McKay Lodge Conservation Laboratory's years of deep research into the materials and methods of sculptures by Luis Jiménez led to the highly successful restoration of correct appearance and now extreme durability…
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The conservation staff of McKay Lodge Conservation Laboratory headed to New York to provide marble conservation to the sculptures of Daniel Chester French in front of the New York Customs House. The monumental Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House sits prominently…
McKay Lodge Conservation Lab was awarded a prestigious conservation project at the Federal Trade Commission Building, located at the eastern end of the Federal Triangle in Washington, D.C. Two monumental Indiana limestone sculptures, each depicting a rearing stallion being curbed…
Stone conservator Marcin Pikus and his assistants were involved in a major building stone conservation project lasting nearly two years under contract to Berglund Construction Company for the U.S. General Services Administration. The base contract and change orders had a…
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…
September 2007 During the summer of 2007, Louise Nevelson’s monumental sculpture Bicentennial Dawn from Philadelphia was in Oberlin at the McKay Lodge, Inc. sculpture conservation facilities for a complete recoating project due to massive failure of its previous coatings. The sculpture had…
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…