Behind the Scenes in Conservation: A chemical peel?
3/14/2024
As paintings conservators, we may use chemicals, but we certainly don’t give facials.
Behind the Scenes in Conservation: The Approaching Storm
7/5/2023
Another work recently conserved for the British catalog project, The Approaching Storm by English artist Thomas Barker (1769–1847), presented a challenge.
Behind the Scenes in Conservation: A Seemingly Innocuous British Portrait
6/8/2023
When I read the curatorial file for this painting, I discovered a remarkably expansive biography, not just of the painting itself, but also of the sitter and the artist. What is most interesting to me, though, is the sitter’s story.
Behind the Scenes in Conservation: Another British Invasion!
2/16/2023
These three portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds (British, 1723–1792) have come out of storage and into the conservation lab for the museum’s British catalog project . They are due to be examined, and perhaps treated, before heading to our photography department for high resolution imaging.
A New Korean Tiger Painting
2/1/2022
As the king of beasts in China, the tiger is also one of the oldest and most meaningful animal subjects in Chinese painting. Here, the unidentified artist portrays a large tigress sitting under an old pine tree.
Christmas Day 147 Years Ago
12/24/2021
The Property of L. A. Parrett is one of Dousa’s most elaborate paintings. It reveals details of life in the rural Midwest that surely delighted his successful clientele and seem to take us back in time.
Walter Farmer: Cincinnati's Own "Monuments Man"
8/6/2021
Although perhaps best known for his wartime service, a new donation of papers and photographs to the Mary R. Schiff Library & Archives is helping to shed light on Walter Farmer’s life and work beyond the Monuments Men.
Cincinnati Art Museum 2020 Exhibition Schedule
12/18/2019
The Cincinnati Art Museum is open on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. Kick off 2020 with a visit to the museum and see special exhibition Treasures of the Spanish World before it closes on January 19.
Behind the Scenes in Conservation: An Intern’s Experience
6/19/2019
Conservation preparation for the upcoming Duveneck exhibition (opening Fall 2020).
Out from storage: French portraits
7/13/2018
About a month ago the Cincinnati Art Museum welcomed two new faces into our nineteenth-century European galleries – a girl with a song book in her lap and young man in uniform.
Behind the Scenes in Conservation: Corot completed!
4/4/2018
This portrait by French artist Jean Baptiste-Camille Corot has been on the blog before and now treatment of the painting and frame are finished.
Let’s Go to the Movies!
3/21/2018
Posted by: Julie Aronson, Curator of American Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings
Meet Mr. and Mrs. Perkins!
6/13/2017
Posted by: Julie Aronson, Curator of American Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings
Behind the Scenes in Conservation: Zaragoza’s Retablo of Saint Peter
2/18/2016
Posted By: Conservation
Art in Bloom 2015 highlights Cincinnati Public Schools Art Collection
7/26/2015
Posted By: Becky Linhardt
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