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Unframed Blog
| Feb 22, 2018
… or weddings. Amanda Burr, Mellon Fellow in LACMA’s Conservation Center, reinforcing thin areas of a Fijian tapa … treated prior to…
Unframed Blog
| Aug 11, 2014
… collections of Art of the Ancient Americas, European Painting, Latin American Art, Art of the Pacific, and South … Venice, lent by…
Unframed Blog
| Jan 13, 2010
… is to complement a work of art, not to compete with a painting’s inherent qualities. But a great frame can be a … very important…
Unframed Blog
| May 06, 2009
… through what seemed like a phone book-sized packet of conservation reports, it became clear that it's been …
Unframed Blog
| Dec 08, 2009
… of Tying 15.5 Million Knots December 8, 2009 Allison Agsten Conservation There’s a good chance that you have a modern … noted that…
Unframed Blog
| Sep 26, 2016
… installation of Alternative Dreams: 17th-Century Chinese Paintings from the Tsao Family Collection Behind the Scenes: … photograph…
Unframed Blog
| Dec 10, 2011
… (Shakyamuni) Preaching to the Assembly on Vulture Peak. The painting was acquired by LACMA in 1998 but has never been on view due…
Unframed Blog
| Feb 23, 2017
Since its 2012 installation in BCAM, Chris Burden’s Metropolis II has been a crowd favorite. This kinetic sculpture is modeled after the fast-paced,…
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 ...