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…
Sculpture Conservation, Outdoor Sculpture Conservation: In September, 2010, a 12 foot tall, 9,000 pound sculpture in Portland, Oregon, a free-standing, monumental stone arch with joints of uncertain strength, had to be moved quickly and safely. The ability to turn the…
October 2007 Early in October 2007, the monumental steel sculpture Facets to the Sun was reinstalled on the plaza of the Norris Cotton Federal Building in Manchester, New Hampshire by McKay Lodge Art Conservation Laboratory, Inc. after the company removed the concrete-bound…
Painted Outdoor Sculpture: Here are rare early images of Alexander Calder Stabiles in stages of work. Thanks to photographer Robert B. Hicks for responding to our request to search through his photographs and find these 1973 images never-before-seen of Calder…
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…
The red of some Alexander Calder outdoor painted sculptures have, unfortunately, been repainted with some fanciful variations of red. When the original red color can not be known for certain from archival information, paint cross sections, or other forms of…
May 2008 Art in public places especially that placed in outdoor environments requires frequent inspections and maintenance to preserve good appearance and physical stability. While McKay Lodge Art Conservation Laboratory, Inc, is largely engaged in caring for the large public…
The Pittsburgh public loves ARCH and McKay Lodge Conservation Laboratory is very pleased it could use its expertise in saving it from complete dilapidation and total loss. ARCH has a Facebook Page: ARCH was commissioned from artist Glenn Kaino as…
Art Conservation Cleveland, Dry Ice CO2 Blasting, Outdoor Sculpture Conservation: During the summer of 2014, McKay Lodge Art Conservation Laboratory was contracted to work with the conservators at the Cleveland Museum of Art to remove a failed protective coatings and…
Outdoor Painted Sculpture: Outdoor painted sculpture conservation is one of our most active specialties. In 2014 we removed to our facility a monumental outdoor painted sculpture by James Rosati (1911-1988) for complete repainting. This was our second time handling this…