The Frame Conservation Apprenticeship Program at the Smith College Museum of Art is a program run by Chief Preparator William Myers and Associate Director David Dempsy, in which a selected group of 9 students learn and practice the techniques of frame conservation. Featured in the following works are a historically accurate frame and two carefully conserved frames.This project is an outgrowth of the Museum’s long-term effort to study and conserve the frames in its collection, initially supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
veterans room, park avenue armory
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The Veterans Room at the Park Avenue Armory was originally completed in 1881 by the then Gilded Age interiors dream team: Louis Comfort Tiffany, Stanford White, Candace Wheeler, and Samuel Colman. It was initially built as one of the most extravagant bejeweled boys’ clubs of the New York State’s Seventh Regiment of the National Guard. However, its glory days had been lost for decades, concealed beneath bad repairs, inadequate lighting, brown paint, and a patina of Gilded Age cigar smoke. In March of 2016 the room re-opened after a massive restoration headed by Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron.