McKay Lodge Art Conservation Laboratory, Inc. was hired by the general contractor Desbuild Inc. of Hyattsville, Maryland to remove, conserve and relocate to a new site nearby Tony Smith’s monumental sculpture She Who Must be Obeyed. The 30 foot tall, 24…
SPONSOR AND SPEAKER - PUBLIC ART NETWORK PRECONFERENCE McKay Lodge, Inc. was a financial sponsor of the 2013 Americans for the Arts conference held in Pittsburgh, PA. In addition, company president Robert Lodge was a speaker at the associated Public…
Queen Catherine of Braganza has taken up residence at the Butler Institute of American Art. The heroic scale (almost 12 foot tall) plaster maquette is a creation of sculptor Audrey Flack who is well known for her monumental scale realistic…
PAINTINGS CONSERVATION: Following a rare find, the Kentucky History Center in Frankfort Kentucky acquired a set of portraits painted by Patrick Henry Davenport. The portraits are exceptional in their representation of two members of a growing middle class at that…
The Butler Institute of American Art received a Luce Foundation grant of $15,000 which the museum applied toward the larger cost of much needed paintings conservation of five of the most significant American paintings from the institute’s original collection. Additional…
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.…
PAINTINGS CONSERVATION: In 2007 the Archdiocese of Louisville, Kentucky contracted with McKay Lodge Art Conservation Laboratory, Inc. to salvage a seriously deteriorated but very important painting by the Flemish painter Gaspar de Crayer (1584-1669). The twelve foot tall oil painting…
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…
PAINTINGS CONSERVATION: The first Lew Wallace paintings conservation condition assessment of significant paintings at the General Lew Wallace Study and Museum was recently conducted by Robert Lodge. These art works are among many artifacts chronicling the life of the famous…
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,…