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Re: exhibiting and preserving plasters
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Barbara O'Brien <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 10 Feb 2003 09:30:03 -0500
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Please send replies to list.  I have several Carl Christian Mose (Stan
Musial Statue in St. Louis and The Eagle at the Air Force Academy in
Colorado Springs) plasters - most in good condition but I am not sure how I
should be caring for them.



At 02:54 PM 02/07/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Our art museum took into its collection in the fifties and sixties several
>plasters from a sculptor who never had these cast presumably for lack of
>funds.  They are figurative images and very well done but the plasters are
>not attractive as they are extremely soiled and not showable.  These
>plasters are rather large and taking up a lot of the valuable space in our
>art vault. Have any art museums that you know of taken this sort of thing
>into thier collections as anything other than interesting material to tell
>the story of how the finished work was done?  Any recommendations from
>curators or collection managers particulary would be so helpful.  Many
>thanks and feel free to write to me off-list at
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McDaniel College
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