Collaborations:
Carnegie
Museum of Art and Library of Congress:
Both institutions have an extensive Japanese woodblock
collection
covering the 18th and 19th centuries. We are in collaboration with the museum
and library to survey the
fading properties of the different colorants on these prints using the
micro fading tester.
University
of Agricultural Sciences, Vienna, Austria: We are in collaboration with Antje Potthast, an
assistant professor at the Christian Doppler Laboratory, to develop a
chromatographic method for monitoring cellulose degradation, relating carbonyl
groups to molecular weight changes.
Centre
Pompidou: We are involved in an international collaboration to provide
advice on the cleaning of the painting "Shining Forth" by Barnett
Newman.
Allegheny
College: We are in collaboration
with Doros Petasis, an assistant professor in the physics department, to examine
the deterioration of minerals using electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy
(EPR).
Micro
fading tester demonstrations occurred at Carnegie Museum of Art-Pittsburgh;
Harvard University Art Museums-Cambridge; Museum of Fine Arts-Boston;
Museum of Modern Art-New York; National Gallery of Art-Washington D.C.; Pompidou
Centre-Paris, France; Buffalo State College Art Conservation Department-New York;
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum-Boston; Winterthur Museum-Winterthur; Annual Meeting of
AIC; Art
Institute of Chicago-Chicago; Library of Congress-Washington D.C.
Anthology of works of Bob Feller:
"Contributions to Conservation
Science"
The Center has celebrated the 50th year of continuous
research dedicated to improving the preservation and caring of valuable art
collections and objects. In honor
of its founding director, Bob Feller, a commemorative book has been published by
the Carnegie press containing various reprints which best represent his
definitive work in the field. The book can be obtained through CMU
press, Archetype Books or Amazon.com.
Related Web sites:
AIC
Conservation On-line
Canadian Heritage Information Network
INCAA
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