1996 | Volume Four

Proceedings of the Objects Specialty Group Session
24th Annual Meeting in Norfolk, Virginia; June 14, 1996

Digital Imaging for Conservation; Environmental Standards: Research Findings and Implications; Collaborations in the Visual Arts

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Compiled by Virginia Greene and John Griswold

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Program Chair’s Foreword
John Griswold

Postprints abstracts

Conservation and collaboration to understand a tiponi
Nancy Odegaard

The use of thin-layer chromatography in the identification of historic artificially colored varnishes and glazes
Judith J. Bischoff, Scott W. Nolley and Jonathan Thornton

Development and implementation of a new method of wax application for outdoor sculpture using an airless sprayer
Nicolas F. Veloz

Developing the Australian Survey of Sculpture, Monuments and Outdoor Cultural Material
Donna Midwinter

Conservation of Howard Finster’s eccentric Bible House
Anton Rajer

Where east meets west: The conservation of a modern, large-scale, black lacquer sculpture exhibited in a public space
Ingrid A. Neuman and James S. Martin

Mounting ethnographic featherwork on mannequins: An exotic exercise in cooperation
Virginia Greene

Dowels, powder and cracks: Collaboration in the preservation of a 12th-century portal from Bordeaux
Barbara Mangum and Valentine Talland

Stained glass conservation at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: Putting the pieces together
Valentine Talland and Barbara Mangum

Unpublished presentation abstracts

Lost in Lloyds: A conservator in corporate America
Sharon D. Blank

Twenty-five years after the bomb: Maintaining Cleveland’s The Thinker
Bruce Christman

From surface to seismic: Conserving Rodin’s The Thinker in San Francisco
Elisabeth Cornu

The roles of the conservation scientist and the conservator in the development of treatments for painted objects
Eric F. Hansen and Rosa Lowinger

Rodin’s The Thinker at Philadelphia: A treatment using chelating agents
Andrew Lins

Collaboration in the treatment of Rodin’s The Thinker in Kansas City
Jonathan Taggart

The production of Rodin’s bronzes
Glenn Wharton