The Eastern Analytical Symposium (EAS), Nov. 17-20, 2003
is an annual four-day international professional meeting on analytical chemistry (http://www.eas.org) and is held in Somerset, New Jersey, USA.The 10th (!) EAS Conservation Science Annual, November 17 and 18, 2003:
Monday, November 17, 2003
Morning Session
Application of X-ray Related Analytical Techniques in the Conservation of Cultural Materials
9:00-9:10 Introduction by session chair Matija Strlic, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
9:10-9:40 Manfred Schreiner, Institute of Sciences and Technologies in Art, Vienna, Austria: "The Use of X-ray Analysis in Conservation - an Overview"
9:40-10:20 E. Pantos, N. Salvadó, T. Pradell, J. Molera, M. Vendrell-Saz, L. Burgio, G. Martin, W.Kockelmann, Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, UK, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and Universitat de Barcelona, Spain, Victoria and Albert Museum and Christopher Ingold Laboratories, University College, London, UK, Mineralogical Institut, Bonn University at RAL-ISIS Facility, Chilton, UK, "Synchrotron Light and Neutrons in Cultural Heritage Science: Application to painting pigments"
10:20-10:45 Break
10:45-11:15 Mark T. Wypyski, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, "X-ray microanalysis for vitreous materials"
11:15-11:45 Jana Kolar, Milos Budnar, Matija Strlic, National and University Library, Institute Jozef Stefan and University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia, "Survey of historical documents containing iron gall ink"
Afternoon Session
Application of X-ray Related Analytical Techniques in the Conservation of Cultural Materials
2:00 - 2:10 Introduction by session chair Jana Kolar, National and University Library, Ljubljana,Slovenia
2:10 - 2:35 Rene Van Grieken, Ricardo Godoi, Velichka Kontozova, Zoya Spolnik, University of Antwerp, Belgium, "Electron probe X-ray microanalysis for characterising atmospheric particles in museums and cathedrals"
2:35 - 3:00 Marco Leona, Chris Deaton,Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, "A custom made open-architecture secondary-fluorescer XRF spectrometer for the analysis of works of art"
3:00 - 3:25 Alex von Bohlen, Institute of Spectrochemistry and Applied Spectroscopy, Dortmund, Germany, "Ultra-micro analysis in conservation science using total reflection X-ray fluorescence spectrometry"
3:25 - 3:55 Break
3:55 - 4:20 Howard Wellman, Jefferson Patterson Park & Museum, St. Leonard, Maryland, "X-radiography as an Assessment Tool for Bulk Archaeological Collections"
4:20 - 4:45 Andrea Chincarini, National Institute of Nuclear Physics, Genoa, Italy, "XPS studies of corrosion layers in ancient artefacts"
Tuesday, November 18, 2003
Morning Session
The Deterioration of Inorganic Artifacts
9:00-9:10 Introduction by session chair Gerhard Eggert, Academy of Art and Design, Stuttgart, Germany
9:10-9:40 Hannelore Roemich, Sandra Gerlach, Peter Mottner and Esmeralda López, Fraunhofer-Institute for Silicate Research, Bronnbach, Germany
9:40-10:10 Hubertus Ankersmit, Instituut Collectie Nederland, "Silver tarnishing - a quantitative approach"
10:10-10:40 John Scott, New York Conservation Center and Princeton University, "Rusting of sculptural steels"
10:40-11:00 Break
11:00-11:30 Gerhard Eggert, Academy of Art and Design, Stuttgart, Germany, "Crystals in the face - Magnesium compounds on ivory miniatures and objects"
11:30-12:00 Marion F. Mecklenburg, Charles S. Tumosa, Smithsonian Center for Materials Research and Education, "Resolving the conflict between building preservation and the proper temperature and relative humidity requirements of collections"
12:00-2:00 Lunch Break
Afternoon Session
Colorants, Pigments and Dyes
2:00-2:10 Introduction by session chair Jennifer Giaccai, Freer Gallery of Art/Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
2:10-2:40 Kate Duffy, Williamstown Art Conservation Center,Williamstown, NY "Pigments and Colorants Found in a Thracian Tomb"
2:40-3:10 Chris Cooksey, Watford, Herts, UK, "The Nineteenth Century Investigations of Edward Schunck into Natural Dyes"
3:10-3:30 Break
3:30-4:00 Joseph Swider, Freer Gallery of Art/Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, "Investigations on the Rheological and Physical Properties of Chinese Ink"
4:00-4:30 Cindy Connelly Ryan, Preservation Research and Testing Office, Library of Congress, "Iron Gall Ink Stabilization and Characterization"
4:30-5:00 Robert Withnall, School of Chemical and Life Sciences, University of Greenwich, "Applications of Raman Spectroscopy to Conservation Science"
For more on EAS’ entire Nov. 17-20, 2003 analytical chemistry technical program, for information on the EAS commercial exposition, and for instructions on registration and housing, please visit the EAS website, www.EAS.org , and contact the EAS office:
Infoline: 610-485-4633 Fax: 610-485-9467
Eastern Analytical Symposium
P.O. Box 633, Montchanin, DE 19710-0633
Organize/Chair a session and/or present a paper in your research area!
The EAS Conservation Science Annual usually comprises one day of invited papers surveying a unified area or topic, and a second day of more diverse invited papers. To propose future sessions or topics, please contact the EAS/NYCF CSA Coordinators at:
See below for recent years' EAS Conservation Science Annual topics:
November 2002: EAS/NYCF Conservation Science Annual:
*Applications of Solid Phase Microextraction and GC/MS in the
Conservation of Cultural Materials (chaired by Mark Ormsby, U S
National Archives, and Christopher Maines, National Gallery of Art,
Washington, DC):
-An Introduction to GC/MS and Solid Phase Microextraction
( H. McNair, Virginia Tech University)
-SPME Analysis of Plasticizers in Laminated Objects ( Mark
Ormsby, U S National Archives)
-Routine Measurements of Important Museum Air Corrosive
Contaminants: Using Purge-and-Trap Technology and SPME Fibres as Collecting Medium
(Jens Glasrup, The National Museum of Denmark)
-Analysis of Exhibition Materials (Christopher Maines,
National Gallery of Art)
-GC-MS in the elucidation of 18th and 19th century painters'
techniques (Narayan Khandekar, Fogg Art Museum)
-Naum Gabo's 'Construction in Space', 1927: materials investigation
(Ken Sutherland, Philadelphia Museum of Art)
-Anything within arm's reach? A technical examination of Jackson
Pollock's and Willem de Kooning's paintings from the 1940's through the
1950's (Susan Lake, Hirshhorn Museum)
-The chemistry of oil paint media and resin-oil varnishes;
analytical implications (Klaas Jan van den Berg, Instituut Collectie
Nederland)
-New possibilities for analytical pyrolysis as a suitable
diagnostic tool for analysis of works of art (Giuseppe Chiavari,
Università di Bologna)
*Science in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage: Young
Investigators, and: Diverse Methods (two sessions chaired by Janice
Carlson, Winterthur Museum):
-A Technical Study of Schimmel Eagles using integrated
methods (Danielle Snowflack, Muhlenberg College, with Janice
Carlson, Winterthur Museum and Marsha Baar, Muhlenberg College)
-Chinese Ink: Characterization of an East Asian Painting Material
using laser doppler microelectrophoresis and electron microscopy
(Joseph R. Swider, Freer Gallery of Art & Arthur M. Sackler Gallery)
-Analytical challenges for Conservation Research at the British
Museum, using Raman and integrated methods (Laurianne Robinet,
British Museum)
-Chromatographic and spectroscopic differentiation of insect dyes
on East Asian paintings (Jennifer Giaccai and John Winter,
Freer Gallery of Art & Arthur M. Sackler Gallery)
*Science in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage: Diverse Methods
-Peering into the Archimedes Palimpsest: Through the Past,
Murkily (William A. Christens-Barry, Johns Hopkins University)
-Chemiluminescence of cellulose: can light lead the way to improve
paper conservation? (Matija Strlic and Jana Kolar, University of
Ljubljana)
-Synchrotron X-Ray Studies of European and Islamic Astrolabes
(Brian Newbury and Michael Notis, Lehigh University)
-Materials Research at the Library of Congress (Cindy Connelly-Ryan
and Chandru Shahani, Library of Congress)
-Swelling of clay inclusions in stone (Inmaculada Jimenez Gonzalez
and George W. Scherer, Princeton University)
October 2001: EAS/NYCF Conservation Science
Annual:
*Science in the Conservation of Paper Media (chaired by Dianne
van der Reyden, Smithsonian Center for Materials Research and
Education, Washington, DC; Laura Stirton Aust, Artcare, Inc. and New
York Conservation Foundation):
-The Basis of Paper "Fiber" Identification - A Plant
Anatomist's Perspective (Harry Alden, Smithsonian Center for
Materials Research and Education, Washington, DC)
-Micro-analytical (stratigraphic) analysis of paper and other
sheet-like materials, including added decorations (Jan Wouters,
Laboratory for Materials and Techniques, Royal Institute for Cultural
Heritage, Brussels, Belgium)
-Multi-instrumental analysis of paper documents (Eugene
Hall, Chemistry Department, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ)
-Methods for analyzing the gelatin content of historical papers
(Mark Ormsby, National Archives and Records Administration,
Washington, DC)
-Monitoring Change in Works on Paper: Recent research at LACMA
(Terry Schaeffer, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA)
-A pre-packaged a-amylase poulticing system: Albertina-kompresse
(Ingrid Schwarz, Institution for Saarland Cultural Heritage,
Saarland Museum, Germany)
-Emission of volatile organic compounds from deacidified paper
(John Havermans, TNO Industrial Technology, Delft, The Netherlands)
-A new accelerated aging test for paper based on a comparison of
different accelerated aging methods with natural aging (Chandru
Shahani, Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
* Science in the conservation of Cultural Heritage (Chaired by
John Scott, New York Conservation Foundation, and Christopher W.
McGlinchey, Conservation Department, The Museum of Modern Art, New
York, NY)
-Using contemporary analytical techniques to characterize
natural fibres in historic artifacts (Paul Garside, Paul Wyeth ,
Department of Chemistry and the Textile Conservation Center, University
of Southampton, UK)
-Analytical Study of Laminated Materials from the National
Anthropological Archives Artwork Collection (Tara Kennedy, Claire
Grundy, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, DC)
-Effects of conservation cleaning of acrylic dispersion paint
films: preliminary investigations (Elizabeth Jablonski, James Hayes
and Mark Golden, Golden Artist Colors, Inc. , New Berlin, NY)
-A standard protocol for analysis of drying oils by GC/MS
(Geneviève Sansou, Analytical Research Laboratory, Canadian Conservation
Institute , Ottawa, Canada)
-Identification of paint compositions using complimentary spectral
techniques (Julie A. Tinklenberg, Gene S. Hall, Department of
Chemistry, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ)
-Sight and insight: imaging in conservation (Alison Murray,
Queen's University, Art Conservation Program, Kingston, Ontario)
-Image processing to determine the properties of historic textile
prototypes (Jeanette M. Cardamone, John G. Phillips, and William
C. Damer, US Dept. of Agriculture, ARS, Eastern Regional Research
Center, Wyndmoor, PA)
-Science for conservation at the Museum of Modern Art
(Christopher W. McGlinchey, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY)
-Surfaces of unpainted steel sculptures (John Scott, New
York Conservation Center, New York, NY)
October 2000: EAS/NYCF Conservation Science
Annual:
*Biodeterioration of Cultural Heritage: Microbes and Macrobes (chaired by Rakesh Kumar, of Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA. and Louis N. Sorkin, American Museum of Natural History, New York)
*Instrumental Analysis of Cultural Heritage (Judith Bischoff, National Park Service, Harpers Ferry Center)
*Developments in Laser Cleaning of Cultural Heritage Materials (Gregory Young and Carole Dignard, Canadian Conservation Institute).
November 1999: EAS/NYCF Conservation Science Annual:
*Outdoor Sculpture (chaired by Dr. Helena Strandberg of Goteborg, Sweden)
*Mass Spectroscopy (Dr. Beth Price of the Philadelphia Museum of Art)
*Young Investigators (Dr. Chandra Reedy of the University of Delaware)
November 1998 EAS/NYCF Conservation Science Annual:
*Analysis for Textile History and Conservation (two sessions, chaired by Denyse Montegue of Fashion institute of Technology, SUNY and Mary Ballard of The Smithsonian Institution)
*Instrumental Analysis for Art, Architecture and Archaeology (John Scott of N. Y. Conservation Center)
*Young Investigators (Shelley Sass of New York University)
For prior years' programs and background on the Conservation Science Annual, please visit: