Anne-Clark Cromwell was fortunate to begin her career in Art Restoration and Conservation over 20 years ago at the New Orleans Conservation Guild and is now working and restoring art work in her home studio in Charleston, South Carolina. She has been trained in the correct way to restore and preserve the treasures of our past, utilizing techniques that are centuries old. Anne-Clark has completed countless projects in studio, private residence, churches, hotels and other institutions over the years. Cromwell Art Restoration specializes in antique frames, gilded objects, sculptures and wooden artifacts, but also restores modern and contemporary works. She will do her best to return your art work to a condition that will not only preserve it but restore it as a thing of beauty and enjoyment.
Press
"In and era of shrinking global national, state and local support for museums and their programs, it is frequently all but impossible to put some objects into "exhibition condition" without assistance from skilled and qualified colleagues. Such was the case with the splendid First Empire (1804-14) carved giltwood frame surrounding Baron Antoine-Jean Gro's full-length 1808 portrait of Empress Josephine at her beloved chateau of Malmaison. The portrait belongs to the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Palais Masséna, Nice, France, and was presented by the empress to her friend Monsieur Pierlot in 1810......To accomplish this, the highly trained and skilled members of the New Orleans Conservation Guild team headed by senior frame restorer Anne-Clark Cromwell work for a total of seventy-eight hours, or nearly two forty-hour work weeks, and used thirteen books, or 325 leaves, of 23.75-karat gold. The brilliant result is an artfully restored frame that very closely resembles its original appearance in 1808, the year Baron Gros completed the major portrait it contains.
"With a Little Help from Our Friends: The New Orleans Conservation Guild Restores a First Empire Frame"
by John Webster Keefe
- Arts Quarterly, July/Aug/Sept 2003
A news report on the New Orleans Conservation Guild and the restoration of damage from hurricane Katrina with an interview of Anne-Clark Cromwell (Hudson) on Frame and object Restoration.
Fox 8 News
July 6, 2007
