Art Conservation

GRADUATE INTERNSHIPS
Testing document inks at the Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts in Philadelphia
TREATMENT SKILLS
Applying fills to a painting
Studio Skills
Learning lathe turning woodworking techniques
GRADUATE INTERNSHIPS
Examining Jan de Bray's "Judith and Holofernes" at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam
GRADUATE INTERNSHIPS
Reconstructing a ceramic vessel at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Treatment Skills
Attaching a corner insert on a watercolor
GRADUATE INTERNSHIPS
Cleaning a graphite drawing on canvas at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
GRADUATE INTERNSHIPS
Cleaning a gilded frieze at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery
GRADUATE INTERNSHIPS
Cleaning a large acrylic sculpture at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Treatment Skills
Inpainting losses on a 19th-century portrait painting
ACADEMIC COURSEWORK
Studying the process of cellulose degradation
Treatment Skills
Applying a starch paste/methyl cellulose poultice on degraded book materials
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS
XRF analysis of suspected metal toning on an uncased daguerreotype
GRADUATE INTERNSHIPS
Treating a painting at the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Lunder Conservation Center
GRADUATE INTERNSHIPS
Consolidating a decorative ceiling at Shangri La, the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art, Honolulu

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

Teaching photograph conservation in Cuba
A delegation of WUDPAC faculty, alumni, and students recently traveled to Havana to hold a four-day conference for photo and preservation professionals from around the country.
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Art conservation and filling in the gaps
A merry and even ribald scene in a print by 18th-century French engraver Jean Charles Baquoy recently became a treatment project for WUDPAC Fellow Madison Brockman.
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Art conservation and historical remedies
A 17th-century earthenware pot designed to hold medicinal mixtures of alcohol, spices, and cream, recently became a treatment project for WUDPAC Fellow Haddon Dine.
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Art conservation and delicate decoration
A decoratively-veneered demilune pier table, made in Baltimore about 1790, recently became a treatment project for WUDPAC Fellow Leila Sabouni.
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Apr
24
Students' Choice Lecture
Apr. 24th, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Charleston Dining Room
Join us in Winterthur's Charleston Dining for a presentation on library conservation, to be given by Mindell Dubansky of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY).
Apr
25
Students' Choice Lecture
Apr. 25th, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Winterthur Rotunda
Join us in the Winterthur Rotunda as Matthew Skopek of the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY) speaks on “Issues of Refabrication and the Replication Committee.”
May
2
Students' Choice Lecture
May 2nd, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Winterthur Rotunda
Join us in the Winterthur Rotunda as Erika Mosier of the Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY) speaks on “Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper.”
May
3
Students' Choice Lecture
May 3rd, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Winterthur Rotunda
Join us in the Winterthur Rotunda as Stephanie Lussier of the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, DC) speaks on the “Collages and Other Mixed Media Works on Paper.”
May
7
Technical Study Presentations by the WUDPAC Class of 2019
May 7th, 1:00 PM to 4:45 PM
Copeland Lecture Hall
Join us in Winterthur's Copeland Lecture Hall for an afternoon series of ten presentations focusing on the technical study projects undertaken by current WUDPAC students. The talks are open to the public; more information and the schedule of presentations can be found at www.artcons.udel.edu/Documents/2018ScienceTalks.pdf

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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

Student Blog: Museum of Modern Art
In this blog post, WUDPAC Class of 2018 Fellow Diana Hartman shares her experience working with conservation staff at the Museum of Modern Art, and interacting with paintings by such artists as Robert Rauschenberg and John Kane.
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Student Blog: The Morgan Library & Museum
In this blog post, WUDPAC Class of 2018 Fellow Jacklyn Chi talks about working with the collections and staff at the Morgan Library & Museum’s Thaw Conservation Center, and her treatment of a drawing attributed to the Dutch artist Jacob de Wit.
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