Rebecca: If you have not given up completely on having this work treated, I would recommend you get in touch with Constanza Bachman at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum. SHe is one of the top conservators in New York for Works on Paper. At 03:40 AM 4/30/96 -0700, you wrote: >I do not now which conservator was queried about this matter, but stains >from margarine/butter are treatable. > >An individual conservator may choose not to treat a particular artifact, >based upon an examination of the artifact, but that is not the same thing >as saying that an artifact cannot be treated. > >I regularly receive requests to conserve artifacts which I am not >competent to treat. When that happens, I refer the inquirer to a >conservator in whom I have confidence with respect to the artifact in >question. > >Jack C. Thompson >Thompson Conservation Lab >Portland, OR > >[log in to unmask] > > >On Sat, 27 Apr 1996, Rebecca Andrews wrote: > >> I wanted to share this information with the list about a conservation >> issue with a work of art on paper. I DID call a conservator first! A >> recent donation of a silkscreen print came into the museum with 2 blobs of >> 'I Can't Believe It's Not Butter' (tub) on the image, much to the chagrin >> of the donor. They had very carefully wrapped the print on the kitchen >> table before coming to the museum. I called a local paper conservator, >> who said that this is most likely not treatable (grease on paper). >> Because the paper is a very thick rag, the grease of the butter (NOT) >> would probably require water in addition to solvents to treat. >> Unfortunately, these types of inks are water soluable... >> >> So we will live with the stains, and isolate the print from >> others in the collection. >> >> >> Rebecca Andrews >> Collections Manager, Ethnology >> Burke Museum >> University of Washington >> > > Paul H. Pincus Bilbao Project Associate Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Guggenheim Museum Bilbao 1071 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10128-0173 P (212) 423-3549 F (212) 534-8938 or (212) 876-2368 e-mail: [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] internet: http://www.panix.com/~pincus/pincus.html