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May 2008 Funding from the Henry Luce Foundation‘s American Art Program Art Conservation Initiative has made possible a large number of art conservation treatments for several McKay Lodge, Inc. museum clients. This program was a special one year initiative and the foundation’s program received approximately 100 applications for funds exceeding 6 million dollars. Many of our clients were excited by this new opportunity for aid offered in part as a response to the dramatic findings of the Heritage Health Index of Heritage Preservation. The foundation awarded 48 grants and funds totaling over $1,750,000 for conservation of works by American artists. BUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART The Butler Institute of American Art received a Luce Foundation grant of $15,000 which the museum applied toward the larger cost of much needed conservation of five of the most significant American paintings from the institute’s original collection. Additional funding supporting current art conservation work and work of the past two years at McKay Lodge Conservation Laboratory has come in part from the institute’s ongoing Adopt-a Painting-Program. Art Conservation funding from the Luce Foundation supported the work on: Charles Howard Davis, Call of the Westwind. John Francis Murphy, An Old Farm, 1918. Chauncey Foster Ryder, Path Down the Mountain, 1912. Henry Ward Ranger, Long Pond, 1907. Robert Hogg Nisbet, Emerald Robe, 1914. ALBRIGHT-KNOX ART GALLERY Following a condition survey of some of the most significant works by modern American masters in the collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery conducted by McKay Lodge Art Conservation Laboratory in 2006, the Henry Luce Foundation has provided $35,000 in funding to the museum to help carry-out the recommended conservation work. McKay Lodge conservators Robert Lodge and Stefan Dedecek will commence the work with selections for on-site treatments beginning in September. Several of the collection’s masterpieces of modern art will be treated for a future travelling exhibition.

May 2008

Funding from the Henry Luce Foundation‘s American Art Program Art Conservation Initiative has made possible a large number of art conservation treatments for several McKay Lodge, Inc. museum clients. This program was a special one year initiative and the foundation’s program received approximately 100 applications for funds exceeding 6 million dollars.

Many of our clients were excited by this new opportunity for aid offered in part as a response to the dramatic findings of the Heritage Health Index of Heritage Preservation. The foundation awarded 48 grants and funds totaling over $1,750,000 for conservation of works by American artists.

BUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART

The Butler Institute of American Art received a Luce Foundation grant of $15,000 which the museum applied toward the larger cost of much needed conservation of five of the most significant American paintings from the institute’s original collection. Additional funding supporting current art conservation work and work of the past two years at McKay Lodge Conservation Laboratory has come in part from the institute’s ongoing Adopt-a Painting-Program.

Art Conservation funding from the Luce Foundation supported the work on:

Charles Howard Davis, Call of the Westwind.

John Francis Murphy, An Old Farm, 1918.

Chauncey Foster Ryder, Path Down the Mountain, 1912.

Henry Ward Ranger, Long Pond, 1907.

Robert Hogg Nisbet, Emerald Robe, 1914.

ALBRIGHT-KNOX ART GALLERY

Following a condition survey of some of the most significant works by modern American masters in the collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery conducted by McKay Lodge Art Conservation Laboratory in 2006, the Henry Luce Foundation has provided $35,000 in funding to the museum to help carry-out the recommended conservation work. McKay Lodge conservators Robert Lodge and Stefan Dedecek will commence the work with selections for on-site treatments beginning in September. Several of the collection’s masterpieces of modern art will be treated for a future travelling exhibition.