As I arrive at the Brooklyn Museum early on a Monday morning, conservators and conservators-in-training are reviewing the developments of the previous week, readying themselves for the tasks that lie ahead as they continue to research, clean, and restore objects from the museum's extensive collection.
Some original furniture — including chairs, tables and a Clementi-made fortepiano played by Hamilton's daughter — is here, but so are reproductions, including one, of Hamilton's desk, just completed by Fallon & Wilkinson, cabinetmakers and conservators in Baltic, Conn., after the original at the Museum of the City of New York.
Noah Charney reported on the vital work of art historians and conservators in protecting and elucidating the Ghent Altarpiece, one of the most glorious paintings in Europe (The miracle of Ghent, G2, 13 October).
It is a lingering bastion of patronage, funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to lawyers who serve as guardians and conservators in thousands of estate cases.
Fallon & Wilkinson, cabinetmakers and conservators in Baltic, Conn., have reproduced Hamilton's furniture based on originals that were scattered after he died in a duel with Aaron Burr in 1804.
And so for the Guggenheim curators and conservators involved in the Kandinsky research, the discovery raised many questions.
In 2013, the International Institute for Conservation held a workshop at the University of Amsterdam on 3D scanning and 3D printing to train conservators in the use of RP for conservation applications.
Mr. Squires, 48, is one of the few high-end furniture conservators in the state, and the one the museum's decorative arts curator, Ulysses Dietz, trusts.
These samples were removed by conservators in the first half of the 1960s before conservation treatment, which was usually the application of a wax resin lining.
Kayan Pandole, who works exclusively with paintings, studied in Florence, for example, while one of the few paper conservators in the country, Saloni Ghuwalewala, earned a master's degree in art conservation at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.
