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Caroline Martin Kohn Keck (October 6, 1908 - December 17, 2007) was a pioneer of art conservation. She and her husband, Sheldon Waugh Keck (May 30, 1910 – June 12, 1993), worked individually and together to advance the field of art conservation through their work with prominent Museums and individuals as well as efforts to develop training and education programs for conservation. Caroline Martin Kohn was born in New York City. She graduated from Vassar College and received a master’s degree in art history from Harvard University in 1932. While taking a course on art materials at the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard, she met Sheldon Keck and they were married the following year. In 1934, Sheldon Keck established an art conservation laboratory at the Brooklyn Museum, where he and Caroline Keck practiced painting conservation. They worked for private individuals such as Edwin Dickinson and Nelson A. Rockefeller, and as consultants for the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Phillips Collection in Washington and other institutions. The Keck’s were committed to education and helped to establish academic programs for conservation training and/or research, trained and taught interns and students, and lectured and published on topics in conservation. They were professionally involved in the International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (IIC) and the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC), where they both became honorary members and had special awards developed to honor their contributions to the field. Caroline Keck served as personal conservator for Georgia O’Keeffe for almost forty years.
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Caroline Martin Kohn Keck (October 6, 1908 - December 17, 2007) was a pioneer of art conservation. She and her husband, Sheldon Waugh Keck (May 30, 1910 – June 12, 1993), worked individually and together to advance the field of art conservation through their work with prominent Museums and individuals as well as efforts to develop training and education programs for conservation. Caroline Martin Kohn was born in New York City. She graduated from Vassar College and received a master’s degree in art history from Harvard University in 1932. While taking a course on art materials at the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard, she met Sheldon Keck and they were married the following year. In 1934, Sheldon Keck established an art conservation laboratory at the Brooklyn Museum, where he and Caroline Keck practiced painting conservation. They worked for private individuals such as Edwin Dickinson and Nelson A. Rockefeller, and as consultants for the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Phillips Collection in Washington and other institutions. The Keck’s were committed to education and helped to establish academic programs for conservation training and/or research, trained and taught interns and students, and lectured and published on topics in conservation. They were professionally involved in the International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (IIC) and the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC), where they both became honorary members and had special awards developed to honor their contributions to the field. Caroline Keck served as personal conservator for Georgia O’Keeffe for almost forty years.
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