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OBJECTS CONSERVATION

The Sculpture Department specializes in the restoration of 14th-21st century sculpture and three dimensional works in ceramic, plaster, marble, metal, stone, wood, glass, mixed media, as well as ethnographic sculptures and artifacts. This subspecialty within the field of conservation demands a broad knowledge of sculpture materials and fabrication techniques, both historic and contemporary.

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Treatment Examples

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Cube structure, Sol Lewitt

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Pre-treatment: Broken elements, scratches and abrasions

lewitt cube after
Post treatment: Elements have been readhered, and surfaces cleaned and inpainted.

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Lalanne sheep damaged in Hurricane Katrina, post-treatment

Lalanne Sheep
Pretreatment

 

     
This T'ang Dynasty Sculpture was damaged in a residential move. The shards were reassembled by our Decorative Arts Department to their original posiion and the losses were filled and retouched.
 
 
 
 
 
 
This bust was accidentally damaged, and had broken into over 60 pieces. The individual extant shards were first cleaned using conservation solvents and then carefully reassembled. Areas of loss were filled with conservation adhesive, and edge seams retouched to match the original to both value and hue.

 

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