Conserving Canvas

Conserving Canvas is sponsored by Artwork Archive (supported by various funders). Conserving Canvas is an international grant initiative focused on the conservation of paintings on canvas. It aims to ensure conservators are prepared to care for these works through training activities, information dissemination, and a symposium.

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The initiative’s initial projects support the study and conservation of works on canvas by Thomas Gainsborough, Anthony van Dyck, and François Boucher.

“Through extensive consultation with specialists in the conservation field including experts at the Getty, we heard that there is a growing skills gap between senior conservators who learned treatments of paintings on canvas decades ago and newer museum conservators who need to address pressing problems for paintings in their own collections,” said Deborah Marrow, director of the Getty Foundation.

“Conserving Canvas creates opportunities for international collaboration among conservation professionals, so that critical knowledge can be shared, discussed, and disseminated.

” The inaugural Conserving Canvas grantees include The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California; the National Gallery, London; the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Statens Historiska Museer, Sweden; Stichting Restauratie Atelier Limburg, the Netherlands; University of Glasgow, Scotland; and Yale University.

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