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…
CURRENT TREATMENTS 2016 McKay Lodge mentioned in Smithsonian Science News regarding the conservation of outdoor sculptures by Luis Jiménez. "VAQUERO" Luis Jiménez Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, DC. "SODBUSTER" Luis Jiménez Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND. TREATMENT OF "LOS LAGARTOS" Luis Jiménez…
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…
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…
McKay Lodge Conservation Laboratory's years of deep research into the materials and methods of sculptures by Luis Jiménez led to the highly successful restoration of correct appearance and now extreme durability…
INDUSTRY, AGRICULTURE, LITERATURE, JUSTICE - JOHN MASSEY RHIND, 1905 Stone Conservation: In 1908 Scottish-American sculptor J.M. Rhind carved four Tennessee pink marble sculptures representing Industry, Agriculture, Literature and Justice for the front of the Birch Bayh Federal Building in Indianapolis,…
The conservation staff of McKay Lodge Conservation Laboratory headed to New York to provide marble conservation to the sculptures of Daniel Chester French in front of the New York Customs House. The monumental Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House sits prominently…
Sculpture Conservation: Through research, experimentation, and consultations with metallurgists and corrosion control engineers, McKay Lodge Art Conservation Laboratory, Inc. has been able to successfully deal with a variety of preservation issues with low alloy, structural weathering steel commonly known as…
McKay Lodge Conservation Lab was awarded a prestigious conservation project at the Federal Trade Commission Building, located at the eastern end of the Federal Triangle in Washington, D.C. Two monumental Indiana limestone sculptures, each depicting a rearing stallion being curbed…
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…