by Serena Urry, Chief Conservator

2/15/2024

CAMConservation, Cezanne, paintings conservation, hidden paintings, X-ray, XRF macro-scan

Last month, three Northwestern scientists brought their highly specialized scanning and imaging equipment to the museum and spent a week in our Paintings/Objects lab.

by Serena Urry, Chief Conservator

12/7/2023

CAMConservation, paintings conservation, Weir, Twachtman, X-ray, hidden paintings

This small painting by American artist Julian Alden Weir (1852–1919) was donated to the museum by the artist in 1911.

by Serena Urry, Chief Conservator

12/15/2022

X-ray, CAMConservation, paintings conservation, Paul Cezanne

A few months ago, I posted about the complicated surface coatings on Cézanne’s Still Life with Bread and Eggs.” But what was going on under the surface was even more of a surprise.

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7/15/2021

CAMConservation, paintings conservation, X-ray, X-raying_paintings, X-radiography, hidden paintings

Our paintings conservator has been working on this very large 17th century Neapolitan still-life.

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5/19/2021

CAMConservation, paintings conservation, paintings, X-ray, X-radiography, X-raying_paintings, hidden paintings

Our painting conservator has been working on this very large 17th century Neapolitan still-life.

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3/25/2021

X-ray, X-radiography, conservation, x-raying paintings, paintings conservation, hidden paintings, CAMConservation

Our paintings conservator is examining this very large still-life in preparation for cleaning it.

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11/8/2019

behind the scenes, conservation, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, paintings conservation, oil on panel, Maria Oakey Dewing, X-ray, X-radiography, X-raying_paintings, Google Art Project

This tall narrow painting by a husband-and-wife pair is in the paintings conservation studio for removal of varnish and discolored retouching.

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1/10/2019

behind the scenes, conservation, X-ray, cuneiform tablets

In December our objects conservator traveled to Baker Hughes GE Inspection Technologies to get an in-depth look at some of our cuneiform tablets.

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7/3/2018

conservation, X-ray, behind the scenes

A few weeks ago when we had our GE digital x-ray demo running in the Conservation department, our objects conservator brought in the spectacular Railway Engine Coffeemaker for imaging.

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6/27/2018

behind the scenes, conservation, Zaragoza, retablo of saint peter, X-ray

Here’s a detail of one of the paintings from Zaragoza’s “Retablo of Saint Peter.” At left is the same detail in normal light, after conservation.

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8/11/2016

behind the scenes, Islamic, Pottery, Iraq, X-ray, objects conservation

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