Posts by Denise Stockman

This drawing is featured in the current exhibition A Curious Hand: The Prints of Henri-Charles Guérard. It came to conservation earlier this year because the white paint highlights had become darkened over time.

Treating and re-housing Coronation of the Virgin by the Trinity.

As a Paper Conservator, most of the objects that I treat are flat paper items, such as documents, maps, and prints. Recently, I worked on a more unusual project: an engraving on silk that came to conservation to be removed from its old mount and get better, updated housing.

For Preservation Week 2015, the Preservation Division will be giving lectures on caring for your personal collections. I am composing a talk entitled Be An Informed Consumer of Custom Picture Framing.

Although we may not know for sure that a certain artist consulted a certain manual, they provide important clues. In a way, these books tell a story about the history of art from the point of view of the practitioners.