by Serena Urry, Chief Conservator

3/14/2024

CAMConservation, British portraiture, paintings conservation, Henry Raeburn, British catalog project, CAM British Painting catalog, CAM British Paintings

As paintings conservators, we may use chemicals, but we certainly don’t give facials.

by Serena Urry, Chief Conservator

7/5/2023

CAMConservation, paintings conservation, Thomas Barker, CAM British Painting catalog, CAM British Paintings

Another work recently conserved for the British catalog project, The Approaching Storm by English artist Thomas Barker (1769–1847), presented a challenge.

by Kristopher Reisser, Conservation Intern

6/8/2023

CAMConservation, paintings conservation, cam intern, mather brown, portrait, European Paintings

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.

by Serena Urry, Chief Conservator

2/16/2023

CAMConservation, paintings conservation, Sir Joshua Reynolds, portrait, British catalog project, European Paintings

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.

by Trisha Brockmeyer & Geoff Edwards

8/6/2021

Paintings, Politics and the Monument’s Men: The Berlin Masterpieces, Monuments Men, Walter Farmer, Mary R. Schiff Library and Archives, Trisha Brockmeyer, Geoff Edwards, archives, Cincinnati history, World War II

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.

by Kaitlyn Sharo, Marketing & Communications Manager

12/18/2019

The Levee: A Photographer in the American South, Women Breaking Boundaries, “Something Over Something Else”: Romare Bearden’s Profile Series, Gorham Silver: Designing Brilliance 1850–1970, One Each: Still Lifes by Pissaro, Cézanne, Manet & Friends, Paintings, Politics and the Monument’s Men: The Berlin Masterpieces, Hank Willis Thomas: All Things Being Equal…

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.

by Peter Jonathan Bell, Associate Curator of European Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings

7/13/2018

French Portraits, European Paintings, Curatorial Blog

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.