Pre-program treatments

Partial treatments as a painting conservation assistant with Elizabeth Sanchez at Painting Conservation, LLC in Asheville, North Carolina. 

Eve Garrison
1975
60 x 36 inches
Acrylic on masonite

Top: shows areas of loss filled in with BEVA gesso.
Bottom: loss compensation with Gamblin Conservation Colors in xylene.

Structural treatments

Left: restretching a lined canvas over an artist-made strainer.
Right: strip lining of a mylar-backed canvas before being restretched.

Varnish removal