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Metal Objects Excavated from the Rose O’Neill Homestead: Researched and Conserved by Hannah Overton

September, 2020 by Sarah Teel

Rose O’Neill was a famous Illustrator, cartoonist, artist, writer, and suffragette who kept a home in Walnut Shade, Missouri, known as Bonniebrook. These objects were excavated from the Bonniebrook property after the house burned down in 1947 and were later donated to the Rose O’Neill Historical Society upon the establishment of the Bonniebrook Museum. They are all functional … [Read more...] about Metal Objects Excavated from the Rose O’Neill Homestead: Researched and Conserved by Hannah Overton

Filed Under: 2019 Fall, ART/MST 488: Basic Conservation of Art and Artifacts Tagged With: bonniebrook, conservation, cultivator blade, early 20th century, late 19th century, metal bowl, metalworks, midwest american culture, railroad spike, rose o'neill, shaker gate, wagon bench seat spring

Hand-Thrown Lid: Researched, Conserved, and Reconstructed by Sabrina Osment

September, 2020 by Sarah Teel

  This hand-thrown lid for a stoneware crockery vessel was excavated from Bonniebrook, the estate of American illustrator, cartoonist, artist, writer, and suffragette Rose O’Neill, who is best-known for her invention of the Kewpie doll character.  Several years after O’Neill’s death in 1944, her house at Bonniebrook burned to the ground, and curious local people … [Read more...] about Hand-Thrown Lid: Researched, Conserved, and Reconstructed by Sabrina Osment

Filed Under: 2019 Fall, ART/MST 488: Basic Conservation of Art and Artifacts Tagged With: american midwest culture, bonniebrook collection, ceramics, conservation, early 20th century, late 19th century, late 20th century, stoneware

African Kundung Xylophone: Researched, Conserved, and Repaired by Ashley McLaughlin

September, 2020 by Sarah Teel

    Xylophones are instruments that originated in West Africa by the mid-14th century, and their use subsequently spread to the central and eastern regions of Africa.  The kundung xylophone was introduced to the Berom people of Nigeria by the Bagirmi people of Chad in the 1930s. While many musical traditions vanished through British colonization and the … [Read more...] about African Kundung Xylophone: Researched, Conserved, and Repaired by Ashley McLaughlin

Filed Under: 2019 Fall, ART/MST 488: Basic Conservation of Art and Artifacts Tagged With: africa, berom culture, conservation, early 20th century, kundung xylophone, mid 20th century, nigeria, xylophone

Landscape Paintings by Howard Garrison: Researched, Conserved, and Restored by Hannah Robinson

August, 2020 by Sarah Teel

Howard Garrison was an early 20th-century businessman and colorful character native to Ozark, Missouri. Garrison is best-known in Ozark lore for being the proprietor of the Riverside Inn, a popular restaurant that served as a speakeasy and gambling den during the prohibition era—activities for which he served some jail time.  Garrison was also known, however, for being an … [Read more...] about Landscape Paintings by Howard Garrison: Researched, Conserved, and Restored by Hannah Robinson

Filed Under: 2017 Fall, ART/MST 488: Basic Conservation of Art and Artifacts Tagged With: american midwest, early 20th century, howard garrison, landscape painting, ozarks culture

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  • 2016 Fall, ART 385: Art of the Americas
  • 2016 Spring, ART 386: Art of Africa
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  • 2018 Spring, ART 386: Art of Africa
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