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A watercolor with figures in costume. Three female figures are grouped together at left wearing long black, pink, and blue dresses, respectively. In the center background is the figure of a circus-ring mistress dressed in black holding a whip. At right, is a man dressed in a white costume with wings and hooves and hanging around his neck is a female figure in a dark gray dress with writing on it.

Conserving the Hartford Festival Collage

A collage from 1936 by the surrealist Pavel Tchelitchew recently underwent conservation treatment to address its brittle paper components and fragile layers of gouache.

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Amanda Kasman using a swap to clean the surface of the panel painting, which rests on a black table in the conservation lab.

Uncovering the Restoration History of the "Medical School Portrait"

Guided by the findings of an extensive technical analysis, conservators cleaned a panel painting, referred to as the “Medical School Portrait,” bringing it closer to the artist’s original vision.

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Conservator using a brush to treat Hale Woodruff’s painting, the Card Players.

Technical Examination of Hale Woodruff's Card Players

Card Players by the American artist and educator Hale Woodruff, an important recent addition to the Gallery’s collection, received treatment for minor condition issues in the conservation lab.

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Maternity figure sculpture at the entrance to the African art galleries.

Conservation of an Urhobo Maternity Figure

Conservators were able to devote time to the repair of a Urhobo figure of a nursing mother during the Gallery’s closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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a group of painted figures surround a black horse whose tail hair is being cut off. Above and below the image is script

Transforming Discolored Pigments in a 16th-Century Persian Watercolor

Conservators worked with conservation scientists at Yale’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage to restore the vibrancy of a painting that had become darkened and discolored over time.

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Painting of a mother and child

Infrared Examination of Botticelli's Virgin and Child

Following a full cleaning and limited restoration, the Virgin and Child was reexamined with infrared reflectography using an InGaAs camera.

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Two people looking closely at a painting, the person in the foreground has a brush in their hand

Conserving Abbey

Edwin Austin Abbey’s 12-foot round study for The Passage of the Hours was among the works that underwent treatment for an upcoming exhibition.

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