The Winterthur Library

 The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera

Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, DE  19735

302-888-4600 or 800-448-3883

 

 

OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION

 

Creator:          Zieske, Faith H., 1951-2005               

Title:               Faith Zieske conservation records

Dates:             1978-ca.2005

Call No.:         Col. 840

Acc. No.:         08x151

Quantity:        14 boxes (4.5 cu. ft.)

Location:        15 E 3-5

 

 

 

BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT

 

Faith Helane Zieske was an art conservator, specializing in conserving works on art on paper.  She worked at the Philadelphia Museum of Art for 22 years prior to her death in November 2005.  She was born on May 5, 1951, to Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Zieske, and grew up in Pontiac, Michigan.  Faith earned B.F.A. and M.F.A. degrees at Michigan State University, granted in 1975 and 1977 respectively.  She entered the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation (WUDPAC) in August 1979, where she studied conservation of works of art on paper under Anne Clapp and photographic conservation under Jose Orraca.  She served internships at the National Gallery of Art, Cambridge Historical Society, SPNEA, and with private conservators.  Faith was a member of the American Institute for Conservation, the International Institute for Conservation, and the Institute of Paper Conservation.  

 

 

SCOPE AND CONTENT

 

 The collection documents the entire span of Faith Zieske’s conservation career, from her pre-program work in Chicago, through her studies and internships in the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation (WUDPAC), her post-graduate internships, her job at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and her work for private clients.  A good part of the collection is comprised of treatment reports completed both as a student and as a professional conservator.  Almost half the collection, however, is related to her studies of watercolors by Paul Cézanne.  In 1996, the Philadelphia Museum of Art held an exhibit of Cézanne’s art, including watercolors and sketchbooks.  In addition to doing conservation work on the museum’s holdings, Zieske studied the papers and pigments he used.  She visited other museums as well, such as the Louvre and the Courtauld, to study their holdings of Cézanne’s watercolors.  She wrote and presented papers about her findings.  Another topic of interest to Zieske was pressure sensitive tape and how to remove it from paper.

 

 

ORGANIZATION

 

Although not formally arranged into the series, the papers are arranged thusly: general files, including the files on pressure sensitive tape; WUDPAC files; treatment reports for private clients; and files on Cézanne.

 

 

LANGUAGE OF MATERIALS

 

The materials are in English, with a very few in French.

 

 

RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS

 

Collection is open to the public.  Copyright restrictions may apply.

           

 

PROVENANCE

           

Gift of Jack Dobbins, husband of Faith Zieske.

 

 

ACCESS POINTS

 

            People:

                        Cézanne, Paul, 1839-1906.

 

Topics:           

            Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum.  Art Conservation Program.

            Philadelphia Museum of Art.

            University of Delaware. Art Conservation Program.

            Art restorers.

            Art – Conservation and restoration.

            Art – Conservation and restoration – Study and teaching.

            Museum conservation methods.

            Paper.

Pigments.

            Watercolor painting – Conservation and restoration.

           

 

 

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION

 

Location: 15 E 3-5

 

 

Box 1:

 

Folder 1:          American Institute for Conservation (AIC): Photographic Materials Group

 

Folder 2:          Art Institute of Chicago

 

Folder 3:          Correspondence, 1978, 1980

 

Folder 4:          Dard Hunter Paper Museum

 

Folder 5:          Job applications

 

Folder 6:          United States government personal qualifications statement

 

Folder 7:          Kress Foundation conservation fellowship, 1983

 

Folder 8:          National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) fellowship: Japan, 1985

 

Folder 9:          National Museum Act (NMA) grant application, 1982

 

Folder 10:        National Museum Act (NMA): final and quarterly reports on internship grant, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1984

           

Folder 11:        Treatment notes: Pomerantz (1978) and Barb Hall (1979)

 

Folder 12:        Smithsonian: Conservation Analytical Laboratory

 

Folder 13:        Smithsonian: National Museum of American History (NMAH): treatment reports

 

Folder 14:        Smithsonian: National Museum of American History (NMAH): Debbie Hess Norris visit

 

Folder 15:        Smithsonian: negative storage and conservation survey

 

 

Box 2:

 

Folder 1:          Smithsonian: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: final report of phase I: storage survey

 

Folder 2:          Drying experiment: alternate methods of drying paper

 

Folder 3:          Institute of Paper Conservation, 1986

 

Folder 4:          Old Masters Drawings Seminar

 

Folders 5-6:     Photographic processes

 

Folder 7:          Zieske, Faith: sketchbook from France

 

Folder 8:          Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) presentation

 

 

Box 3:

 

Folder 1:          Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA): selected major treatments

 

Folder 2:          Princeton Preservation Group

 

Folder 3:          Tape: rosin esters: working notes

 

Folder 4:          Tape: pressure sensitive tapes: general

 

Folder 5:          Tape: pressure sensitive adhesives, rosin tackifiers

 

Folders 6-7:     Tape: pressure sensitive adhesives, rubber-based adhesives

 

Folder 8:          Tape deterioration: Feller/Encke article

 

Folder 9:          Tape removal

 

 

Box 4: WUDPAC files

 

Folder 1:          WUDPAC: first year and pre-conservation portfolio

 

Folder 2:          WUDPAC: class handouts/notes, 1979/80, 1980/81

 

Folder 3:          WUDPAC treatments: slides

 

Folder 4:          WUDPAC: photograph treatment reports, under Jose Orraca

 

Folders 5-6:     WUDPAC: treatment portfolio 

 

 

Box 5: WUDPAC files

 

Folders 1-2:     Treatment portfolio, to 1983

 

Folder 3:          WUDPAC: summer internship, Cambridge Historical Society (Mass.), 1981

 

Folder 4:          WUDPAC: summer internship, Cambridge Historical Society (Mass.): wallpaper

 

Folder 5:          WUDPAC: internship at National Gallery of Art (1981-1982)

 

 

Box 6: WUDPAC files

 

Folder 1:          WUDPAC: internship at National Gallery of Art: Rembrandt prints paper analysis

 

Folder 2:          Zieske, “The Technical  Examination of Papers used by Rembrandt for Prints”

 

Folders 3-4:     WUDPAC: internship with Christa Gaehde: treatment portfolio

 

 

Box 7: Private work (treatment reports)

 

Folder 1:          Forms and notes

 

Folder 2:          Insurance: Huntington Block

 

Folder 3:          Treatment reports: Allan; Atkin; Bailey

 

Folder 4:          Treatment reports: Baltimore Museum of Art

 

Folder 5:          Treatment reports: Barnes Foundation, Butler, Caplan, Cassow, Chacker, Cohn, d’Harnoncourt, Doney, Elias, Ferrillo, Frameworks, Gapp, Garvan

 

Folder 6:          Treatment reports: Grace, Grimes, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Howard, Joiner, Kaiserman, Katz, Keene

 

Folder 7:          Treatment reports: Kocher, Korman, Lee, Lewis, Linsenberg, Loudon Collection

 

 

Box 8: Private work (treatment reports)

 

Folder 1:          Treatment reports: Mangel, Manning, McNeil, Marklin, Moore College

 

Folder 2:          Treatment reports: Perakis, Robbins, St. Hubert’s Giralda, Shanks

 

Folder 3:          Treatment reports: Somlyo, Stroud, Tatnall, Temkin, Vanderselt, Vink, Walker

 

Box 9: Cézanne

 

Folder 1:          Zieske, Faith, “The Conservation of Two Sketchbooks by Paul Cézanne”

 

Folder 2:          Zieske, Faith, “Paul Cézanne’s Watercolors: His Choice of Pigments and Papers”

 

Folder 3:          Cézanne: AIC talk and paper

 

Folder 4:          Cézanne: Bibliography

 

Folder 5:          Cézanne: correspondence about

 

Folder 6:          Cézanne in Aix and the Riviera

 

Folder 7:          Cézanne: “Les Dessins de Paul Cézanne,” par Adrien Chappuis (1962)

 

Folder 8:          Cézanne: miscellaneous information

 

Folder 9:          Cézanne: oil paintings

 

Folder 10:        Cézanne: PMA symposium talk

 

Folder 11:        Cézanne: Princeton Art Museum

 

Folder 12:        Cézanne: Princeton Art Museum: current

 

 

Box 10: Cézanne

 

Folder 1:          Cézanne: Princeton Art Museum: general

 

Folder 2:          Cézanne: Princeton talk

 

Folder 3:          Cézanne: analysis of watercolors (assorted notes)

 

Folder 4:          Cézanne: catalog: chronology and essay

 

Folder 5:          Cézanne: paper for swatches for computer enhancement

 

Folder 6:          Cézanne: technique of late watercolors

 

Folder 7:          Cézanne: techniques

 

Folder 8:          Cézanne: watercolor talk at Winterthur (1996)

 

Folders 9-10:   Cézanne: watercolors

 

 

Box 11: Cézanne

 

Folder 1:          Cézanne: watercolors: Louvre, Courtauld [Zieske’s notebook]

 

Folder 2:          Cézanne: watercolor photos: Princeton

 

Folder 3:          Cézanne: watercolors: papers

 

Folder 4:          Cézanne: watercolor paper analysis

 

Folder 5:          Cézanne: paper: fiber analysis

 

Folders 6-7:     Cézanne: watercolors: paper making

 

Folder 8:          Cézanne: watercolors: various photos

 

Folder 9:          Cézanne: Aeneas Meeting Dido; and Arbres formant une voute [“Trees forming an arch”]

 

Folder 10:        Cézanne: “Aix Cathedral”

 

 

Box 12: Cézanne

 

Folder 1:          Cézanne: “The Balcony”

 

Folder 2:          Cézanne: Broussailles [“Undergrowth”], and Chemins, Arbres, Murs [“Paths, Trees, Walls]

 

Folder 3:          Cézanne: “Carafe and Knife” and “Metal Bed”

 

Folder 4:          Cézanne: Chemin sous bois [“Forest Path”]; and Etude de crane [“Study of a skull”]

 

Folder 5:          Cézanne: La Fontaine, Place de la Mairie… [“Fountain”]; and Maisons  en haut du Chemin des Lauves [“The Turn in the Road”]

 

Folder 6:          Cézanne: “House on a Hill”

 

Folder 7:          Cézanne: “Landscape with Trees” or “Rocks and Trees”

 

Folder 8:          Cézanne: Maison en Provence; and La Montaigne Sainte-Victoire

 

Folder 9:          Cézanne: Olympia

 

Folder 10:        Cézanne: “Oranges on a Plate”

 

Folder 11:        Cézanne: Parc du Chateau Noir; and Le Citerne au parc de Chateau Noir

 

Folder 12:        Cézanne: Rochers de Bibemus; and Sois Bois [“Forest Interior”]

 

Folder 13:        Cézanne: “Still Life”; and Trois Poires [“Three Pears”]

 

Folder 14:        Cézanne: “Trees and Rocks #1”

 

Folder 15:        Cézanne: “Trees and Rocks”

 

Folder 16:        Cézanne: works at Art Institute of Chicago

 

Folder 17:        Cézanne: works at the Courtauld

 

Folder 18:        Cézanne: watercolors in the Louvre

 

Folder 19:        Cézanne: works at Metropolitan Museum and Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)

 

Folder 20:        Cézanne: works at National Gallery of Ireland

 

Folder 21:        Cézanne: sketchbooks: PMA: fiber analysis

 

Folder 22:        Cézanne: sketchbooks: PMA: notes

 

 

Box 13: Cézanne

 

Folder 1:          Cézanne: sketchbooks: PMA: paper analysis

 

Folder 2:          Cézanne: sketchbooks: PMA: solvents

 

Folder 3:          Cézanne: sketchbooks: PMA: tape adhesive analysis

 

Folder 4:          Cézanne: sketchbooks: PMA: XRF and x-ray diffraction

 

Folder 5:          Cézanne: sketchbooks: PMA: FZ research

 

Folder 6:          Cézanne: sketchbook research; and adhesive notes

 

Folder 7:          Cézanne: sketchbooks: tape adhesive and carrier analysis, FTIR Spectra plots

 

Folder 8:          Cézanne: sketchbooks: Art Institute of Chicago

 

Folder 9:          Cézanne: sketchbooks: Louvre

 

Folder 10:        Cézanne: sketchbooks: photocopies of pages [location of original not noted]

 

Folder 11:        Cézanne: sketchbooks: Thaw Collection           

 

Folder 12:        Media: pigments, general

 

 

Box 14: Cézanne

 

Folder 1:          Paper

 

Folder 2:          Paper: French paper history

 

Folder 3:          Pigments

 

Folder 4:          Trade catalogs of artists’ materials, 19th century [photocopies]

 

Folders 5-6:     Watercolor pigments

 

 

Folder on shelf:

 

Emgrn xrd patterns [10 long narrow strips of x-ray film]