3/9/2023
Paper conservation often involves undoing repairs by others who don’t have the knowledge or materials needed to best preserve the art. I recently examined a drawing by Cincinnati artist John Ruthven (1924 – 2020) with a long tear that had been mended with pressure sensitive tape, often referred to as “Scotch tape.”
2/9/2023
A larger portion of the painting is currently on view in New York until May 7, after which the scroll will travel to the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco and be on exhibit June 16–September 18, 2023.
1/11/2023
See these and other woodcut prints (including Himeji Castle in the Morning, a variation of the print seen here) by seven members of the talented Yoshida family spanning most of the twentieth century until April 9, 2023.
11/1/2022
It truly takes a team to make an exhibition. This
8/11/2022
The lesser-known book, The Book of Thel, is now featured in an exhibit in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
5/19/2022
Our paper conservator’s challenge is to remove enough yellow discoloration from the paper so that it is closer to its original color and more closely matches the other prints in the group.
4/21/2022
Mexican Printmakers 1920s to 1950s is on display until August 14, where you can see this print and learn about Aguirre and his fellow artists.
3/24/2022
A group of illustrations of Brothers Grimm fairy tales were prepared for matting.
10/28/2021
Shown here is a painting by Wu Zhongxiong that was selected by the Curator of Asian art to include in our next grant application.
9/30/2021
The print is now on its way to the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C. with three other Cincinnati Art Museum pieces for exhibit in Sargent, Whistler, and Venetian Glass: American Artists and the Magic of Murano.
6/10/2021
Early this year the museum was given this portrait of the 17th century English writer Dr. Samuel Johnson.
5/13/2021
Our paper conservator and our curator of East Asian art have been examining paintings from storage so we can add information to the curatorial and conservation files.
4/15/2021
This print came to the paper lab because the original framing method had encouraged distortions to form across the top of the paper.
9/10/2020
An amazing transformation took place this summer in the Paper Lab.
8/6/2020
In celebration of his 133rd birthday, let’s take a closer look at Duchamp’s intaglio print of a cubist-style coffee grinder currently undergoing conservation in the Paper Lab.
7/9/2020
This year the Cincinnati Art Museum is again supporting the Contemporary Arts Center by lending a book to their newly opened exhibit, “Tania Candiani: Sounding Labor, Silent Bodies”.
6/18/2020
Staff members have been very active in the museum galleries for the past month. One of the cases that was due for its regular rotation is the hanging scroll case in Gallery 138.
5/14/2020
Our paper conservator has not been in the lab since March, but she is still working on the collection.
3/19/2020
Our paper conservator has been in the darkroom capturing images of watermarks from some of our Old Master prints.
12/5/2019
This drawing recently came to the paper lab to have some old paper remnants removed. The drawing is on the back of a letter, and some of the writing was obscured.
10/31/2019
Oil paintings do not usually come to the Paper Lab, but occasionally the conservators share projects, and that is the case here.
8/8/2019
Sometimes an artist presents us with something that looks good from the front, but when we turn it over we notice that there are problems that can’t be seen when the art is hanging on a wall.
6/13/2019
This month a new group of paintings is on display in the Indian gallery.
5/16/2019
A group of Japanese prints depicting women wearing elaborate garments was recently in the paper lab.
4/18/2019
Between doing conservation treatments for upcoming exhibitions, our paper conservator and her intern are working on a group of documents from the Mary R. Schiff Library and Archives.
3/21/2019
Kenyon Cox was both a student and a teacher at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. His drawing Satyr and Two Children from 1876 passed through the Paper Lab on its way to the exhibition.
11/6/2018
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8/16/2018
This page from a Qur’an was written in the 13th century in Spain.
7/19/2018
ur paper conservator is spending the summer looking very closely at intriguing documents that will soon be on view in Collecting Calligraphy: Arts of the Islamic World.
5/24/2018
This spring in paper conservation, we’re looking at a print of Cincinnati, a view of the city from across the river in Kentucky.