Art Conservator Spring 2009 issue

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The Great Society
  An exuberant assemblage from the 1960s leads to an overlooked master
  Complete interview with Mary Bauermeister (pdf)
Tinned Americana 
  Lenett Fellow discovers the secrets of an early tavern sign

Frankenstein Undead
  A seminal work by Tim Rollins and K.O.S. is brought back to life

WACC News & Notes
  In Pop style, grim frames from the past
  WACC hosts Mongolian conservators
  Treatment Report: Augustus Saint-Gaudens
  A George Lawton stand

Report from Atlanta
  Florine Stettheimer paints a still life

Tech Notes
  Preservation strategies for East Asian paintings

About the magazine

Art Conservator, the magazine of the Williamstown Art Conservation Center, was launched in 2006 to inform and educate our members and the greater WACC community on the work at the Center and on art conservation issues in general. Art conservation is a crossroads of esthetics, science, history and commerce, and each issue of Art Conservator chronicles the intermingling of these elements in the care of artworks and our cultural patrimony. With articles that are accessible to the general reader, full color photography and innovative features, the twice-a-year magazine highlights important treatments at the Center, explaining conservation processes and addressing technical, intellectual and ethical questions facing 21st-century conservators.  Each issue contains a Technical Bulletin, prepared by one of WACC’s staff conservators, delving in depth into an issue facing museum professionals and others involved with cultural objects.

Art Conservator is distributed free to WACC members, friends and past clients, as well as to numerous museums and art libraries across the country and in Canada, Europe and beyond. Institutions may request to become part of our mailing list; among those we have recently added include the Frick Collection, Yale University Art Museum, Amon Carter Museum and the National Library of Argentina in Buenos Aires.

For more information, contact Art Conservator editor Timothy Cahill at tcahill@williamstownart.org