Art Conservation

TREATMENT SKILLS
Stabilizing loose paint on a vandalized painting
Treatment Skills
Applying a starch paste/methyl cellulose poultice on degraded book materials
RESEARCH SKILLS
Examining a handwritten Koran from Gambia
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS
XRF analysis of suspected metal toning on an uncased daguerreotype
ACADEMIC COURSEWORK
Studying the process of cellulose degradation
TREATMENT SKILLS
Applying a custom paper pulp fill
TREATMENT SKILLS
Inpainting fills on a 17th-century tin-glazed earthenware pot
CONSERVATION OUTREACH
2018 summer program for students from historically black colleges and universities
GRADUATE INTERNSHIPS
Loss compensation on a 16th-century maiolica bust at the Cleveland Museum of Art
STUDIO SKILLS
Working with modern artmaking materials and technologies
GRADUATE INTERNSHIPS
Reconstructing a ceramic vessel at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
GRADUATE INTERNSHIPS
Using lasers to reduce mortar on the surface of an Assyrian relief at the Brooklyn Museum
RESEARCH SKILLS
Sampling paint from a mural in Boston's Ames-Webster Mansion
UNDERGRADUATE INTERNSHIPS
Treating an American history diorama from Tuskegee University Collections
GRADUATE INTERNSHIPS
Examining Jan de Bray's "Judith and Holofernes" at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam

Kress Reconstruction Project Materials Information/MITRA American Institute for Conservation ANAGPIC Papers

Preserving intangible heritage
Sri Lankan puppet drama is now on UNESCO’s Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. ARTC doctoral alumnus B.D. Nandadeva was part of that campaign.
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Highlighting the humanities
National Endowment for the Humanities chairman and staff recently toured the University of Delaware and met with WUDPAC faculty and students.
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Winterthur’s Scientific Research and Analysis Laboratory reopens
The laboratory has reopened after improvements that now allow visitors to observe the important work that happens at the interface of art and science.
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Art conservation and a mysterious landscape
Was a painting found in a second-hand store created in the 17th century? The unsigned landscape is currently undergoing conservation treatment by WUDPAC Fellow Jennifer Myers.
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Mar
14
Conservation Clinic
Mar. 14th, 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Winterthur’s Brown Horticultural Center
Learn more about the condition, care, and recommended treatment for your antique! As part of its mission of public service, at no charge, the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation consults on condition, care, and possible treatment of objects. Faculty, students, and Winterthur staff share with collectors, curators, owners, caretakers, and scholars their knowledge about caring for works of art and archival material. Owners or caretakers may make a 30-minute appointment to bring paintings, textiles, works of art on paper, books and archival documents, photographic materials, furniture, and decorative, archaeological, and ethnographic objects. By appointment only (call 302.888.4786). Free admission. Note: Limit no more than three objects per appointment. Monetary appraisals will not be given. This event is held one Thursday per month (1:00 pm–4:00 pm) at Winterthur’s Brown Horticultural Center (near the Greenhouses). 2018/2019 dates (subject to change): September 27, 2018; October 11, 2018; November 15, 2018; December 13, 2018; March 14, 2019; April 18, 2019.
Apr
18
Conservation Clinic
Apr. 18th, 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Winterthur’s Brown Horticultural Center
Learn more about the condition, care, and recommended treatment for your antique! As part of its mission of public service, at no charge, the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation consults on condition, care, and possible treatment of objects. Faculty, students, and Winterthur staff share with collectors, curators, owners, caretakers, and scholars their knowledge about caring for works of art and archival material. Owners or caretakers may make a 30-minute appointment to bring paintings, textiles, works of art on paper, books and archival documents, photographic materials, furniture, and decorative, archaeological, and ethnographic objects. By appointment only (call 302.888.4786). Free admission. Note: Limit no more than three objects per appointment. Monetary appraisals will not be given. This event is held one Thursday per month (1:00 pm–4:00 pm) at Winterthur’s Brown Horticultural Center (near the Greenhouses). 2018/2019 dates (subject to change): September 27, 2018; October 11, 2018; November 15, 2018; December 13, 2018; March 14, 2019; April 18, 2019.

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Since 2009, the University of Delaware has been awarded a series of grants from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation to support the design and creation of digital and physical historically accurate reconstructions of selected paintings from the Kress Collection. Use of these didactics and associated lesson plans, as well as sample sets of historic pigments and their raw materials available upon request from the Kress Foundation, will inform and inspire scholars, students, and the general public about the making of art and the value of technical art history…

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Student Blogs

Untying restoration from current conservation practices
In this blog post, ARTC undergraduate student AnnaLivia McCarthy discusses her thesis research (undertaken at the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library) on the complex history of rug conservation.
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Student Blog: Harry Ransom Center
In this blog post, WUDPAC Class of 2019 Fellow Emily Farek shares some projects from her internship at UT Austin's Harry Ransom Center, including the treatment of a set model from a 1964 production of Arthur Miller's “Incident at Vichy.”
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Newark, DE 19716, USA
Phone: 302-831-3489
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