TECHNICAL BULLETINS


Technical Bulletins are written by our staff conservators, focusing on a topic of importance to museum professionals and others working with cultural objects. 

The articles present research or observations over multidisciplines pertaining to conservation techniques, preservation, and artists materials, practices and techniques. This serves as a resource for conservators, conservation scientists, art historians, collectors and curators.

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2018

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Native American Beadwork | Part One: History, Materials, and Construction | Nora Frankel

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Benjamin Champney’s Drawings of the White Mountains | Brook Prestowitz

 

2017

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Removal Strategies for Lead-based Adhesive | Maggie Barkovic

 

2016

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Panel-Back Stretchers and Backing Boards | Mary Holland

 

2016

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LED Lighting in the Museum Setting | Rachel Childers

 

2015

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An Overview of Scientific Techniques in the Technical Analysis of Paintings | Luisa Hammond

 

2014

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Colormen and their Marks: A survey of nineteenth-century European Paintings in the Clark Art Institute | Sandra Webber

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Care and Use of Nineteenth-century American Gilded Picture Frames | Hugh Glover

 

2013

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Collection and Preservation of Oversized Photographs | Laura Downey Staneff

 

2012

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Description of Original Picture Frames on Watercolors by Charles Burchfield | Hugh Glover

 

Up Close and Illuminated: Artist’s Methods and Materials in the Manton Collection | Leslie Paisley

 

2011

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Supports for Textile Display: Overview and Strategies for Flat Objects | Allison McCloskey

 

2010

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Historic Mercury Amalgam Mirrors: History, Safety, and Preservation | Kathleen Payne de Chavez

 

Simple Non-Adhesive Methods for Conservation Mounting of Photographs | Jennifer McGlinchey

 

2009

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Preservation Strategies for East Asian Painting | Leslie Paisley and Amanda Malkin

 

2008

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Technical Imaging of Paintings | Sandra Webber

 

2007

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Annual Maintenance Programs for Outdoor Sculpture | Katherine A. Holbrow

 

A Comparison of Glazing Materials Used in Framing | Leslie Paisley

 

2006

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Care and Use of 19th-century American Gilded Picture Frames | Hugh Glover