PAINTINGS CONSERVATION: In 2007 the Archdiocese of Louisville, Kentucky contracted with McKay Lodge Art Conservation Laboratory, Inc. to salvage a seriously deteriorated but very important painting by the Flemish painter Gaspar de Crayer (1584-1669). The twelve foot tall oil painting…
PAINTINGS CONSERVATION: Funding from the Henry Luce Foundation‘s American Art Program Art Conservation Initiative has made possible a large number of art conservation treatments for several McKay Lodge, Inc. museum clients. This program was a special one year initiative and…
PAINTINGS CONSERVATION: The first Lew Wallace paintings conservation condition assessment of significant paintings at the General Lew Wallace Study and Museum was recently conducted by Robert Lodge. These art works are among many artifacts chronicling the life of the famous…
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…
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.…
This article features art conservation work by McKay Lodge Fine Arts Conservation Laboratory, a specialist in art conservation, at the Howard M. Metzenbaum US Courthouse in Cleveland, Ohio. The PDF file is here: MILLET MURALS AT METZENBAUM Clem Labine’s Traditional Building…
Murals Conservation: During September 2014, twelve New Orleans frescoes by Louisiana artist Conrad Albrizio (1894-1973) were treated by Conservator of Paintings, Murals, and Polychromed Surfaces Stefan Dedecek. These Albrizio frescoes represent the twelve Stations of the Cross. They are located…
Murals Conservation, Paintings Conservation, Sculpture Conservation: August 2004: An allegorical ceiling mural, decorative painted walls, sculptures, and 19th century oil paintings once adorned the interior of the 1899 Erie City and County Public Library in Erie, Pennsylvania adjacent to another…
Long Hunters Discover Daniel Boone by Edward Laning, 1942 Edward Lanings mural Long Hunters Discover Daniel Boone was commissioned by the Section of Fine Arts of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). It is located in The William H. Natcher Federal Building and U.S.…