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Detecting forgeries of Aubrey Beardsley’s influential artworks

July 22, 2019 By Tracy Bonfitto

ink drawing by Aubrey Beardsley

“Pray forgive my frankness when I say that two of them are not only not by A.B. [Aubrey Beardsley], but are not in the least like him! It is astonishing to me how many people are taken in. Is it not perhaps because they buy a name and not a work of art? I hope that is your excuse. But you are in good company.”
— R. A. Walker (1944)

[Read more…] about Detecting forgeries of Aubrey Beardsley’s influential artworks

Filed Under: Art, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1, Featured6 Tagged With: Art, Aubrey Beardsley, Exhibitions, Forgeries

Meet the Staff: An interview with new Curator of Art Tracy Bonfitto

October 18, 2017 By Leigh Hilford

Tracy Bonfitto has joined the Ransom Center as the new curator of art. She has worked at the Getty Research Institute, the Fowler Museum at UCLA, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She was previously a lecturer in the Art History Department at UCLA. [Read more…] about Meet the Staff: An interview with new Curator of Art Tracy Bonfitto

Filed Under: Art, Meet the Staff, News Tagged With: Art, art curator, Art History, Curator, curator of art, Fowler, India, Jack Kerouac, news, Sanskrit, South Asia, staff, staff profile, Tracy Bonfitto, UCLA, visual materials

New Curator of Art appointed

October 18, 2017 By Suzanne Krause

The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin has appointed a new curator of art who will focus on improving the Ransom Center’s ability to support students, scholars and the public through the interpretation of its rich art holdings. [Read more…] about New Curator of Art appointed

Filed Under: Art, News Tagged With: Art, art curator, artist, artists' books, Curator, curator of art, Eric Gill, Getty Research Institute, prints and drawings, release, South Asian, Tracy Bonfitto, UCLA

Conservation treatment gives new life to St. Jerome in His Study

February 5, 2017 By Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa

In addition to two portraits by the artist Mary Beale, the Ransom Center’s old master painting St. Jerome in His Study will be exhibited in the newly renovated galleries of the University’s Blanton Museum of Art from February 2017 to February 2019. [Read more…] about Conservation treatment gives new life to St. Jerome in His Study

Filed Under: Art, Conservation Tagged With: Art, Blanton Museum of Art, Conservation, Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa, Marinus van Reymerswaele, Mark van Gelder, painting, St. Jerome, St. Jerome in His Study

Ransom Center conservator treats preliminary layouts for Ed Ruscha’s Hard Light

December 21, 2016 By Susana Hoyos Velasco

The author reducing the orange adhesive stains with solvents using the suction table.

The Edward Ruscha Papers and Art Collection at the Harry Ransom Center includes preliminary layout sheets for Hard Light, a collaborative artist’s book published by Ruscha and Lawrence Weiner in 1978. [Read more…] about Ransom Center conservator treats preliminary layouts for Ed Ruscha’s Hard Light

Filed Under: Art, Books + Manuscripts, Conservation, Photography Tagged With: adhesive, Art, artist, Books, Conservation, Ed Ruscha, Hard Light, intern, Lawrence Weiner, photographs, preservation, treatment

Meet the Staff: Rob Hay, Head of Exhibition Services

November 28, 2016 By Marissa Kessenich

Rob during installation of the spring 2016 exhibition Look Inside: New Photography Acquistions.

Meet the Staff is a Q&A series on Cultural Compass that highlights the work, experience, and lives of staff at the Harry Ransom Center.

Rob Hay has been at the Harry Ransom Center for two and a half years. He worked as a preparator before taking on his current position as head of exhibition services. [Read more…] about Meet the Staff: Rob Hay, Head of Exhibition Services

Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Meet the Staff Tagged With: Art, artist, Conservation, Exhibitions, gallery, Loans, Meet the Staff, New York City, painting, Rob Hay, Taglialatella Galleries

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