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…
Outdoor Sculpture Conservation, Coatings Research and Refinishing, Outdoor Sculpture Coating Conservation: Protective coatings for outdoor sculpture conservation are constantly being evaluated by our firm. For four days in a cold week of March 2013, polymer scientist Dante Battochi, D.Eng., PhD…
Conservator of Modern Sculpture and Public Art Jim Gwinner was a presenter and demonstrated solid CO2 (dry ice) cleaning equipment at the September 2015 symposium: Ice Cold: Solid Carbon Dioxide Cleaning Symposium at the Lunder Conservation Center and the Hirshhorn…
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…
McKay Lodge Conservation's stone conservator Marcin Pikus traveled to the American southwest to treat an untitled travertine sculpture by Doug Hyde in the plaza in front of the Pete V. Domenici U.S. Courthouse in Albuquerque, New Mexico. First, a bit about…
Cast-Iron Fountains with Zinc Statues Sculpture Conservator Tom Podnar is mentioned in Carol Grissom’s talk “Toward Better Treatment of Cast-Iron Fountains with Zinc Statues”. Tom is skilled at the traditional and difficult technique of lead-tin soldering which is the most…
Painted Outdoor Sculpture, Outdoor Painted Sculpture: August 15, 2016: Emmett Lodge (left) and Marcin Pikus (right) began the Batcolumn refinishing at the 100 foot level. McKay Lodge conservators completed a GSA contract project during the fall of 2016 in the windy city of…
The State of Alabama contracted with McKay Lodge Conservation Laboratory, Inc. through the Alabama Historical Commission to undertake a condition study of their Confederate Monument that was built over many years beginning in 1886. The tall limestone monument stands just outside the north…
A contract for the assessment of nearly thirty monuments in the State of Iowa was awarded to McKay Lodge Inc. in January 2002. Most of the monuments are located on the grounds of the State Capitol in Des Moines; others…
In October 2000, McKay Lodge, Inc. completed the conservation treatment on the bronze and stone monuments at Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Maryland. The work was performed under the direction of Nancy Kurtz, Monuments Survey Administrator for the Maryland Historical Trust and…