Additional
Information on James Swope, President and Chief Conservator of James Swope
Fine Arts Conservation, Inc. :
Professional
Organizations
Professional
Service
Articles
and Publications featuring James Swope as Author or Editor
Selected Lectures
Selected
Museum Surveys and Grants
Selected
Institutional (501(c)3) Clients
Continuing
Education
Professional
Organizations:
Professional
Service:aaaaaaa
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Palm Beach International Art and Antiques Fair, Vetting
Committee, 2003;
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Application Reviewer for the Getty
Grant Program, pertaining to scholarships for Latin American Conservators
to attend the 1999 and 2000 AIC
Conferences;
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American
Institute for Conservation:
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Conservators in Private Practice, Chair, Education
Committee, 1993;
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Conservators in Private Practice, Director, 1996 -
1998;
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Conservation Assessment Program Grant Reviewer:
1985, 1986
Articles
and Publications featuring James Swope as Author or Editor:
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"The Conservation of George Cooke's Massive Interior
of St. Peter's, Rome, published by the University of Georgia in the Georgia
Museum of Art's Bulletin, volume 20, 1999;
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"The Role of Technical Analysis in the Detection of
Fakes and Forgeries on Contemporary Paintings," published by Elite Fine
Art, Miami, FL, 1994;
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"Transition from an Institutional to a Private Conservation
Practice," Establishing a Private Conservation Practice, published by Conservators
in Private Practice, 1991;
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"Arsenic in Taxidermy Specimens," Collections Care
Information Service, published by the
National Institute for Conservation, 1990;
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Editor of Conservation News, published quarterly by
the Rocky Mountain Regional Conservation Center, distributed to over
500 non-profit institutions, 1985 - 1987;
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"The Materials and Techniques of Jacob von Ruisdael,"
Paula DeCristafaro, co-author, published by the Conference of Training
Programs, Queens University, 1982.
Selected
Lectures by James Swope:
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"Warhol's Shoe," Deland Museum of Art, Deland, FL,
September, 2002;
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"Not Gone with the Wind," Public Outreach Lecture for
the AIC, Wolfsonian Institution, June, 2002;
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"Beneath the Dirt: Connoisseurship from an Art
Conservator's Perspective,"
Lowe
Art Museum, Coral Gables, FL, March, 2001;
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"Triage of Water Damaged Collections, A Practice Drill,"
Disaster Preparedness Workshop, co-presenter with Sharon Bennett, archivist
at the Charlestown Museum, Charlestown, SC and John Maseman of the South
Florida Conservation Center, presented at the Florida
Association of Museums annual conference through the agency of the
South East Museum Conference, September 12, 2000;
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"Collecting, Connoisseurship, and Conservation," Boca
Raton Museum of Art Collectors Forum, Boca Raton Museum of Art, February
22, 1998;
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"Guardian Angels, the Role of the Conservator in Preserving
Works of Art," Norton Museum of Art Public Education Series, February
28, 1999;
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"Creative Use of Materials and Conservation Issues
in Public Art": Guest lecturer, Public Art and Design Intensive Training
Workshop for the Public Art Program of Broward County, FL, Jan. 1999;
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"Restorers 'Live' Internet Chat": Paintings and
Paper, Sponsored by the
Association of Restorers, with Helen Houp and Craig Deller, an interactive
"chat" with non-professional restorers, Oct., 1998;
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"An Ill Wind: How Peripheral issues Affected
Conservation Decisions in the Wake of Hurricane Andrew," American Institute
for Conservation Annual Conference, Washington, D. C., June, 1998;
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"Practical Care of Paintings Collections," with Patricia
Kamm, Florida Association of Museums, Miami, FL, 1996;
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"Proposals, Strategies, and Conservation of the wall
painting 'The Interior of St. Peter's Cathedral' by George Cooke," Georgia
Museum of Art, University of Georgia, 1996;
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"Common Sense Collections Care: Low and No Cost
Ways to Protect your Museum's Objects," with Elise LeCompte-Baer, Florida
Association of Museums, 1994;
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"Transition from an Institutional to a Private Conservation
Practice," Smithsonian Institution Training Program, 1999, 1995, and 1992;
also American Institute for Conservation, Conservators in Private
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Practice, Albuquerque, NM, June, 1991;
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"Estimating the Large Project: Proposal for Conserving
Fifty Interlocking paintings, 11' x 20' Each;" American Institute for Conservation,
Conservators in Private Practice, Denver, CO, June, 1993;
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"Paintings, Pasta, and Preservation," Symposium, Orlando
Museum of Art, 1992;
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"Long Distance Curatorial and Conservation Collaboration
in the Treatment of a Painting by Grant Wood" Midwest Regional Conservation
Guild, Lexington, KY, 1991;
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"Conservation Treatments from the Collection Funded
by the National Endowment for the Arts," Sheldon
Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE, 1985;
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"Conservation of a Fire Damaged Painting by Dwight
Eisenhower," Western
Association of Art Conservators, Riverside, CA, 1984.
Selected
Museum Surveys and Grants:
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Deland
Museum of Art, Deland, FL, Heritage Preservation, Conservation Assessment
Program, 2002;
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Maitland
Art Center, Maitland, FL, Heritage Preservation, Conservation Assessment
Program, 1998;
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International Game Fish Association, Pompano Beach,
FL: paintings collection survey, 1998;
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Pensacola
Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL, Heritage Preservation Conservation Assessment
Program, 1995;
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Cornell
Fine Arts Museum: National Endowment for the Arts grant for the
reorganization of the Museum's storage facilities and for a comprehensive
survey of its collection of paintings, 1995;
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Vero
Beach Center for the Arts: Conservation Assistance grant for
the comprehensive examination of the paintings collections, 1995;
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Norton Gallery of Art: Institute for Museum Services
Conservation Grant for the Conservation treatment of the primary paintings
in the Norton Museum's paintings collection, 1994 - 1995;
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Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park,
FL, Institute for Museum Services, Conservation Assessment Grant, 1993;
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Museum
of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL, Institute for Museum Services, Conservation
Assessment Grant, 1992;
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Vero Beach Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, FL, Institute
for Museum Services, Conservation Assessment Grant, 1992;
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Bass
Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL paintings collection survey, 1990;
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Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, Conservation
Project Support Grant (painting collection survey) , Institute for Museum
Services, 1989;
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Wolfsonian
Foundation, Miami Beach, FL, paintings collection survey, 1989.
Selected
Institutional (501(c)3) Clients:
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Ann
Norton Sculpture Gardens, West Palm Beach, FL
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The
Art League of Daytona Beach, Fl, Daytona, FL
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Bass
Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL
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Bethesda Home for Boys, Savanna, GA
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Boca
Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
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Bonnett
House, Fort Lauderdale, FL
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Carl Vinson Institute of Government, Athens, GA
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Center
for the Arts, Vero Beach, FL
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Cummer
Museum of Art, Jacksonville, FL
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Harn
Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL
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Henry
B. Plant Museum, Tampa, FL
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Henry
Morrison Flagler, Museum, Palm Beach, FL
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George
and Harriet Cornell Fine Arts Center, Rollins College, Winter Park,
FL
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Georgia
Museum of Art, Athens, GA
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Florida
Gulf Coast Art Center, Inc. Belleaire, FL
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International Game Fish Association, Pompano Beach,
FL
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Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, FL
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Morikami
Museum, Delray Beach, FL
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The
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
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Museum of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, FL
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Museum
of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL
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Orlando
Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
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Norton
Gallery and School of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
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Pensacola
Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL
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Polk
Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
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Society
for the Four Arts, Palm Beach, FL
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University
of Georgia, Athens, GA
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Wolfsonian Foundation, Miami Beach, FL
Continuing
Education:
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