The Winterthur Library

 The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera

Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum

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]