Marigene H. Butler Papers, 1872-ca.2000, ca.1966-ca.2000 (bulk dates).

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Marigene H. Butler Papers, 1872-ca.2000, ca.1966-ca.2000 (bulk dates).

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The files span the conservation career of Marigene Butler. Included is information about her work at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Intermuseum Conservation Association, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Her participation in professional organizations is documented, as well. The collection contains some treatment and examination reports; copies of papers which she wrote; lectures given by her about conservation; documentation of her participation in conservation training programs; her interests in the use of microscopes, pigments, and architectural conservation; some publications about microscopes (including early copies of The Lens); and notes from classes and meetings she attended. The single largest group of papers relates to the Intermuseum Conservation Association, its work, its training program, and the building of its new laboratory in Oberlin. The files include some photographs.

28 boxes (9 cu.ft.) : ill.

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Philadelphia Museum of Art

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In 1921, the Pennsylvania Museum of Art (later renamed the Philadelphia Museum of Art) held a special loan exhibition of colonial silver, mostly American pieces, with some European ones. A catalog of the exhibit was published as Bulletin number 68 in June 1921. There are no clues as to who assembled this special volume. From the description of Bulletin - Philadelphia Museum of Art. (Winterthur Library). WorldCat record id: 261233369 Art museum; Philadelphia, Pen...

Intermuseum Conservation Association

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Postal Microscopical Society

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State Microscopical Society of Illinois.

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Art Institute of Chicago.

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Butler, Marigene H.

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Marigene Butler was an art conservator, with a specialty in paintings conservation. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1953. She trained in the conservation department of the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University under Elizabeth H. Jones, and later, she did further paintings conservation training under Alfred Jakstas at the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC). While at the AIC, she acquired an interest in the use of polarized light microscopy and developed techniques for using it to study pa...