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The Greater Hudson Heritage Network (GHHN) and the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) are awarding $236,963 in conservation treatment grants to 35 organizations in 25 New York State counties. Conservation Treatment Grants fund professional conservation to stabilize and preserve objects and works of art in New York museums, history centers, and cultural organizations.
Generous support has also been provided by the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation for conservation treatment projects in Nassau & Suffolk counties and New York City; and the Coby Foundation for textile conservation treatment projects.
Over the past two years, the NYSCA/GHHN Conservation Treatment Grants guidelines were revised to make funding more accessible for projects that reflect the spectrum of communities and cultures across New York State. Supported projects include conservation of a lacquered wood statue of a 24-arm Avalokiteshvara at the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art; a silk and cotton textile of the Charlotte Fire Department “Firemen’s Parade Banner” from 1911 at The Charlotte-Genesee Lighthouse Historical Society; Setalcott indigenous regalia from the mid-20th century at the Long Island Museum of American Art, History and Carriages; a decorative French handmade “Southworth homestead French Scenic Wallpaper” panel from the early 1800s at Dryden Town Historical Society; and a shop awning fragment with Painted valence from the Mee Heung Chow Main Company at the Museum of Chinese in America. A full list of recipients can be found below.
“The field of conservation is continually changing,” noted GHHN Executive Director Priscilla Brendler. “It requires practitioners who have demonstrated high levels of proficiency and advanced knowledge, adherence to the ethics and standards of the American Institute of Conservation (AIC), and who are recognized for their expertise in the museum field. We are pleased these awards will involve 20 individual conservators and 4 conservation labs to conserve New York State's irreplaceable cultural treasures.”
NYSCA Executive Director Erika Mallin said, “These compelling projects offer us a window into our rich creative heritage. NYSCA is proud that this funding is more accessible to organizations that reflect the diverse cultural traditions of New York State and we congratulate all the grantees on this vital work. Thank you for your dedication to preserving and celebrating New York’s art and culture.”
This year, 41 grant applications were received at GHHN from institutions in 25 counties in New York State, requesting an aggregate of $337,330 in grant support. In all, requests were made for the treatment of 89 objects, of which 35 organizational awards totaling $236,963 were recommended by a peer panel of conservators, curators, and museum professionals. Of the 35 organizations that received funding, only one received partial funding; the rest received the full funding requested. 2025 Conservation Treatment Grant awards range from $2,889 to the maximum amount of $7,500. Of the 41 applicant institutions, 7 had budgets under $99,000, 10 had budgets between $100,000 and $300,000, 8 had budgets between $300,001 and $1 million, 9 had budgets between $1 million and $5 million, and 7 institutions had budgets over $5 million. Organizational operating budgets for 2025 grant applicants range from $6,400 to $37 million.
Congratulations to the 2025 Conservation Treatment Grant Recipients:
Albany Institute of History & Art (Albany County)
$7,500.00 for the conservation of the painting and frame “Adoration of the Child”
painted in 1915 by Samantha Littlefield Huntley (1865-1949).
Conservator: Hallie Halpern (painting) and Tanja McGivney (frame)
Bard College+ (Dutchess County)
$7,500.00 for the conservation of a flag commemorating St. Stephen’s College veterans who served and died in World War I.
Conservator: Textile Conservation Workshop
Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum and Gardens* (Bronx County)
$5,175.00 for the conservation of a marble-top center table.
Conservator: Cathy Mackenzie Fine Furniture Care
Boscobel House and Gardens (Putnam County)
$7,500.00 for the conservation of the oil-on-canvas painting "Narcissus" by Benjamin West, c. 1808.
Conservator: Nadia Ghannam, Fine Art Conservation
Bowne House Historical Society*+ (Queens Country)
$7,500.00 for the conservation of three 19th-century unframed textile samplers:
“Ann Wakelee” sampler with alphabet with leafy vine border, unframed; unattributed sampler, unframed; and unattributed "blueline" sampler, unframed. Conservator: Textile Conservation Workshop
Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University (Niagara County)
$7,000.00 for the conservation of the oil on canvas painting and frame of a “Portrait of a Girl with a Doll” by George Luks, n.d.
Conservator: Great Lakes Art Conservation of New York, LLC
Cayuga Museum of History and Art+ (Cayuga County)
$6,000.00 for the conservation of the textile red-and-white signature quilt made by Emeline Barnes of Auburn, NY, c.1860.
Conservator: Trupin Conservation Services, LLC
Chenango County Historical Society & Museum (Chenango County)
$5,000.00 for the conservation of the oil on canvas painting and frame depicting Native Americans in a canoe flotilla, attributed to Tompkins Harrison Matteson (1813 - 1884).
Conservator: West Lake Art Conservation Center
Clinton County Historical Association (Clinton County)
$7,000.00 for the conservation of the oil on canvas painting and frame of Levi Platt (1781-1849), attributed to Abraham G. D. Tuthill.
Conservator: Phillips Art Conservation
Dryden Town Historical Society (Tompkins County)
$7,500.00 for the conservation of a decorative French handmade “Southworth
homestead French Scenic Wallpaper” panel from the early 1800s.
Conservator: West Lake Art Conservation Center
Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center (Rockland County)
$7,500.00 for the conservation of two watercolor paintings and frames of “Mrs. Scott’s House” (1932) and “Stove & Fireplace, 3 Washington Square” (c. 1930s), painted by Josephine Nivison Hopper.
Conservator: Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts
Everson Museum of Art (Onondaga County)
$2,889.00 for the conservation of two painted stoneware sculptures, “Mattress” by Helen Frankenthaler and “Untitled” by Stanley Boxer.
Conservator: Kasia Maroney Conservation, LLC
Fenimore Art Museum (Otsego County)
$7,500.00 for the conservation of the oil on canvas painting and frame of “View of New York Harbor”, ca. 1837-1847, by Edmund C. Coates.
Conservator: West Lake Art Conservation Center
Genesee Country Village & Museum (Monroe County)
$3,285.00 for the conservation of a bronze sculpture, “Of One Heart” by George
Carlson, 1980.
Conservator: Studio Brundrett, LLC
Historic Hudson Valley+ (Westchester County)
$7,500.00 for the conservation of two 19th-century dolls, known as “Belinda,” a
porcelain head on cloth body, c.1850, and “Will,” a cloth doll, c.1850. Conservator: Textile Conservation Workshop
Holland Purchase Historical Society (Genesee County)
$6,140.00 for the conservation of two oil on canvas paintings and frames of “Joseph Ellicott, 1820” by Tuttle and his sister “Rachel Ellicott, ca.1820” by
F. Falinsky.
Conservator: Aurora Art Conservation
Hudson River Museum (Westchester County)
$7,500.00 for the conservation of the oil on canvas and frame “Vesuviana” circa 1955 by Dorothy Block.
Conservator: Moro Studio Inc.
Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art* (Richmond County)
$7,500.00 for the conservation of the lacquered wood statue of a 24-arm
Avalokiteshvara (the Bodhisattva with universal powers).
Conservator: Give Me A Break (GMAB) Conservation Services, Inc.
Lindenhurst Historical Society*+ (Suffolk County)
$7,500.00 for the conservation of two cloth and ceramic dolls: “Miss Calico”, a French doll c. 1900 and “Miss Little Red Cape”, a German doll c.1905. Conservator: A.M. Art Conservation, LLC
Livingston County Historical Society (Livingston County)
$3,598.00 for the conservation of the framed panorama photograph and frame of the 1915 Avon Fire Department Annual Inspection and the 1849 Genesee Valley Canal Broadside.
Conservator: Gary E. Albright
Lyndhurst, a site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation+ (Westchester County)
$7,500.00 for the conservation of two dresses belonging to Helen and Anna Gould: a satin, chiffon, organza, and net-silk Edwardian White Beaded Dress and blue velvet and chiffon “Legion of Honor” Dress with the Cross of the French Légion d'Honneur pin, awarded to Anne Gould in 1932.
Conservator: Textile Conservation Workshop
Museum of Chinese in America*+ (New York County)
$7,500.00 for the conservation of a textile shop awning fragment with Painted valence from the Mee Heung Chow Main Company, c. 1927.
Conservator: A.M. Art Conservation, LLC
Museum Village of Old Smith's Cove+ (Orange County)
$7,500.00 for the conservation of a Civil War era New York Militia wool dress uniform coat.
Conservator: Textile Conservation Workshop
National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame (Saratoga County)
$4,576.00 for the conservation of the oil on canvas portrait and frame of Isabel Dodge Sloane by artist Constantin Alajalov, 1960.
Conservator: West Lake Art Conservation Center
North Salem Historical Society+ (Westchester County)
$7,500.00 for the conservation of a cotton floral quilt created by Mary Catherine
Dearborn, 1847-49.
Conservator: Textile Conservation Workshop
Onondaga Historical Association (Onondaga County)
$6,300.00 for the conservation of the oil on canvas portrait and frame of the Black female folk guitarist & singer, Grammy Award recipient, “Elizabeth ‘Libba’ Cotton”, 1983.
Conservator: West Lake Art Conservation Center
Oysterponds Historical Society*+ (Suffolk County)
$7,500.00 for the conservation of the textile “Orient Wide Awakes Banner” from the Civil War era.
Conservator: Textile Conservation Workshop
Putnam History Museum (Putnam County)
$7,500.00 for the conservation of the oil on canvas painting and frame of "The Gun Foundry" by John Ferguson Weir, 1886.
Conservator: Nadia Ghannam, Fine Art Conservation
Seneca Falls Historical Society (Seneca County)
$7,500.00 for the conservation of the oil on canvas painting and frame of “Charles Minton Baker” by Randall Palmer, 1835.
Conservator: West Lake Art Conservation Center
The Charlotte-Genesee Lighthouse Historical Society+ (Monroe County)
$7,500.00 for the conservation of the silk and cotton textile of the Charlotte Fire
Department “Firemen’s Parade Banner”, 1911.
Conservator: Spicer Art Conservation
The Historical Society, Inc. serving Sleepy Hollow and Tarrytown (Westchester County)
$7,500.00 conservation of the oil on canvas painting and frame of the “Portrait of Mrs. Nichols”, artist unknown, c.1863.
Conservator: Patterson Fine Art Conservation, LLC
The Long Island Museum of American Art, History, and Carriages*+ (Suffolk County)
$7,500.00 for the conservation of the textile, leather, bone, bead, and feather Setalcott indigenous regalia (headdress, breastplate, necklace, shirt, pants, fan, and choker), c. mid-20th century.
Conservator: A.M. Art Conservation, LLC
The New York Historical*+ (New York County)
$7,500.00 for the conservation of the textile doll "Willy" owned by Thea Spyer, attributed to Käthe Kruse, ca. 1931-1939.
Conservators: Boro 6 Art Conservation and Shelley Greenspan, independent textile conservator
The Whaling Museum and Education Center*+ (Suffolk County)
$7,500.00 for the conservation of a cotton day dress, circa 1840, attributed to the
Gardiner Family of Long Island.
Conservator: Textile Conservation Workshop
Yates County History Center (Yates County)
$7,500.00 conservation of the painting and frame of the “Portrait of Adam Hunt”, (1736-1806), artist unknown.
Conservator: Zold Art Conservation
* Indicates additional funding from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation
+ Indicates additional funding from the Coby Foundation
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