Group D – Framing: Art and Furniture Restoration

Company Name: Julius Lowy Frame and Restoring Company

Style: Antique

Address: 223 East 80th Street, New York, NY 10075

Telephone: 212.861.8585

Email: registrar@lowyonline.com

Website: http://lowyonline.com/conservation/contact.php

Contact Person:

Products Information / model numbers: Moses by Unknown

Oil on Canvas, 52 3/4" x 54 3/4"

Special Remarks: Established in 1907, the fine art conservation department at Lowy has a long history of preserving historic and artistic works of art. The painting and paper conservation studios treat works of art from all periods from old masters to contemporary works.

Artist's regularly treated include French Impressionists such as Renoir, Monet and Degas; American Painters and Illustrators such as Sargent, Chase, Rockwell and Parrish; Nineteenth Century American Landscape painters including Church, Cole and Bierstadt; and Twentieth Century masters such as O'Keefe, De Kooning and Rothko.

The painting came to Lowy lined with glue onto linen, with multiple gouges, creases, and surface distortions. There was a thick layer of old, hard, discolored natural resin varnish and hard oil overpaint covering tears and losses, with heavy layers of surface and embedded dirt. To treat, we first faced the painting to protect the media layers, stripped the old glue lining, treated with humidity and re-lined with Beva onto a new linen canvas. We then cleaned off the dirt layers, discolored natural resin varnish and oil restoration, and inpainted using reversible materials.