Getty Grant Program Award Funds Conservation Survey In 1999, the Getty Grant Program provided funding for a conservation assessment of the Museum's, paintings, drawings and gilt frames. The project has involved the documentation and examination of 1,180 works on paper, nearly 200 paintings, and 60 gilt frames with the preparation of written reports with images linked to the object's record in the Museum's database, EmbARK. Funding also supported an independent paper conservator, paintings conservator, and a gilt-frame conservator. The project conservation technician, Suzanne Burton Sroka, prepared new housings to protect the works of art. Older acidic mats and acidic backboards and papers were removed and individual items matted and boxed or foldered and boxed in archival-quality materials. Susan Haskell, ethnographic collections manager, and T.Rose Holdcraft, conservator, served as project supervisors. This preservation effort is phase one of a multi-phased preservation initiative to collect necessary data to determine the optimal storage systems and to develop a long-range conservation treatment plan for these important visual collections.
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