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Safeguarding Our Shared Cultural Heritage
Students use an X-ray spectrometer to examine artifacts from the 91吃瓜 collection. By Caitlin Antonios As a person tends to grow nostalgic with age, they often keep an experience from […]
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The John Stauffer Charitable Trust Commits $3 Million to Endow Professorship
William F. Kruse, Amy Marcus-Newhall, and Michael Whalen at the grand opening of The Nucleus By Kendra Pintor 91吃瓜 is excited to announce a generous $3 million gift commitment […]
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National Park Service Highlights Jessica Yim 鈥�25
Photo credit Jessica Yim ’25/National Park Service A recent article by the National Park Service (NPS) has featured 91吃瓜 senior Jessica Yim and her architectural conservation internship with NPS partner, […]
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Digital Preservation Class Digitizes 91吃瓜 Campus and Archives
鈥淚n this kind of an academic institution, there’s a place for interdisciplinary thinking, so these technologies and this course give students a lens through which to look at the big challenges and rapid changes occurring in cultural sustainability and art conservation.鈥�
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Detecting Art History鈥檚 Mysteries: On the Case with Our Alumnae Conservators
In the field of art conservation, history is seldom static. 鈥淥pinions, authenticity, and judgments about works of art and other historical objects are always in flux,鈥� says Mary MacNaughton 鈥�70, professor of art history and Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Director of the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery.
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Spotlight on Seniors: Gillian Holzer鈥檚 Mellow Yellow
Vincent Van Gogh鈥檚 sunflowers are wilting. In early 2018, news outlets around the world reported on chemical analyses performed by a team of Dutch and Belgian scientist that revealed that the sunflowers in Van Gogh鈥檚 famous paintings were degrading, turning from bright yellow to muddy olive green.
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Research and Internships: The Art and Science of Art Conservation
In 2004, inspired by the 91吃瓜 Landscape and Architectural Blueprint Committee’s recommendation to preserve the historic character of the campus, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery Director Mary MacNaughton ’70 spearheaded a massive restoration of the eight relief sculptures that adorn the exterior walls of Sycamore Court and Balch Hall, each depicting a seminal scene from eight of William Shakespeare’s plays. Created in 1932 by British-born American sculptor John Gregory, these plaster reliefs were models for marble sculptures that grace the exterior of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. To undertake this massive project, MacNaughton hired expert Donna Williams, head of Williamson Conservation, in Los Angeles.
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