07/15/2026
Very cool painting conservation reveal in Albert Bierstadt's "Mount Whitney" at the Rockwell Museum in Corning, New York. Back in 2013, we were honored to make the 1870s gilded replica frame for this marvelous Bierstadt. The painting was so large the new frame had to be hoisted to the third floor of the museum and brought in through a window. Albert Bierstadt,“'Mount Whitney', c.1877, oil on canvas, 68-7/8 x 116-5/8 inches; Rockwell Museum of Western Art. Reframed by Gill & Lagodich in a custom-made replica c.1870s American frame; gilded applied ornament over wood with incised star-and-fret pattern frieze; molding width 11-1/4 inches. The frame weighed 450 pounds. It took nine people and a crane to lift the massive frame three stories into the museum. Curator of Collections, James Peck says, "Over 200 square feet of gold leaf and over a football field worth of ornament and wood [if] laid end to end. And so, it's been a year long process." Donations from the community helped to pay for the frame." click link in comments to see details of this frame (and the dramatic hoist up to the roof!)
MARSDEN HARTLEY'S MAINE At The Met Breuer MARCH 15– JUNE 18, 2017. Gill & Lagodich framed five Hartley paintings on view in this terrific exhibition. Two for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, one for a private collector, one for Colby College Museum of Art, and one on loan to Museum of Modern Art fo...
