{"id":553,"date":"2017-03-09T08:25:09","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T12:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pafaarchives.wordpress.com\/?p=553"},"modified":"2019-11-01T13:04:57","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T13:04:57","slug":"the-c-word-conserving-recent-acquisitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.pafaarchives.org\/blog\/behind-the-scenes\/the-c-word-conserving-recent-acquisitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Museum Techniques &#8211; Conserving Recent Acquisitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Contributed by: Liz McDermott, Conservation Technician<\/em><\/p>\n<p>PAFA recently acquired a large collection of prints by American painter and printmaker Ellen Lanyon (1926-2013). Along with the artwork, the collection included over 300 3-D objects. The objects are quite unique because they were actually the subjects of Lanyon&#8217;s prints.<\/p>\n<p>Before we can place the objects in long-term storage, there are a few activities that need to be done. All objects require cleaning, cataloging, and custom housing. Below are two examples of some the unique objects found in the collection.<\/p>\n<p>Can you find these objects in the many works by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pafa.org\/collection?field_collection_subject_tid=All&amp;field_collection_category_tid=All&amp;field_highlighted_collections_tid=All&amp;field_artist_last_name_value=lanyon&amp;page=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ellen Lanyon&nbsp;<\/a>in our permanent collection? Let us know!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pafa.org\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/medium\/public\/media-assets\/20170309_003.jpg?itok=_fpjU3D4\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pafa.org\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/medium\/public\/media-assets\/20170309_004.jpg?itok=vLRJ9RWu\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contributed by: Liz McDermott, Conservation Technician PAFA recently acquired a large collection of prints by American painter and printmaker Ellen Lanyon (1926-2013). Along with the artwork, the collection included over 300 3-D objects. The objects are quite unique because they were actually the subjects of Lanyon&#8217;s prints. Before we can place the objects in long-term [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-behind-the-scenes","category-collection","category-conservation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pafaarchives.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pafaarchives.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pafaarchives.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pafaarchives.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pafaarchives.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pafaarchives.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1084,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pafaarchives.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions\/1084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pafaarchives.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pafaarchives.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pafaarchives.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}