Client Files
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Cranmer Art Group
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content: Cranmer Art Group records
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 55.2 Linear Feet (Boxes 1-54, 75)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1980-2021
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.cranmart, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Client files have been kept in the order they were received, which is chronologically by treatment year, and alphabetically by client within each year. Folder titles may include parenthetical reference to an artist if the client file represents a few artists or specific work.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Client files include material related to the proposed treatment and completed treatment of artworks treated by conservator Dana Cranmer and the Cranmer Art Group (CAG). Materials include delivery and stretcher invoices and orders, treatment proposals, bill invoices, shipping manifests, scattered slides and photographs of artwork, and some samples of work or treatment materials, such as fabric, paint chips, and tape. Previously in binders, large quantities of separated slides, photographs, and treatment reports are grouped for Ellsworth Kelly works, Brice Marden works, and Christopher Wool works damaged by Hurricane Sandy in 2012. Artists and artists' studios CAG worked with include Emma Amos, Ida Applebroog, Willem De Kooning and Studio, Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein Estate and Foundation, Brice Marden and Plane Image, Inc., Robert Rauschenberg Studio and Foundation, Mark Rothko Foundation, Judith Rothschild Foundation, Julian Schnabel Studio, Richard Serra, and Andy Warhol Foundation, among others.

Galleries, Museums, and Collectors include Vrej Baghoomian, Inc., Bark Frameworks, Mary Boone Gallery, Phillippe Briet Gallery, Castelli Gallery and Graphics, Christie's, Paula Cooper Gallery, Dedalus Foundation, Inc., the de Menils and the Menil Collection, Dia Center for the Arts, Ronald Feldman Gallery, Gagosian Gallery, Knoedler and Company, The Met, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and Sotheby's, among many others.

Artwork examined for treatment by CAG includes work by Bill Anatasi, Jo Baer, Hanne Darboven, Stuart Davis, Beauford Delaney, Richard Diebenkorn, Paul Feeley, Eric Fischl, Sam Francis, Jane Freilicher, Philip Guston, Keith Haring, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, Franz Kline, Yayoi Kusama, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Brice Marden, Agnes Marten, Joan Mitchell, Robert Motherwell, Isamu Noguchi, David Novros, Blinky Palermo, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Ad Reinhardt, Gerhard Richter, Ed Ruscha, Julian Schnabel, Sean Scully, Richard Serra, Nancy Spero, Frank Stella, and Andy Warhol, among others.