September 9, 2006
T.K. McClintock, director of a private practice devoted to the conservation of historic works on paper including fine art, Asian paintings and prints, and decorative arts as well as cartographic records and globes."Conservation of Historic Wallpapers", Jeremiah Lee Mansion, Marblehead, MA
Conservation of rare original 18th-century wallpapers in the 1768 Jeremiah Lee Mansion in Marblehead, Massachusetts. The 237-year-old hand-painted English wallpapers that are one of only two sets surviving in England or America, and the only painted mural papers of that type still on the walls of their original home. The Jeremiah Lee Mansion has been owned and maintained for nearly a century by the Marblehead Historical Society, a non-profit educational organization founded in 1898.
October 2006
Stuart Walker, Book Conservator for the Boston Public LibraryOn August 16, 1998, the BPL's basement level reference and storage areas were flooded with more than a million gallons of water. Mr. Walker will discuss the Library's emergency response and salvage operations, especially in light of its relationship with the City of Boston, and its lack of an active disaster plan at that time.
December 6, 2006
Joe Matteis, “Exceeding Normal Working Parameters”, Worcester Art Museum 6:30 pm
Joe discusses the use of heat lamps on a suspended rail system that he designed and built for the restorations of W.P.A. murals by James Henry Daugherty including New England Tradition, 99 1/2" x 255". The equipment, which can be fit into your average station wagon, makes it possible for a crew of three to vacuum seal an eight foot high painting onto aluminum honeycomb panel(s) up to 30 feet long.
T.K. McClintock, director of a private practice devoted to the conservation of historic works on paper including fine art, Asian paintings and prints, and decorative arts as well as cartographic records and globes."Conservation of Historic Wallpapers", Jeremiah Lee Mansion, Marblehead, MA
Conservation of rare original 18th-century wallpapers in the 1768 Jeremiah Lee Mansion in Marblehead, Massachusetts. The 237-year-old hand-painted English wallpapers that are one of only two sets surviving in England or America, and the only painted mural papers of that type still on the walls of their original home. The Jeremiah Lee Mansion has been owned and maintained for nearly a century by the Marblehead Historical Society, a non-profit educational organization founded in 1898.
October 2006
Stuart Walker, Book Conservator for the Boston Public LibraryOn August 16, 1998, the BPL's basement level reference and storage areas were flooded with more than a million gallons of water. Mr. Walker will discuss the Library's emergency response and salvage operations, especially in light of its relationship with the City of Boston, and its lack of an active disaster plan at that time.
December 6, 2006
Joe Matteis, “Exceeding Normal Working Parameters”, Worcester Art Museum 6:30 pm
Joe discusses the use of heat lamps on a suspended rail system that he designed and built for the restorations of W.P.A. murals by James Henry Daugherty including New England Tradition, 99 1/2" x 255". The equipment, which can be fit into your average station wagon, makes it possible for a crew of three to vacuum seal an eight foot high painting onto aluminum honeycomb panel(s) up to 30 feet long.
