The
The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and
Printed Ephemera
Henry Francis du Pont
5105 Kennett Pike,
302-888-4600 or 800-448-3883
OVERVIEW OF
THE COLLECTION
Creator:
Title: Marigene H. Butler Papers
Dates: 1872-ca.2000, bulk dates: ca.1966-ca.2000
Call No.:
Acc. No.: 05x60
Quantity: 21 boxes (7 cu. ft.)
Location: 502 C 1-2, D 3-4
BIOGRAPHICAL
STATEMENT
Marigene Butler was an art conservator, with a specialty
in paintings conservation. She was born
on
In 1973, Mrs. Butler became director of the
conservation laboratory of the Intermuseum Conservation Association, based in
Marigene Butler was active in several professional
organizations, including the International Institute for Conservation of Historic
and Artistic Works (IIC), the National Institute for Conservation (NIC), the
American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC), the Royal Microscopical Society, the State
Microscopical Society of Illinois, the Quekett Microscopical Society, and the
Postal Microscopical Society. She wrote
a number of papers about the conservation work she performed.
Marigene Butler was married to Daniel K. Butler, a
nuclear physicist. They had three children. She was a member of the League of Women
Voters and was interested in various social issues.
SCOPE AND
CONTENT
The files span the conservation career of Marigene
Butler. Included is information about
her work at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Intermuseum Conservation
Association, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Her participation in professional
organizations is documented, as well.
The collection contains some treatment and examination reports; copies
of papers which she wrote; lectures given by her about conservation;
documentation of her participation in conservation training programs; her
interests in the use of microscopes, pigments, and architectural conservation;
some publications about microscopes (including early copies of The Lens); and notes from classes she
attended. A fairly large group of papers
relates to the Intermuseum Conservation Association, especially its training
program. The files include some
photographs.
ORGANIZATION
The files are in alphabetical
order
LANGUAGE OF
MATERIALS
The materials are in English.
RESTRICTIONS
ON ACCESS
Collection is open to the public. Copyright restrictions may apply.
PROVENANCE
Gift of Marigene H. Butler.
ACCESS POINTS
Topics:
Art
Intermuseum Conservation
Association.
Postal
Microscopical Society.
State
Microscopical Society of
Art
– Conservation and restoration.
Painting
– Conservation and restoration.
Museum
conservation methods.
Microscopy.
Microscopy
– Periodicals.
Art
restorers.
DETAILED
DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION
Location: 502 C 1-2, D 3-4
Folder 1: Adam,
Robert - room at Philadelphia Museum of Art
Folders 2-3: Architectural
conservation
Folder 4: Architectural
conservation: Monticello
Folders 5-6: Architectural
conservation: various papers and reports
Folder 7: Architectural
conservation wallpaper at The Hermitage, Tennessee
Folder 8: Art
Institute of Chicago: symposium on Rembrandt
Folder 9: Article
reviews
Folder 10: Artists’
techniques
Folder 11: Belmont
Mansion (Philadelphia)
Box 2:
Folder 1: Bibliographies
Folder 2: Bibliographies
from training courses
Folder 3: Bibliography
for conservation assessment
Folder 4: Bibliography
for paper conservators
Folder 5: Bibliography:
NIC reference shelflist
Folders 6-7:
Folder 8:
Folder 9:
Folder 10: Butler, Marigene: “Polarized Light
Microscopy in the Conservation of Paintings” – mailing of preprints and replies
Box 3:
Folder 1: Campin,
Robert - technical
Folder 2: Cleaning
techniques
Folder 3: Collections
care
Folders 4-6: Conservation
articles
Folder 7: Conservation
examination forms
Folder 8: Conservation
notes
Folder 9: Conservation
notes; gallery inspection and dusting notes, 1967
Folder 10: Conservation
notes; notes about work done, 1967-1968
Box 4:
Folder 1: Conservation
techniques
Folder 2: Conservation
treatment notes, 1968
Folder 3: Consolidation
of matte surfaces – D. Thomas
Folders 4-5: Correspondence,
1968-1990s
Folder 6: Cross-sections
of paintings listing, 1972 – Rome
Folders 7-8: Crystallography
course notes, June 1970
Box 5:
Folder 1: Dayton
Art Institute
Folder 2: Degas
exhibit – Paris and Ottawa, 1988
Folder 3: Delly,
John
Folder 4: Dendrochronology
Folder 5: Dendrochronology
– P. Klein, ca. 1983-1990
Folder 6: Disaster
plan
Folder 7: Duchamp
exhibit – Japan, 1981 [also includes a trip to India]
Folder 8: Electron
microprobe and sample mounting
Folder 9: Electron
microprobe – analysis - ICA
Folder 10: Examination
report: Cezanne, “Bay of L’Estaque”
Folder 11: Examination
report: Cezanne, “View of the Bay of Marseilles”
Folder 12: Examination
report: Courbet, “Une Dame Espagnole”
Folder 13: Examination
report: Dali, “Soft Construction with Boiled Beans”
Folder 14: Examination
report: Degas, “The Ballet Class”
Box 6:
Folder 1: Examination
report: Picasso, “Man with Violin”
Folder 2: Examination
report: Pissarro, “River, Early Morning”
Folder 3: Examination
report: Vernet, “Royal Family at Naples”
Folder 4: Examination
techniques
Folder 5: German
vocabulary - Delly
Folder 6: Glass:
Corning seminars
Folder 7: Glossaries
Folder 8: Hals,
Frans - microscopy
Folder 9: Hals,
Frans – paper by Butler in Museum Studies,
vol. 5
Folder 10: Hals,
Frans – paper by Butler in Maltechnik 2
Restauro
Folder 11: Horns,
James – thesis on wood in panel paintings
Folder 12: House
paint - restoration
Box 7:
Folder 1: Infra-red
reflectography
Folder 2: Infra-red
reflectography – Louvain meeting, 1987-1991
Folder 3: Infra-red
reflectography – van Asperen de Boer paper
Folder 4: Intermuseum
Conservation Association (ICA)
Folder 5: Intermuseum
Conservation Association (ICA), 1969-1973
Folder 6: Intermuseum
Conservation Association (ICA): conservation seminars, 1978
Folder 7: Intermuseum
Conservation Association (ICA): correspondence: Pomerantz, Louis
Folder 8: Intermuseum
Conservation Association (ICA): history
Folder 9: Intermuseum Conservation Association
(ICA): information for Mellon Foundation and NEA
Box 8:
Folder 1: Intermuseum Conservation Association
(ICA): microscopes from Morgan Instruments
Folder 2: Intermuseum
Conservation Association (ICA): personnel
Folder 3: Intermuseum
Conservation Association (ICA): reading course, 1976
Folder 4: Intermuseum Conservation Association
(ICA): seminar notes, training program, 1973-1974
Folder 5: Intermuseum Conservation Association
(ICA): teaching aids and lecture outlines, 1971-1972
Folders 6-7: Intermuseum
Conservation Association (ICA): training program, 1975-1976
Folder 8: Intermuseum
Conservation Association (ICA): training program, 1976-1977
Folder 9: Intermuseum
Conservation Association (ICA): training program, 1977-1978
Folder 10: Intermuseum
Conservation Association (ICA): training program: curriculum
Box 9:
Folder 1: Intermuseum
Conservation Association (ICA): training program: curriculum
Folders 2-3: Intermuseum Conservation Association (ICA):
treatment report: Rubens, “The Archangel”
Folder 4: Intermuseum
Conservation Association (ICA): treatment and examination reports
Folder 5: Keck,
Caroline: cellosolve acetate technique, July 1976
Folder 6: Keck,
Sheldon
Folder 7: Lecture:
American Chemical Society
Folder 8: Lecture:
Annie S.
Folder 9: Lecture:
Art Institute of Chicago staff associates
Folder 10: Lecture:
Association for Preservation Technology, 1971; 1977
Folder 11: Lecture:
Belgium, 1989
Folder 12: Lecture:
Community Associates, Art Institute of Chicago
Box 10:
Folder 1: Lecture:
Conference for Conservation Administrators, 1986
Folder 2: Lecture:
Inter-Micro; also a paper in The
Microscope
Folder 3: Lecture:
Inter-Society Color Council (SCC), 1987
Folder 4: Lecture:
Joliet
Folder 5: Lecture:
Library of Congress, 1974
Folder 6: Lecture:
Louisville; Davenport, 1975
Folder 7: Lecture:
Louvain, Belgium, 1987
Folder 8: Lecture:
NIC, 1995
Folder 9: Lecture:
New York Microscopical Society, 1988
Folder 10: Lecture:
Oberlin seminar, 1985
Folder 11: Lecture:
Philadelphia Rheumatism Society, 1991
Folder 12: Lecture:
Research Society of America (RESA), Argonne chapter
Folder 13: Lecture:
SPNEA Paint Symposium, 1989
Folder 14: Lecture:
Venice, 1988 [also Berlin, mostly travel arrangements]
Folder 15: Lecture:
Washington Guild of Conservators
Folder 16: Lecture:
Winterthur, 1980, 1984
Box 11:
Folder 1: Lecture:
Woodmere Art Museum, 1988
Folder 2: Light
(issue of Scientific American, Sept.
1968)
Folder 3: Lining
adhesive tests at PMA
Folder 4: Lining
information, 1983
Folder 5: Lining
materials - Rosen
Folder 6: Manuscripts
– University of Chicago and Leuven, Belgium
Folder 7: Materials
analysis for other museums
Folder 8: McCrone
Research Institute and Shroud of Turin
Folder 9: McLaughlin,
Robert B. – correspondence
Folder 10: Meeting:
American Association of Museums: Conservation Colloquium, 1984
Folder 11: Meeting: “Color and Technique in
Renaissance Painting,” Temple University, 1980
Folder 12: Meeting:
Getty Conservation Institute: paintings conservation, 1986
Folder 13: Meeting:
Ohio Art Museum curators, 1974
Folder 14: Meeting:
Training program conference, Cooperstown, 1983
Box 12:
Folder 1: Meeting: Williamsburg paint symposium;
and SPNEA paint symposium – “Paint in America,” 1989
Folder 2: Michel-Levy
color chart
Folder 3: Microscopy:
crystallography techniques and information re: identifying pigments
Folder 4: Microscopy:
fluorescence
Folder 5: Microscopy:
measurement of lengths
Folder 6: Microscopy:
refractive index determination
Folder 7: Microscopy:
Tahk class, Cooperstown
Folder 8: Microscopy:
techniques for identifying pigments
Folder 9: Microscopy
course I – notes, 1968
Folder 10: Microscopy
course II – notes, 1969
Folder 11: Microscopy
for conservators I (class, 1972)
Folder 12: Microscopy
for conservators I - notes
Folder 13: Microscopy
for conservators, 1973 – lecture outlines
Folder 14: Microscopy
for conservators II, 1974
Box 13:
Folder 1: Microscopy
teaching materials
Folder 2: Miniatures
and Indian miniatures
Folders 3-4: Museum Studies: article on two Flemish
paintings
Folder 5: National
Gallery of Art (D.C.)
Folder 6: National
Museum Act advisory council (1978-1981)
Folder 7:
Folder 8: Notes:
Chemistry 103 – Man and Society, 1972
Folder 9: Optics
Folder 10: Paint
analyses for Mt.
Folder 11: Paint in America – review of Welsh’s
paper
Folder 12: Painting
materials and techniques
Folder 13: Painting
record [notes on painting and conservation of paintings]
Box 14:
Folder 1: Palettes
and painters’ implements
Folder 2: Paper:
Cezanne’s “Chestnut Trees,” AIC, 1973
Folder 3: Paper:
IIC-American Group, Oberlin, 1971
Folder 4: Papers
by Marigene Butler
Folder 5: Patination
Folder 6: Peale,
Charles Willson – treatment of paintings at PMA under NEA grant
Folder 7: Philadelphia
Museum of Art (PMA): conservator position
Folder 8: Photomicrography
Folder 9: Photomicrography
– Renoir
Folder 10: Pigment
charts
Folder 11: Pigment
descriptions – final version
Folder 12: Pigment
descriptions – atlas - condensed
Folder 13: Pigment
identifications (first form, typed)
Box 15
Folder 1: Pigment
identifications – reference materials
Folder 2: Pigment
manual from Oberlin
Folder 3: Pigment
reference material – atlas I
Folder 4: Pigment
reference material – atlas II
Folder 5: Pigments
– atlas
Folder 6: Pigments:
cave paintings
Folder 7: Pigments:
Cezanne water colors
Folder 8: Pigments:
chemical composition
Folder 9: Pigment:
China trade goods
Folder 10: Pigments:
Getten’s notebook on identification of pigments
Folder 11: Pigments:
microscopical observations
Folder 12: Pigments:
notable occurrences, 1987
Folder 13: Pigments
used in manuscripts
Box 16:
Folders 1-2: Plesters,
Joyce, and pigments
Folder 3: Plesters,
Joyce – cross-section paper, etc.
Folder 4: “Polarized Light Microscopy in the
Conservation of Painting” – article by Marigene Butler
Folder 5: Polychrome
sculpture – Bellestrem paper
Folder 6: Postal
Microscopical Society
[for
publications, see Box 21]
Folder 7: Quekett
Microscopical Club, ca. 1969-1978
Folder 8: Recipes
and materials
Folders 9-10: Relining
techniques [continues in next box]
Box 17:
Folder 1: Relining
techniques [continued from previous box]
Folder 2: Renoir
paintings – technical note
Folder 3: Richard,
M.J. – thesis on moisture barriers for wood
Folder 4: Royal
Microscopical Society
Folders 5-7: Shelburne
Museum
Folders 8-9: State
Microscopical Society of Illinois (SMSI)
Box 18:
Folder 1: State
Microscopical Society of Illinois (SMSI): antique microscopes
Folder 2: State Microscopical Society of
Illinois (SMSI): antique microscopes – photographs and captions
Folder 3: State
Microscopical Society of Illinois (SMSI): curator - current
Folder 4: State
Microscopical Society of Illinois (SMSI): curator, publications, 1970-1972
Folder 5: State
Microscopical Society of Illinois (SMSI): history records
Folder 6: State
Microscopical Society of Illinois (SMSI): The
Microscopists’ Newsletter
[for additional publications
of the SMSI, see Box 21]
Folder 7: Stout,
George - terminology
Folder 8: Surface
coatings
Folder 9: Teaching
materials – take on trips [continued in next box]
Box 19:
Folder 1: Teaching
materials – take on trips [continued from previous box]
Folder 2: Technical
notes – Italian 18th century paintings
Folder 3: Textbook
– “Microscopy for the Conservator of Art”
Folders 4-5: Training
program: Cooperstown
Folder 6: Training
program lectures, 1974
Folder 7: Transfers
Folder 8: Treadmill
Pond water
Folder 9: Treatment
reports – private work
Folder 10: Treatment
reports: Cades, “Fall of the Rebel Angels” – Young – Rofo 24919
Folder 11: Treatment reports: Cezanne, Paul,
“Chestnut Trees” (Minneapolis, RX 8793), and paper
Folder 12: Treatment reports: Tony Clark – Gavin
Hamilton – “Study for Villa Borghese,” “Scene from Life of Pairs and Helen”
Box 20:
Folder 1: Treatment
reports: Daubigny, Karl – “Fishing Boats” (Cunningham, no. 589)
Folder 2: Treatment
reports: David, Gerard – “Lamentation”
Folder 3: Treatment
reports: Davidson – flower paintings, Dutch
Folder 4: Treatment
reports: Davidson, Mrs. – “Pocahontas”
Folder 5: Treatment reports: Isabey,
Louis-Gabriel-Eugene – “The Stone Quarry” – Rx8162, C.C. Cunningham
Folder 6: Treatment reports: Jongkind, J.B. –
“La Grande Jettée de Honfleur” (C.C. Cunningham, Rofo 22668)
Folder 7: Treatment
reports: Lager, F. – “L’Homme au Chien” – Newman #825
Folder 8: Treatment
reports: Maxon paintings
Folder 9: Treatment
reports: Neumann, Morton
Folder 10: Treatment reports: Procaccini, Giulio
Casare – “Virgin and Child with Angles,” 1969.626
Folder 11: Treatment
reports: Renoir: Mme. Clapisson, etc.
Folder 12: Treatment
reports: St. Louis
Folder 13: Treatment
reports: Sully, Thomas
Folder 14: Treatment
reports: Weyerhaeuser – two Ter Borchs (Minneapolis Institute of Art)
Folder 15: University
of North Carolina, 1979
Folder 16: Venturi
& Scott Brown, architects
Folder 17: Vinland
map – L. McCrone
Folder 18: Winterthur:
evaluation of WUDPAC, 1976
Folder 19: Wood
fibers identification
Box 21:
publications
The Lens: vol. 1, no. 1-4; vol. 2, no. 1-4 (1872-1873)
(The Lens
is the “quarterly journal of microscopy and the allied natural sciences, with
the transactions of the State Microscopical Society of Illinois”; it includes
ads for microscopes.)
Postal Microscopical Society: Balsam
Post, no. 1 and 2 (Mach and November 1984);
42d annual report, 1914-15
State Microscopical Society of
State Microscopical Society of
State Microscopical Society of
Vol.
2, no. 1-2 (1976); spring/summer and fall/winter 1976; spring/summer 1977