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November, 2001
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Welcome to the second issue of the Canning Chronicles, the new monthly e-newsletter written by the professionals at John Canning Painting & Conservation Studios. Please forward this to your colleagues, and send us your comments, nominations for our Thistle Awards, and items for our Fun Facts from the Field. We welcome your feedback and participation. Click Here.
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Under Cover  Gold deposits in the Cash Room at the US Treasury
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 Cash Room Cieling Detail
U.S. Treasury Building, Washington D.C. |
This month, John Canning Painting and Conservation Studios wraps up its most recent gilding assignment with the completion of the cash room ceiling (how appropriate) in the US Treasury Building.
The project, originally scheduled to take nine weeks was completed in five by Canning Studios' expert gilding staff.
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Topical Conservation Gilding - step by step |
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 Statue of Prometheus - by Paul Manship
1934, Rockefeller Center, NYC. |
Getting beautiful results using this historic and dramatic decorative technique is a matter of understanding the properties of the materials used, and following a series of simple steps. Here's how…
1) Prepare the surface to create a smooth substrate. The surface can be plaster, wood, metal, etc. but it must be smooth and dust and residue free for best results.
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Thistle Award UPenn's Frank G. Matero |
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 John Canning Riccio gilds one of the horses in the Proscenium's corner frieze at the War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco |
The Canning Chronicles is pleased to honor Frank Matero with the first Thistle Award for his lifelong dedication to developing graduate education programs in historic preservation. Twenty years ago, when historic preservation was in its infancy in this country, Professor Matero served on the faculty of the graduate program of Historic Preservation at Columbia University's Institute of Fine Arts (1981-1990). During this time he also served as Director of the school's Center for Preservation Research. His was one of the first programs of its kind in the U.S. and served as the training ground for some of today's most accomplished conservators.
In 1990, Matero joined the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation at the University of Pennsylvania where he is now Chairman and Associate Professor of Architecture. It is the mission of UPenn's graduate program to prepare graduates for professional careers in, "The identification and analysis of cultural places and their historic fabric, the determination of significance and value, and appropriate degrees of intervention, and the implementation of prescribed conservation and management. These areas all require special preparation in history, documentation, planning, design and technology."
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Fun Facts from the Field All that glitters… |
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We often say that John Canning Studios has been responsible for the country's largest gilding projects over the past few years. We've finally found a way to convey just how large. Metal leaf comes in sheets roughly 5 inches square. It can come in single sheets or mounted edge to edge on a roll. Now we can put these jobs into perspective:
 San Francisco City Hall: 144,000 sheets of gold leaf
Radio City Music Hall: 810,000 sheets of Dutch metal leaf
War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco: 1.5 million sheets of gold leaf
And it's all applied by hand!
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