Category Archives: Historic Buildings – Construction Sites

After Mural Restoration in California The Horse Breakers by Fletcher Martin is again in Lamesa, TX!

By Wilson Jackson, Guest Blogger A valuable Depression Era oil-on-canvas-glued-to-a-wall mural called “The Horse Breakers” by renown artist Fletcher Martin, painted way back in 1939, is back in it’s original community of Lamesa, TX after it was removed from a … Continue reading

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Mural Restoration Expert Consultation

FACL travels nationally to discuss and undertake mural conservation projects. Here’s a testimonial from a small project in Western Texas For our mural capability statement: https://www.fineartconservationlab.com/mural/ For our mural consultation statement: https://www.fineartconservationlab.com/consultations/ Our mural conservation videos on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE1FF71CC598A8E79 … Continue reading

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Professional Art Restoration Painting Conservation Door to Door Service

“Consultation at home or office at no charge?!?!” “You pick up and deliver?” We get around… Our circulation through the areas listed below is done so often and effortlessly by our office that we consider these “our backyard:” Santa Monica … Continue reading

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Cowboy Rodeo WPA Mural To Be Removed_Art Conservation Consultation and Painting Restoration in Texas

While I enjoy the high profile jobs with important or even famous artwork I LOVE to work with small communities to save their public art. This art is often very important to the locals… maybe the only historical art in the community. … Continue reading

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Authentic WPA Mural of “Old West” Art Conservation Consultation and Project Planning

Click to see short video In South Central Utah among the red earth table top landscape filled with dinosaur bones, there is an old coal mining town with a surprisingly good quality WPA mural. The panorama historical WPA mural is … Continue reading

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Mural Conservation Consultant – Travel with me to see hidden and secret places!!

Have you ever thought about how art conservation and especially painting restoration of old works of art help us to look back in history? Think about how much info we get about old architecture long lost, old and ancient clothes … Continue reading

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Historic Murals Removed, Restored, Reinstalled – Minerva Teichert

The first mural ever that I did art conservation treatments on was in my graduate program in Italy. The first week of school I was put onto scaffolding and sat down in front of a mural dated 1365 on a … Continue reading

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Preserving California History: Art Restoration of Historic Paintings of the Missions of CA

If you are close to Santa Barbara this Thurs evening (May 22) a truly unique and special evening is planned at the very exclusive Santa Barbara Mission Archives and Library that will highlight important historical art of the Missions of … Continue reading

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Mural Cleaning in Historic Building Construction – Project Changes – Being nimble, versatile, flexible… and “on it”!

We thought we were on a superficial mural cleaning and varnishing project! But its a bit more adventurous than that. In the jungle of scaffolding and working among an army of 1,500 demolition and construction workers and equipment we realize … Continue reading

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