Two figures standing in front of an easel, looking at silk painting colors for potential matches to mounting silks used in conservation.
Dr. Yuhua Ding, Kemper Assistant Curator of Collections and Academic Affairs, and paintings conservator Jing Gao review the colors of potential mounting silks for the painting Immortal Magu with Wine Vessels by an unknown artist from the Zhe School, after Zhang Lu (ca. 1490– 1563), late 16th century, Hanging scroll; Ink on silk, Gift of Lois Levin (Class of 1942) 1983.3. Photo courtesy of the Davis Museum at Wellesley College.

Immortalizing Magu:

The Conservation of a Chinese Painting

Time 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Where Collins Cinema;
Collins Cafe Dining
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Join Dr. Yuhua Ding, Kemper Assistant Curator of Collections and Academic Affairs, for a conversation with Jing Gao, world-renowned conservator of Asian paintings, Deborah La Camera, Partner and Senior Conservator at Studio TKM Associates, and Berit Raines ‘27. They will share their firsthand insights from the year-long conservation project that preserved a sixteenth-century Chinese painting for generations to come.

This program is supported by Kathryn Wasserman Davis ‘28 Fund for World Cultures and Leadership and Wellesley College Friends of Art at the Davis. The conservation work for this exhibition was supported by funds from the Mayling Soong Foundation and Barbara E. Sweeny ‘26 Art Conservation Fund.

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