Femenella & Associates
can provide a full list of museum exhibition services. The principal
of the firm is currently the conservator and curator for the In
Company With Angels collection of Tiffany windows currently touring
the United States. Mr. Femenella has handled windows, lamps and objects
by Louis Comfort Tiffany, John LaFarge and Frank Lloyd Wright for museums
in the United States and abroad. We are especially well-suited to assist
with traveling exhibitions.
In Company
With Angels - Collection Currently Touring The United States
Restoration
of seven Tiffany angel windows each measuring 24" x 84". Restoration
included: documentation, edge-gluing, partial releading, restoration
of wood frames, design and fabrication of decorative display light boxes.
Mr. Femenella was selected to be the curator of this window collection
that is currently touring museums across the United States.
Belasco
Theatre - New York, NY
Restoration
of a number of Tiffany lay light panels set into the ceiling of the
theatre. Restoration included: documentation, edge-gluing, partial releading,
design of augmented support system. Complete rewiring of the illumination
system. Restoration of metal frames.
Restoration of a number of leaded glass panels to include glass replication
and releading, restoration, cleaning and/or replication of 60 Tiffany
fixtures, replication of 2,000 pieces of Tiffany glass to include iridized
globes, turtlebacks and iridized pressed jewels.
Louis Comfort
Tiffany "Masterworks" Exhibition - Renwick Gallery, Nmaa, Smithsonian
Institution, Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Museum Of Art, New York.
1. Sarah Fay Memorial
window, 5' wide x 13' high
2. Helen Gould Memorial window, 5' w x 12' h
3. Four Seasons window, 4' w x 8' h
4. Peacock window, 30" w x 10' h
5. Cockatoo window, 30" w x 10' h
6. Magnolia and Wisteria window, 4 panels each 32" w x 78"
h
7. Magnolia window, 42" w x 24" h
8. Landscape Triptych window, 3 panels each 30" w x 80" h
9. Hydrangea window, 38" w x 44" h
10. Peonies in a Copper Pitcher, 46" w x 62" h
Prepared
initial condition reports and conservation proposals. Supervised conservation
efforts that included edge-gluing, cleaning, partial releading, restructuring
and reframing.
Louis Comfort
Tiffany "Masterworks" Exhibition - Tokyo, Kobe, Nagoya, And
Toyama, Japan.
Various
duties in assisting the Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting Company with the traveling
exhibition of 94 pieces of Tiffany glass art at four museums in Japan.
Exhibit included 10 windows; 28 table and floor lamps; and 52 vases,
paperweights, paintings, and other decorative objects. Prepared initial
condition reports. Designed and fabricated custom crating. Assisted
the curators with the mounting and dismounting of the objects at each
venue.
La Farge Exhibition
- National Museum of American Art (NMAA), Smithsonian Institution, Washington,
D.C.
Restored
nine of ten windows exhibited. Consulted with museum staff for designs
of light boxes, exhibition space and shipping crates. Supervised the
conservation of the windows and the mounting and dismounting of exhibit
at two of the three venues. Supervised crating and shipping from the
NMAA to Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh and then to the Museum of Fine Art,
Boston. Windows included in the Exhibition: Butterflies, Arabesque Fire
Screen, Boston Peonies in the Wind, Washington Peonies in the Wind,
Fish, Bacchus and Child, Peacock and Peonies from NMAA, and Dawn on
the Edge of Night. (Project completed while Vice-President of Greenland
Studio, New York.)
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