It is wintertime in Northern Ohio, and there is certainly snow place like home. Locals learn to enjoy thirty degree plus temperature fluctuations as well as every form water takes-on around freezing temperatures. Winter Landscape by Ernest Lawson, before treatment…
Painted portrait restoration requires special skill and training, particularly if a painting is in unstable condition. Stefan Dedecek, Conservator of Paintings, Murals, and Polychrome surfaces at McKay Lodge Conservation Laboratory has such experience, ranging from the treatment of large scale…
Conservator of Paintings, Murals and Polychrome Surfaces, Stefan Dedecek of McKay Lodge Conservation Laboratory, shares his thoughts on a recent conservation treatment. Stefan Dedecek, Conservator of Paintings, Polychrome Surfaces, and Murals of McKay Lodge Conservation Laboratory The painting Rain the…
A recent painting conservation treatment at McKay Lodge Conservation Laboratory uncovered a pleasant surprise: a hidden figure. At first the painting appeared as a simple, but serene landscape; however, an exciting discovery was made as surface cleaning progressed which was…
While the conservation team at McKay Lodge Conservation Laboratory just outside of Cleveland, Ohio performs recoating of large-scale outdoor sculpture to restoring electronic media artworks, more traditional conservation treatments are also completed at the lab such as Old Master paintings…
The McKay Lodge Conservation Laboratory has many areas of expertise. Sometimes an object needing conservation treatment does not fall neatly into one of these categories, but instead has characteristics of more than one. This is case with a recent painted…
Stefan Dedecek, Conservator of Paintings, Murals and Polychrome Surfaces, recently performed a conservation treatment of an Aminah Robinson painting as well as a set of doors originally installed at the home of the artist. While we shared information about the…
McKay Lodge Conservation Laboratory recently opened its doors for the paintings conservation treatment of artworks by Columbus, Ohio artist Aminah Robinson. The artworks consist of a painting on canvas and two painted doors. The two doors currently at the lab…
Before treatment, a discolored varnish and past restoration create a need conservation Oregon Trail, 1869 by Albert Bierstadt recently received a paintings conservation treatment at McKay Lodge Conservation Laboratory. Stefan Dedecek, Conservation of Paintings, Murals, and Polychrome Surfaces, has performed…
When most people think of the term "conservation", environmental conservation might come to mind rather than art. Sometimes the conservation of nature coincides with the conservation of art, as in the case of the portrait of Gifford Pinchot, first Chief of…