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Unframed Blog
| Aug 17, 2016
… possible I enlisted the help of our conservators and conservation scientists, using the microscope, for example, … from Colombia…
Unframed Blog
| Mar 10, 2009
Poster Design by Franz West, based on Tiles Printed by Tamuna Sirbiladze, 2008
Unframed Blog
| Dec 22, 2021
… Associates/LACMA Kathryn Harada, Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, Paintings Conservation It was such an honor to be…
Unframed Blog
| Oct 01, 2021
… to work with Diva Zumaya, Assistant Curator of European Painting and Sculpture, in the development of her … I met with scientists…
Unframed Blog
| May 29, 2014
… Zurich . . . Even if you have seen most of these works—paintings drawings and prints—on the walls of museums … are being delivered…
Unframed Blog
| May 20, 2013
… As one of those 'former familiar children' I note the painting has had a clean, since certain detail wasn't nearly…
Unframed Blog
| Jun 14, 2016
… and senior objects conservator John Hirx with Lilia in the conservation lab What kinds of curatorial knowledge are you … that’s…
Unframed Blog
| May 21, 2015
… to the texture of a sculpture to inserting an image from a painting or pulling typography from a print.The designers of … were…
1920-1961 | Gelatin silver print
Paintings." <em>Facture: Conservation, Science, Art History</em> 5 (2021): 2-29. Curatorial Area: ...
1763 | Oil on canvas
Cabrera after the Conservation of His Casta Paintings.” <EM>Latin American and Latinx Visual ... pictorial genre known as <I>casta</I> (caste) painting. Created as sets of multiple images, the ... and Africans. The story the paintings tell, reinforced by the inscriptions, is that the mixture of ...
circa 1940 | Opaque watercolor on photograph; cardboard mount
pigments. The over painting of royal portraits (taken by both local and European photographers) ranged from ... obscured the original photograph. This exquisite painted photograph depicts Maharana Bhupal Singh (reigned ... unknown, an inscription below the portrait indicates the over painting was done by Chhaganlal Gaur (active ...
Qing dynasty, dated 1694 | Eight-leaf album, ink and color on paper
culture, adopting its more conservative institutions and a reactionary Confucianism. Despite this, and ... despite a period of civil unrest and political realignment, ceramics, architecture, and painting ... original and formally creative artists in all Chinese paintings. A descendant of Ming royalty, Shitao was ...
late 13th-early 14th century | Stucco, carved, traces of paint
public view Artwork Medium: Stucco, carved, traces of paint Full Title: Architectural Element Portfolio ... within borders of knotted strapwork. It was once painted in bright colors that now only survive in trace ... souvenirs of the visit, as several accounts relate. However, long-term conservation and restoration efforts ...
AD 1766–67/ AH 1180 | Wood (poplar) with gesso relief, tin and brass leaf, glazes and paint, plaster with stone paste inlays, and multicolored stones
Artist: Unknown Tags * Artwork Date(s): AD 1766–67/ AH 1180 Artwork Credit Line: Conservation ... conservation support was provided by the Friends of Heritage Preservation Artwork Accession Number: M.2014.33 ... glazes and paint, plaster with stone paste inlays, and multicolored stones Full Title: Damascus Room ...
1718 | Oil on canvas
affiliated with the Franciscans. He created this monumental painting as part of a Via Crucis (Way of the ... Virgin’s faces and blending the paint to a high finish (in contrast to the more impressionistic ... accompanying publication, cat. no. 7, pp. 54–57) Bibliographic Entry: Katzew, Ilona, ed. <EM>Painted in ...
circa 1643-1644 | Oil on canvas
A Mirror of Nature: Dutch Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Edward William Carter</em> ... Walsh, Amy L. <em>The Mr. and Mrs. Edward Carter Collection of Dutch Paintings</em>. Los ... _Collection_Dutch_Paintings">https://archive.org/details/Carter_Collection_Dutch_Paintings</a> ...
circa 1653 | Oil on canvas
<em>French Painting and Sculpture</em>. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2019. Marandel, ... European Painting Classification: Paintings Location Taxonomy: Offsite Room U.S. Art Copyright Text: ... conservation. Haut. 28 po[uces] 1/2, larg. 19 p[ouces] 1/2," sold for 301 frs. to); [Mathieu-François-Louis ...
1912 | Oil on canvas
delineation of form Hassam was more conservative in the window series than in his flag paintings of the same ... figures set in comfortable domestic interiors. The critic Royal Cortissoz referred to these paintings as ... an object. Often, as in this painting and Tanagra, 1918 (National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian ...
1903 | Oil on canvas | On View
conservators discovered the figure of a dog painted underneath what eventually became the woman and café table, ... in the characteristic blues and greens of Picasso’s other paintings from the Blue Period, while the ... unidentified woman wearing a red flower in her hair is much more hurriedly rendered. In 1975 LACMA’s painting ...
17th century, later restorations | Wood inlaid with bone, gold paint, varnish; iron fittings
public view Artwork Medium: Wood inlaid with bone, gold paint, varnish; iron fittings Full Title: ... Written in Nastaliq script, the couplets are painted in gold along the drop-down door’s exterior outer ... examination by LACMA’s Conservation Dept. suggests they may be later insertions and that the present ...
circa 1934 | Oil on canvas
adventuresome in his figure paintings, in his still lifes he remained conservative for a longer period of time. ... (88.27 x 112.87 cm) Earliest Date: 1932 Latest Date: 1936 Curator Notes: Weber painted still lifes ... through your tactile and spiritual intimacy" (p. 31). His still-life paintings of the 1920s and 1930s ...
circa 1931-1932 | Oil on canvas
painting and served as a link between his classical paintings of the 1920s and works based on his ... a diagram of his analysis of the composition’s directional rhythms was hung next to the painting. While ... was singled out in a dispute over modernism. A conservative group of protesting artists headed by Karl ...
1985 | Wood, tin, shards and pigment
Betye Saar and art conservator Richard Saar, Alison Saar grew up in a household filled with creative ... modernist master Henri Matisse (who is often associated with the color red due to his renowned painting ...
1925 | Oil on canvas | On View
leanings, Schrimpf is considered part of the more “conservative,” predominantly southern German contingent ... <i>Pittura Metafisica</i> (Metaphysical Painting) of artists including Giorgio de Chirico and Carlo ... representative of Europe’s new ‘mystical painting." About The Era: Historical Commentary: Handbook: ...
1668 | Oil on canvas on panel
Area: Latin American Art Classification: Paintings Exhibition History: Archive of the World: Art and ... Text: Photo © Museum Associates/ LACMA Conservation, by Yosi A. R-Pozeilov Provenance: Private ...
circa 1655 | Oil on wood panel
<p>Walsh, Jr., John., and Cynthis P. Schneider.<em> A Mirror of Nature: Dutch Paintings from the ... Dutch Paintings</em>. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2019. <a href="https ... ://archive.org/details/Carter_Collection_Dutch_Paintings">https://archive.org/details/Carter ...
1925 | Oil on canvas
Henri was supposed to paint the portrait in the summer of 1924, at the same time that WAYMAN ADAMS was ... originally scheduled to paint Mr. Harrison’s portrait, but Henri’s trip to Los Angeles was delayed until ... example of the artist’s late style. Instead of the thick, robust paint surface of his earlier paintings ...
circa 1875 | Oil on canvas
painting to a state of uniform finish. The clarity of vision and economy of means that produced such ... causing a multitude of fine, horizontal cracks to appear. Chase later may have painted over the ... background, hair, and costume in a uniform dark tone and again signed the painting. This is the way the ...