Celebrate Your Union, Support Great Art
10/24/2024
Whether planning a lavish party or a more intimate get-together, holding your wedding at the Cincinnati Art Museum helps support our mission of inspiring people and connecting communities through the power of art.
Behind the Scenes in Conservation: Investigating a Chuck Close Print
8/22/2024
Denison Museum at Denison University (Granville, Ohio) will show nine Cincinnati Art Museum pieces in different media from August 29 to November 29, 2024, in their exhibition Portraying Identity .
Behind the Scenes in Conservation: Brightening up a George Bellows Print
7/25/2024
One of Bellow’s larger lithographs, Introducing John L. Sullivan, is torn in places along its right side; these tears could worsen with handling if not mended.
What are you looking at? Conserving a Portrait of a Young Anne Bellows
5/30/2024
To help this artwork look her best for CAM’s fall exhibition, George Bellows: American Life in Print, she stopped by the Paper Lab for conservation treatment.
Behind the Scenes in Conservation: More than Just a Print
4/5/2024
Two prints by Lesley Dill featured in the recent post by Curator of Prints Kristin Spangenberg are now on view in Gallery 150. While preparing the prints for framing, I had the opportunity to examine them closely and photograph details that reveal the artist’s creative use of materials.
Behind the Scenes in Conservation: Innovator of Printing and Design
3/7/2024
Two prints by Willim Hentschel came through the paper lab with old hinges and pressure sensitive tapes. The artist’s work is unlike any other in the collection.
Behind the Scenes in Conservation: Preparing Woo Chong Yung for Display
2/8/2024
Preparations are well underway for the upcoming exhibition From Shanghai to Ohio: Woo Chong Yung (1898-1989). In fact, we have been developing the show for more than four years.
Behind the Scenes in Conservation: Treatment of Cincinnati’s Galt House
1/11/2024
In my post of November 30, I promised to explain what it took to improve the appearance and the mechanical condition of Emil Klauprecht’s 1830s lithograph, Galt House.
Behind the Scenes in Conservation: Traveling for the Holidays?
11/30/2023
At first glance it is obvious the print has had a rough life.
Behind the Scenes in Conservation: View of the Museum on the Hill
9/28/2023
An interesting artifact has entered the museum Archives, courtesy of Archivist/Records Manager Geoff Edwards. This glass paperweight holds a small photograph of the museum and the Cincinnati Art Academy (now located downtown).
Behind the Scenes in Conservation: Reflection by Raphael Soyer
8/31/2023
In 2019 and 2020 the museum received three prints by American artist Raphael Soyer (1899–1987), the first of his prints to enter the museum’s collection.
Behind the Scenes in Conservation: Mounting Many Mini Prints
8/3/2023
Over a couple of weeks, I examined, cleaned, and rehoused a series of sixteenth-century prints by Léonard Gaultier (circa 1561–circa 1630).
Behind the Scenes in Conservation: Taking Care of Japanese Prints
6/30/2023
In 2005 the museum received a gift of Japanese art that includes ceramics, paintings, and prints. Now that our Curator of Prints Kristin Spangenberg has finished researching the 35 prints in this gift, I am reviewing their needs before moving them to their permanent storage locations.
Behind the Scenes in Conservation: Unfurling the Cincinnati Map
6/1/2023
This week, the museum installed a twenty-first century take on the monumental “roll-up” map.
Behind the Scenes in Conservation: Cincinnati 1954
4/6/2023
A recent bequest of 20th-century American prints and paintings includes this view of Cincinnati by Laurence Sisson (1928–2015). Painted in watercolor with pen and black ink, the scene captures downtown buildings overlooking the Ohio River as Sisson saw them in 1954.
Behind the Scenes in Conservation: John Ruthven’s Flying Quail
3/9/2023
Paper conservation often involves undoing repairs by others who don’t have the knowledge or materials needed to best preserve the art. I recently examined a drawing by Cincinnati artist John Ruthven (1924 – 2020) with a long tear that had been mended with pressure sensitive tape, often referred to as “Scotch tape.”
Behind the Scenes in Conservation: A Sinner’s Journey
2/9/2023
A larger portion of the painting is currently on view in New York until May 7, after which the scroll will travel to the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco and be on exhibit June 16–September 18, 2023.
Behind the Scenes in Conservation: Protecting a Nearly 100-year-old Japanese Print
1/11/2023
See these and other woodcut prints (including Himeji Castle in the Morning, a variation of the print seen here) by seven members of the talented Yoshida family spanning most of the twentieth century until April 9, 2023.
Behind the Scenes in Conservation: Installing the Wedding Procession
11/1/2022
It truly takes a team to make an exhibition. This
Behind the Scenes in Conservation: The Book of Thel
8/11/2022
The lesser-known book, The Book of Thel, is now featured in an exhibit in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Behind the Scenes in Conservation: Emperor Maximilian I
6/15/2022
When private owners generously allow the museum to display their pieces, the conservators sometimes need to put a little effort into stabilizing them before they go into the gallery. This was the case with a monumental woodcut print by Albrecht Dürer that will soon be seen in the Unlocking an Art Deco Bedroom by Joseph Urban exhibit.
Behind the Scenes in Conservation: Glue Be Gone
5/19/2022
Our paper conservator’s challenge is to remove enough yellow discoloration from the paper so that it is closer to its original color and more closely matches the other prints in the group.
Behind the Scenes in Conservation: Mexican Girl by Jose Ignacio Aquirre
4/21/2022
Mexican Printmakers 1920s to 1950s is on display until August 14, where you can see this print and learn about Aguirre and his fellow artists.
Behind the Scenes in Conservation: Once upon a time…
3/24/2022
A group of illustrations of Brothers Grimm fairy tales were prepared for matting.
Behind the Scenes in Conservation: Blast Off!
3/17/2022
The Fashion and Textile Collection has a new gift! And it’s part of a set!
Behind the Scenes in Conservation: Two Squirrels on a Pine Branch
10/28/2021
Shown here is a painting by Wu Zhongxiong that was selected by the Curator of Asian art to include in our next grant application.
Behind the Scenes in Conservation: Busy Hands in Paper Conservation
9/30/2021
The print is now on its way to the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C. with three other Cincinnati Art Museum pieces for exhibit in Sargent, Whistler, and Venetian Glass: American Artists and the Magic of Murano.
Behind the Scenes in Conservation: Meet Dr. Johnson
6/10/2021
Early this year the museum was given this portrait of the 17th century English writer Dr. Samuel Johnson.
Behind the Scenes in Conservation: East Asian Artworks
5/13/2021
Our paper conservator and our curator of East Asian art have been examining paintings from storage so we can add information to the curatorial and conservation files.
Behind the Scenes in Conservation: 1011 Jerome Street, Cincinnati by Thom Shaw
4/15/2021
This print came to the paper lab because the original framing method had encouraged distortions to form across the top of the paper.
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