KCI Conservation

07/30/2025

Nathan Hale, 1907
William Ordway Partridge
cast and patinated bronze

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10/20/2024

KCI recently dry cleaned a triptych of sand paintings by Navajo artist, David Chethlahe Paladin. In preparation, we used a Dino-Lite USB microscope to examine the delicate surfaces and we captured some interesting photomicrographs.

1- 10x photomicrograph of artist’s signature lettering
2- Microscopic examination of artist’s signature
3- 10x image of the edge of one of the panels showing how the artist layered the different colors of sand over the ground layer on Masonite panel
4- Detail photograph of the area showing the image created with the layering in image 3
5- 40x photomicrograph of surface of sand, enlarged
6- 40x photomicrograph of surface of sand

08/25/2024

The things we do for art!

08/22/2024

We were happy to give this tribute to Suni Lee the attention it deserves. Our community is extremely proud of our local heroine who won 3 Olympic medals in Women’s Gymnastics in Paris this year. She also won 3 medals at the Tokyo Olympics, including the All Around gold medal.

Portrait of Sunisa Lee, 2023, Seexeng Lee

Thank you to our Technician, for the photo.

08/13/2024

It’s always nice to work with a view. Even better when you get to treat a Flanagan HARE.

08/05/2024