The
The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and
Printed Ephemera
Henry Francis du Pont
5105 Kennett Pike, Winterthur,
Delaware 19735
Telephone: 302-888-4600 or 800-448-3883
OVERVIEW OF
THE COLLECTION
Creator: Pouliot, Bruno P.
Title: Bruno Pouliot papers
Dates: circa 1980-circa 1986
Call No.: Col. 951
Acc. No.: 15x101
Quantity: 5 boxes
Location: 504 F 1
BIOGRAPHICAL
STATEMENT
Bruno P. Pouliot was an art conservator,
specializing in objects (in distinction from paintings or furniture). Pouliot studied archaeology at Université Laval,
receiving his diploma in 1980.
Assisting in the excavation of Roman ruins in Tunisia led to an interest
in art conservation, which he studied at Queen’s University in Kingston,
Ontario, graduating with a master’s degree in 1983.
Internships were spent in Calgary, Los Angeles,
France, and Germany. In 1985, for
ICCROM, he taught a course on the conservation of wooden objects in Mali. He also worked at the Prince of Wales Northern
Heritage Centre in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, and at the McCord Museum
in Montreal.
In 1997, Pouliot began working at Winterthur Museum,
where he served as senior objects conservator and assistant professor in the
Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation. Here, he oversaw the lacquering of silver
objects to prevent tarnish. He taught
the conservation of organic materials, including his interest in ethnographic
materials. He also wrote and published
papers and taught workshops around the world.
In 2010, Pouliot received the Sheldon and Caroline Keck Award, given by
the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC)
for excellence in the education and training of conservation professionals.
Bruno Pouliot died in 2018. A memorial service was held at Winterthur on
June 4.
SCOPE AND
CONTENT
A collection of papers reflecting the conservation
training and career of Bruno Pouliot, including several papers he wrote as a
student, and reports from early in his career as a conservator. Of interest are the syllabus, including
hand-outs in English and French, he used when teaching wooden object
conservation in Mali as part of an ICCROM project. Treatment reports (including slides and
photographs) from the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Glenbow Museum,
the Fowlers Museum at UCLA, and the McCord Museum are included. Conservation work on wampum belts led to a
talk, a published paper, and a blessing ceremony.
LANGUAGE OF
MATERIALS
The materials are in English and French.
RESTRICTIONS
ON ACCESS
Collection is open to the public. Copyright restrictions may apply.
PROVENANCE
Accession 15x101: Gift of Bruno Pouliot.
Additional files were transferred from Conservation
Department in summer 2018; these were not given an accession number.
ACCESS POINTS
Topics:
Art – Conservation and
restoration – Canada.
Art – Conservation and restoration – Mali.
Art restorers –
Training of.
DETAILED
DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION
Location: 504 F 1
Box 1:
Folder 1: Art
conservation class 06-820: laboratory notebook (Queen’s University)
Folder 2: “Conservation in Isolation: The
Northwest Territories Example,” by Bruno Pouliot and Rosalie Scott
Folder 3: “Ethical Perspectives in Ethnographic
Conservation …”: talk and paper by Bruno Pouliot, 1998
Folder 4: Glenbow Museum: condition and
treatment reports, 1983
Folder 5: ICCROM Training Workshop on the
Conservation and Treatment of Wooden Objects (held in Mali, 1985)
[work on an
ICCROM contract: International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and
Restoration of Cultural Property]
Folders 6-7: ICCROM Training Workshop: contracts,
reports, notes (Mali, 1985)
Folder 8: ICCROM
Training Workshop hand-outs (English) (Mali, 1985)
Box 2:
Folder 1: ICCROM
Training Workshop: hand-outs (français) (Mali, 1985)
Folder 2: IRAP – France, 1984
[Institut de Recherches Archeologiques et
Paleometallurgiques, working on a Gallic site]
Folder 3: “Incorporating Native Perspectives
into Exhibit Development …”: paper by Moira McCaffrey and Bruno Pouliot
Folder 4: Internships: Diary, summer 1982
Folder 5: Internships: reports
Folder 6: McCord Museum: miscellaneous
information and photographs
Folder 7: McCord Museum: treatment reports
[continues
in next box]
Box 3:
Folders 1-2: McCord Museum: treatment reports
[continued
from previous box]
Folder 3: Per Gulbeck Lecture: “When
Conservators Venture South of the Border,” 2002
Folders 4-5: Portfolio, 1981-1984 [treatment reports and
slides]
Folder 6: Prince of Wales Northern Heritage
Centre (Yellowknife, Northwest Territories)
Folder 7: Prince
of Wales Northern Heritage Centre: work diary
Folder 8: Prince of Wales Northern Heritage
Centre: treatment reports, 1986-1990:
unlabeled;
metals; synthetics; composite metals/organics; bone/antler/ivory
Box 4:
Folder 1: Prince of Wales Northern Heritage
Centre: treatment reports, 1986-1990:
Skin/fur;
feathers; wood/bark; unlabeled;
Folder 2: Queen’s
University; Glenbow and UCLA internships, 1980-1984
[see
also separate folders for Glenbow Museum and UCLA]
Folder 3: “A Story of Past and Present Power…”
[paper] and “An Example of Cooperation between Museums and First Peoples…”
[talk]: both dealing with wampum belts
[see
also folder: Wampum belts blessing ceremony]
Folder 4: Thesis:
research project on adhesives, Queen’s University, 1983
[title
page missing, exact title unknown]
Folder 5: Université
Laval
Folder 6: University
class papers:
“Terra
Sigillata of Gaul and Tunisia” (Jan. 1982);
“The Photography
of Fossils” (Feb. 1982);
“Soldering as a
Questionnable [sic] Practice in Conservation” (Nov. 1982);
“Acrylics in the
Field of Conservation: A Review of their Uses” (1983)
Folder 7: UCLA: Camwood project at Fowlers
Museum, 1984-1986: Part I: Research project
Folder 8: UCLA: Camwood project at Fowlers
Museum, 1984-1986: Part II: Symposium and talk, 1986
Folder 9: UCLA: Camwood project at Fowlers
Museum, 1984-1986: correspondence, references, negatives
Folder 10: Wampum belts blessing ceremony
[see also
folder: “A Story of Past and Present Power…”]
Box 5:
Folder 1: Université
Laval diploma for Bruno Pouliot, B.A., 1980
Folder 2: Cahier des études anciennes, VI:
Carthage I
[from
Les Presses de l’Université du Quebec, 1976]
Folder 3: Cahier des études anciennes, IX:
Carthage II
[from
Les Presses de l’Université du Quebec, 1978]