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In new role at Yale, art conservator will exhance campus programs
Ian McClure, an international leader in the field of art conservation, has
been appointed the Susan Morse Hilles Chief Conservator at the Yale University
Art Gallery.
McClure was previously director of the Hamilton Kerr Institute and assistant
director for conservation at the Fitzwilliam Museum, both in Cambridge, England.
At the Yale Art Gallery, McClure will direct the care and preservation of the
museum’s world-renowned collection. He will oversee the expansion of
the gallery’s conservation staff, while developing a long-range philosophy
and strategy in the areas of conservation treatment and research. Collaborating
with curators, scholars and conservators at Yale and beyond, he will work to
advance the gallery’s scholarship in the field of conservation through
research, publications and symposia.
In partnership with the Yale Center for British Art, McClure will create new
conservation treatment and research facilities for paintings, objects and works
on paper that will be shared by the two museums. McClure will also work at
Yale to enhance opportunities for conservation coursework and practicum at
the undergraduate and graduate level, and to integrate conservation more fully
into the University’s curriculum.
“We are thrilled that Ian is willing to cross the Atlantic to help boldly
expand the role that innovative research, interdisciplinary scholarship and expert
treatments can play in the lives of our two museums,” said Jock Reynolds,
the Henry J. Heinz II Director of the Yale Art Gallery. This sentiment was echoed
by Amy Meyers, director of the Yale Center for British Art, who said that she
and the other museum staff looked forward to working with McClure to build a
premiere conservation and teaching research program.
As director of the Hamilton Kerr Institute, McClure oversaw conservation services
for the Fitzwilliam Museum, the Royal Collection, the National Trust and other
collections open to the public. There, he also created a preminent painting
conservation training program and oversaw research at the nexus of art history,
science and preservation.
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