| EDUCATION |
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1942-54: |
St. Mary’s Episcopal School, Memphis, TN (1942-1949) |
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1950-54: |
East High School, Memphis, TN (1950-1954) |
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1954-58: |
Wellesley College, BA, Art History |
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1959-60: |
Memphis Academy of Arts, studio sculpture study |
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1960-66: |
New York University, Institute of Fine Arts, MA, Art History and Art Conservation |
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1962-63: |
Fulbright Fellowship, Institut Royal du Patrimoine Artistique, Brussels, Belgium. Technical examination and conservation treatment of mediaeval polychrome wood sculpture with Paul Coremans and Jean Thyssen. |
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1965-67: |
Conservation Intern, Istituto Centrale del Restauro, Rome, Italy. Studied under Paolo and Laura Mora and Giovanni Urbani. Participated in the conservation treatment of three large oil paintings by Caravaggio from the Church of S. Luigi dei Francesi; worked on ancient frescoes from the Aula Isiaca on the Palatine Hill. |
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1990-93: |
Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, MA, M.Div., Pastoral Theology |
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1994-94: |
St. Louis University, graduate study in theology |
| OCCUPATIONAL HISTORY |
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1958-59: |
Conservation Assistant and Secretary for Music Programs, Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA. Conservation treatment of a range of objects in a variety of materials; conducted tours of the museum collection; secretarial work for music programs. |
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1959-60: |
Instructor of Drawing, Memphis Academy of Art, Memphis, TN |
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1961 (Spring): |
Assistant in painting conservation, Caroline Keck, Brooklyn, NY |
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1961 (Summer and Fall): |
Part-time assistant in conservation of rare books, Grolier Club, with Carolyn Horton, NY |
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1961 (Summer): |
Part-time assistant in conservation of paintings from the Rockefeller collection under Jean Volkmer and Tosca Zagni, Museum of Modern Art, NY |
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1972-73: |
Rome, Italy. Research for a paper on the state-of-the-art of outdoor bronze and stone sculpture conservation |
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1973-1982: |
Research Associate and Director of the Conservation Laboratory, Center for Archaeometry, Department of Physics, Washington University, St. Louis, MO. Co-Principal Investigator in a three-year research project funded by the National Endowment for the Arts with local matching funds to undertake research in the technical examination and conservation of outdoor bronze and stone sculpture. Directed the conservation laboratory and coordinated the research and treatment. The Center for Archaeometry was the first conservation laboratory in the United States devoted to the conservation of sculpture with a particular emphasis on outdoor bronzes. The lab pioneered new approaches to technical examination and treatment of outdoor bronzes. Presented numerous lectures in the United States and abroad and numerous publications. |
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1982-1993: |
Technical Director and Chief Conservator, Washington University Technology Associates (WUTA, Inc.), St. Louis, MO, specializing in the conservation of sculpture. Undertook major projects throughout the United States for museums, cities and individuals, including Cities of St. Louis (survey and treatment of all sculpture); St. Louis Art Museum treatment of major sculptures); Chicago (general survey plus treatment of major works); Richmond, VA (general survey and treatment of major works); National Park Service (2 major bronzes in NY); Central Park Conservancy (survey of Central Park sculpture and treatment of four sculptures); Prospect Park, Brooklyn (one sculpture); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, sculpture garden; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, sculpture garden; St. Louis, MO; and other projects. |
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1995-96: |
part-time position as Director of Spiritual Formation, Church of St. Michael and St. George, Episcopal, St. Louis, MO |
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1996-1997: |
Two two-week campaigns as Consulting Conservator with Art Historian, Virginia Bonito on the conservation of a marble sculpture by Andrea Sansovino and fresco by Raphael in the church of Sant’Agostino, Rome |
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2000-2003: |
Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University, Summer course for three consecutive Summers in Maastricht at the Stichting Restauratie Atelier Limburg (SRAL) entitled “The Painter’s Palette in the 16th and 17th Centuries”, studying historic painting techniques. |
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2001 (Spring semester): |
Adjunct faculty position at Webster University in the Department of Religious Studies teaching an undergraduate course on theology and the visual arts |
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2002 Summer: |
taught workshops with Karen Bauer for the docents, family programs, and course for adults on 17th century Italian painting techniques for the St. Louis Art Museum in connection with the exhibition “Orazio an Artemisia Gentileschi” |
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2001 Spring semester: |
Adjunct faculty position at Webster University in the Department of Religious Studies teaching an undergraduate course on theology and the visual arts |
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2001: |
Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam and RKD in The Hague, two-week course, “Recent Developments in the Study of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art”. |
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2001-present: |
Established Northern Light Studio, LLC, specializing in research and teaching historic painting and sculpture techniques. Taught workshops for Washington University and Webster University on Vermeer’s painting techniques. Taught workshops for the docents, family programs, and course for adults on 17th century Italian painting techniques for the St. Louis Art Museum in connection with the exhibition, “Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi”. Presented a program for docents on historic painting techniques in November 2004. |
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2003: |
Lecturer, Washington University School of Art, teaching a survey of the theory and practice of historic European painting techniques 1400-1675. |
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2004: |
With Sarah Belchetz-Swenson, painter and printmaker, now Co-Director of Northern Light Studio, conducted three workshops for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, on Rembrandt’s drawing and painting techniques and materials, and one illustrated lecture on the same topic for the Chicago Art Institute, both in connection with the exhibition, “Rembrandt’s Journey” shown at both institutions. |
| AFFILIATIONS |
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1981-83: |
Board member (Treasurer), American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC); First Co-coordinator of the “Objects Group” AIC. |
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1992 (Summer): |
volunteer Chaplain, St. Louis Juvenile Detention Center |
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1996-present: |
Board of Trustees, American Friends of the Anglican Centre, Rome |
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2000-present: |
Committee on Religious and Spiritual Life, Wellesley College |
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2002-present: |
Board, St. Louis Classical Guitar Society |
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2003-present: |
Board, Kingsbury Ensemble (early music on period instruments) |
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2003-present: |
Member, Episcopal Church Network for Science, Technology and Faith |
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2004-present: |
Board of Directors, Opera Theatre of St. Louis |
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2005-2007: |
Board of Trustees, St. Louis Art Museum |
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Fellow, American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC) |
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Fellow, International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (IIC) |
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Member, International Council of Museums Conservation Committee (ICOM-CC) |
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Fellow, Society of St. John the Evangelist, Cambridge, MA |
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Officer, Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem |
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Member, St. Louis Forum |
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Member, College Art Association |
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Member, Historians of Netherlandish Art |
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Member, American Association of Museums |
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Member, Midwest College Art Association |
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2006-present: |
Board, The St. Michael School, St. Louis, MO |
| SELECTED PUBLIC LECTURES |
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1988: |
Kajima Foundation, Tokyo, Japan: Four lectures on history of bronze casting and patination, bronze sculpture deterioration and conservation, for curators of Japanese museums. |
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1986: |
Istituto Centrale del Restauro, Rome, Italy: Taught a five-day course on outdoor bronze sculpture conservation |
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1997: |
Brookgreen Gardens, SC: Keynote address for workshop in outdoor bronze sculpture conservation sponsored by the National Park Service: “The Problem of Determining Artist’s Intent in Sculpture Conservation”. |
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1998: |
Harvard University, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA: Lecture, “Saul has Killed his Thousands and David his Ten Thousands: Boselli and Bernini on the Challenge of Three Dimensions”, for the symposium, “Modeled in Mud: Baroque Clay Sculpture, its Progeny and Afterlife”. |
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1999: |
French Academy, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy: Lecture, “A Terra Cotta Female Bust by Gian Lorenzo Bernini”, for the symposium, “Bernini dai Borghese ai Barberini: La Cultura a Roma intorno agli Anni Venti” |
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2000: |
Ferrara Fiere Restauro 2000, Ferrara, Italy: Lecture, “Scultura all’aperto in America: racconti di ruggine, crisi di corrosione e rimedi vari per il restauro”, for the conference “Meteo e Metalli: I problemi di conservazione e di restauro delle sculture all’aperto”, organized by the Istituto Beni Culturali della Regione Emilia- Romagna. |
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2000: |
Four lectures on 17th c. Dutch art for the Harvard Alumni Association educational tour: “Waterways of Holland and Belgium, Amsterdam, Bruges” |
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2004: |
Workshops at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and a public lecture at the Chicago Art Institute on Rembrandt’s painting materials and techniques |
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2004: |
Instituut Collectie Nederland, Amsterdam: Poster presentation with Sarah Belchetz-Swenson: “Exploring Rembrandt’s Painting Materials and Techniques: Rembrandt and Burnt Plate Oil”, for the conference, Approaching the Art of the Past: Sources and Reconstructions organized by the Art Technological Sources Research Group (ATSR) |
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2004: |
Genoa, Italy: Lecture, “Patina from the Historical-Artistic Point of View”, for the conference, “ Conservazione dei monumenti in bronzo all’aperto: esperienze a confronto”, sponsored by the Ministero per I Beni e le Attività Culturali, and CNR-ISMAR of Genoa. |
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2005: |
Rome, Italy: Lecture, for International Center for Conservation, Rome (ICCROM)--Conservation Research Group Discussion Day on Cleaning 19 May 2005 |
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2005: |
Lecture on Caravaggio's painting materials and techniques in connection with the exhibition "Caravaggio: Una Mostra Impossibile", Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago, IL |
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2006: |
Three lectures at the III Symposium of Advanced Techniques for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage, Olinda, Brazil, organized by AERPA, with sponsorship by FINEP and UNESCO. Lectures presented were on the topics of Patina, and the materials and techniques of Caravaggio and Rembrandt. |
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2006: |
Lecture/Workshop with Sarah Belchetz-Swenson, "Rembrandt's Palette" at Smith College, Northampton, MA. |
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2006: |
Lecture on the materials and techniques of Rembrandt and Caravaggio, University of Lisbon |
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2006: |
Workshop on the materials and techniques of Rembrandt, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO |
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2007: |
Lecture, “Claude Lorrain and 17th Century Italian Studio Practice”, and, with Sarah Belchetz-Swenson, a Workshop/Demonstration on the Drawing Materials and Techniques of Claude Lorrain, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA |
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2007: |
Lecture “Brandi and the Concept of Patina” for a symposium on Cesare Brandi, Courtauld Institute, London, UK |
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2007: |
Conference Planning Committee for the conference “Art of the Matter: Doing Technical Art History”, Smith College, Northampton, MA |
