Label
2023, "Endangered Art Conserved"
Claude Buck was an American artist known for his works that draw from classical mythology, religious stories, and the literature of writers like Edgar Allen Poe. A year before painting The Toilers, Buck founded the Introspectives, a movement of artists who created poetic, dream-like imagery.
Conservators cleaned The Toilers and then inpainted areas of minor paint loss. They applied a barrier coat of resin and followed it with varnish. Next, they removed gold overpaint residue from the frame and filled in minor losses with calcium carbonate. They finished by applying a gilt varnish and polishing the frame with gilt cream.Label
2024, “Endangered Art: Reclaiming a Legacy”
Claude Buck was an American artist known for his works that draw from classical mythology, religious stories, and the literature of writers like Edgar Allen Poe. A year before painting The Toilers, Buck founded the Introspectives, a collective of artists who created poetic, dream-like imagery.
Conservators cleaned The Toilers and then in-painted areas of minor paint loss. They applied a barrier coat of resin and followed it with varnish. Next, they removed gold overpaint residue from the frame and filled in minor losses with calcium carbonate. They finished by applying a gilt varnish and polishing the frame with gilt cream.