Emerging Conservation Professional
Painting Conservation Internship
Winterthur Museum, Library & Garden
Greenville, DE
During the fall semester of 2018, I had the opportunity to participate as an intern in painting conservation at Winterthur Museum's Painting Conservation Studio under the supervision of Dr. Joyce Hill Stoner. Throughout the internship, I worked on multiple projects and improved my conservation hand-skills. Scroll down to see photos of my work, or follow the link at the bottom of the page to see more detailed accounts of my projects.
My projects included:
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Preparing a sealed-package pressure mount for the display and storage of a shattered silk flag.
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Inpainting the losses and plaster fills of a fire-damaged frame using Golden PVA paints.
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Inpainting the losses of a Thai wood-panel painting using aquazol-based Core Colors paints.
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Conducting a condition report of a painting.
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Creating an annotated bibliography on the field of painting conservation.
The skills I learned and improved upon in this internship included:
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Loss compensation & inpainting
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Frame-felting
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Analysis of a painting under different types of illumination
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Conducting a thread count of a canvas
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Writing a condition report
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Photographic documentation
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Consolidating loose paint
Below are files containing more information on my projects from this internship.
Condition Report of a Painting
Inpainting a Frame
Mounting a Shattered Flag
