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Bronze Seminar Exercises: Click on any photo to see it in greater detail

FIELD EXERCISES : 1ST WEEK
 
St. Marks Church in the Bouwerie
Manhattan, New York City
 
   Seminar participants clean Stuyvesant sculpture

Seminar participants adjust color on Stuyvesant sculpture

   
  Participants clean Stuyvesant sculpture in its first conservation treatment First-year participants adjust patina color on Stuyvesant sculpture  
         
  A participant surveys Stuyvesant sculpture Group surveys Stuyvesant sculpture    
         
  John Scott demonstrates a cleaning procedure A participant practices heated surface waxing    
   Seminar participants cleaning Tompkins sculpture    
  Participants clean Tompkins sculpture Particpants apply wax to Tompkins sculpture    
 

 

FIELD EXERCISES : 2ND WEEK

   
   Queens, New York City      
   Seminar participants erecting scaffold  Seminar participants work from scaffold in Queens Seminar participant removing wax from sculpture in Queens  
  Participants erect scaffold around Soldiers and Sailors Monument Participants work from scaffold Participant removes weathered, soiled wax  
  Princeton University, Princeton, NJ      
  Seminar participants survey sculpture at Princeton      
  Participants surveying Butler's sculpture, The Bride Participant waxing Thermopylae sculpture by Hadzi    
         
  Participant blasting weathered patina of Forrestal portrait with pressurized water John Scott demonstrates patination with Forrestal. Participant adjusting patina color on Dean West bronze with pigmented lacquer  


Photos by John Scott, NYCF, Joanna Barr, Artlab Australia, or Caren Dissinger