Rickey Conservation Our return of George Rickey's moving sculpture TRIPLE L, EXCENTRIC, GYRATORY, GYRATORY III for PNC Bank in Cleveland was well received. In July, 2017, McKay Lodge Art Conservation Laboratory reinstalled the George Rickey sculpture on…
In July 2017, McKay Lodge, Inc. makes a medium-sized new equipment purchase and adds a third multi-purpose tractor/forklift to our art and material handling equipment. This John Deere 5065E with an H240 loader falls between, in capacity, our older 2,000…
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…
LIQUID HONING An important part of keeping up with a wide variety of projects often requires getting small-sized new equipment. The Ohio Conservation Center recently purchased a liquid honing machine from Vapor Blast Manufacturing Company. The cabinet machine can provide…
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…
OBJECTS CONSERVATION: McKay Lodge Conservation enjoys helping small Ohio museums. Recently, a donation of our objects conservation services was made to the Clinton County History Center in Wilmington, Ohio. The Center includes a touring museum with exhibits and special displays,…
Stone conservator Marcin Pikus and his assistants were involved in a major building stone conservation project lasting nearly two years under contract to Berglund Construction Company for the U.S. General Services Administration. The base contract and change orders had a…
The purpose of the three day visit to George Rickey's studios was for the conservators to get familiar with the artist's technical files and discuss how the information, which requires interpretation, can be made usefully available to researchers and owners…
September 2007 During the summer of 2007, Louise Nevelson’s monumental sculpture Bicentennial Dawn from Philadelphia was in Oberlin at the McKay Lodge, Inc. sculpture conservation facilities for a complete recoating project due to massive failure of its previous coatings. The sculpture had…