PAINTINGS CONSERVATION: McKay Lodge Art Conservation recently treated several paintings funded through the Adopt-A-Painting program at the Butler Institute of American Art. And we are now approaching completing the treatments for the initially selected ten top candidates for conservation. The…
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…
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…
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…
OBJECTS CONSERVATION: The Queens Museum of Art in Flushing Meadows, NY awarded a $103,588.00 contract to McKay Lodge Conservation Laboratory, Inc. to restore and prepare for display in the Queens Museum of Art an enormous painted plaster topographic map of…
Keeping up with the demands of art conservation projects sometimes means acquiring new conservation equipment. We purchased a new Ford F350 extended body cargo van to join our earlier two identical model vans to make a company fleet of three.…
Big projects require big equipment. To help with that, McKay Lodge Conservation Laboratory recently purchased some large new conservation equipment: Grove RT518 Crane: The center purchased a Grove RT518 18 ton rough terrain (RT) crane. Yes, it is every conservator’s…
Conservators who are involved in the restoration and preservation of Works Progress Administration (WPA) murals and those of close era may find the following recommendations and formula regarding lead white in varnish, of interest. A photostatic copy of the undated…
Steel Industry by Glen Shaw, 1937 The Frank T. Bow Federal Building in Canton, Ohio, contains a series of thirteen, powerfully composed, murals each depicting a different facet of the steel industry that is so important to cities of Northern Ohio.…