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- UD grad interns help preserve mummies, spacesuit, other cultural treasures
- Bringing a saintly portrait back to life in Missouri
- Conserving a knight's shield from ages past
- Käsebier photographs conserved at National Gallery of Canada
- Examining ancient Egyptian mummies at the Walters Art Museum
- Restoring Southwestern pottery at the Arizona State Museum
- Caring for Maryland's first settlement, Armstrong's spacesuit
- Preserving masterpieces at the Walters Art Museum
- 'Big Four' railroad magnate's paintings undergo conservation at Yale
- Studying indigo dyes at the Smithsonian
- Treating a Moorish Islamic ceiling at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Editor's note: The Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation is one of only five graduate-level conservation programs in the United States. Graduate students in the program spend their third year in an advanced internship at museums and studios around the world.
Here, Jessica Keister reports on her work at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, Ontario.
10:03 a.m., March 19, 2009----My internship at the National Gallery of Canada in photograph conservation is supervised by John McElhone. I have recently begun the treatment of a photograph by the American artist Gertrude Käsebier. Friends of the University of Delaware Gallery may recognize her name, as the University Museums has a large collection of photographs by Käsebier. It's curious that I would be hundreds of miles away from UD and end up working on a photograph by Gertrude Käsebier!
My other projects have included preparing a photograph by Lewis Hine for exhibition, stabilizing several early American daguerreotypes and completing condition reports for dozens of photographs by Lewis Feininger.
My fellow intern from the Pantheon-Sorbonne conservation program in Paris and I recently completed the documentation of a 19th-century photograph album containing over 160 prints in preparation for the gallery's upcoming acquisition of the album.