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…
SPONSOR AND SPEAKER - PUBLIC ART NETWORK PRECONFERENCE McKay Lodge, Inc. was a financial sponsor of the 2013 Americans for the Arts conference held in Pittsburgh, PA. In addition, company president Robert Lodge was a speaker at the associated 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…
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…
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…
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…