Proceedings of the Objects Specialty Group Session
30th Annual Meeting in Miami, Florida
June 10, 2002

Compiled by Virginia Greene and Patricia Griffin

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Postprints abstracts and articles

• Program Chair’s Foreword
  Patricia Griffin

• On-line survey results of techniques used for outdoor bronze conservation
  Tara J. Shedlosky, Kimberly M. Stanek, and Gordon Bierwagen

• Ten years of sculpture and monument conservation on the Minnesota State Capitol Mall
  Paul S. Storch

• Aesthetics, conservation and maintenance of outdoor bronzes
  W. T. Chase

• Three case studies of outdoor sculpture with problematic intent issues
  Michael Belman

• An opportunity taken: The project design for a technical study of 26 bronzes in the exhibition Adriaen de Vries: Imperial Sculptor at the J. Paul Getty Museum
  Jane Bassett

• Non-destructive deconstruction of the Lidow fang hu on pedestal
  Laramie Hickey-Friedman

• Image recovery of worn-off hallmarks on silver and gold objects
  Paul L. Benson and Robert S. Gilmore

• Four beakers or two beakers? Only your conservator knows for sure…
  Stephen P. Koob

• Mina’i wares: Discovery of a 13th century Islamic ceramic transfer technology
  John Hirx

• A technological study of the painted surfaces of Zapotec urns from Xoxocotlán
  Samantha Alderson

• A review of ultra-violet light and examination techniques
  Laramie Hickey-Friedman

• Demystifying silica gel
  Steven Weintraub

Unpublished presentation abstracts

• Recreating Taft’s ideas in surface finish: Treatment of the Fountain of Time
  Andrzej Dajnowski

• An alternative to chemical repatination of copper alloy outdoor sculpture
  Ron Harvey

• War in the Pacific Memorial: Who is the public in public art?
  Brigid Sullivan Lopez

• Balancing durability and aesthetics in the treatment of painted outdoor sculpture
  Abigail Mack, Angela Chang and Shelley Sturman

• Love and war: Issues in the technical study of two Roman bronzes in the Getty Museum
  Jeff Maish

• The lamentation and resurrection: Reflections on the creation, history and restoration of the Lamentation Over the Dead Christ by Giovanni della Robbia and Studio
  Barbara J. Mangum

• Issues of contemporary patination on outdoor bronze sculpture
  Joanna Rowntree

• Contemporary approaches to the care of outdoor bronze
  John Scott

Abstracts* for joint session with Textiles Specialty Group

*By agreement with the Textile Specialty Group (TSG), full papers are published as the Textile Specialty Group (TSG) Postprints, vol. 12 (2002). TSG members have access to the complete digital archive of TSG Postprints in the “Publications” folder in the library of the TSG Online Community. It is necessary to sign in to access these files. Non-members can purchase PDF copies of past volumes in the AIC Store.

• Initial investigation into a resinous Maya burial shroud

  Candis Griggs

• Textile fragments associated with flaked stone symbols from the Maya site of Altun Ha, Belize

  Jill Plitnikas

• Severely degraded textiles on archaeological artifacts at the Agora excavations in Athens, Greece

  Julie Unruh

• The conservation of a third century BCE Chinese bronze dagger-axe with organic remains

  Ellen D. B. Tully

• Rhapsody in blue: Kingfisher feather cloisonné in the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

  Ellen Salzman Chase and Blythe McCarthy

• Conserving the Wright Brothers’ 1905 Flyer III: An interdisciplinary and logistical challenge
  Deborah Bede and Malcolm Collum

• The conservation of Frederic E. Church’s leather arm chair

  Deborah Lee Trupin

• Identification of potential changes to ethnographic artifacts from low temperature pest management

  Ellen Carrlee

• Collaborative treatment for a Miami robe with silk ribbonwork and metal decoration

  Mika Takami, Susan Heald, and Jessica Johnson

• Saving America’s treasures: Threatened artifacts from the Apollo Era

  Lisa Young

• Conservation through investigation: Uncovering the story of a Japanese ceremonial doll

  Lara Kaplan

• Preparing for a masterpiece in focus: The conservation treatment and technical investigation of four Spanish processional sculptures from the early 18th-century

  Maureen Russell