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adequate appraisers appropriate Architectural Conservation areas authorized personnel auxiliary personnel budget Calif clients CODE OF ETHICS Committee on Conservation committee's Conservation Advisory Council Conservation Department conservation facilities conservation needs Conservation of Historic conservation services conservation treatment facilities conservation treatment services contract cooperative conservation organizations Cooperstown directors equipment Ethics and Standards examination and treatment expertise freelance conservators funds historic and artistic IN-HOUSE FACILITIES SERVING income individuals insti institution's Kimbell Art Museum materials meet member institutions ment method Museum of Art Museums USA National Conservation Advisory object obtain operating owner or custodian parent institution Photographs priority private collections private practice problems procedures profession PROFESSIONAL CONSERVATORS recommended Regional Conservation Center Report of Examination scientific servation specific sponsoring institution staff STANDARDS OF PRACTICE storage structures Study Committee tion services treatment of historic type of facility unethical Washington Winterthur Museum
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Page 31 - In fixing fees, lawyers should avoid charges which overestimate their advice and services, as well as those which undervalue them. A client's ability to pay cannot justify a charge in excess of the value of the service, though his poverty may require a less charge, or even none at all.
Page 31 - ... (2) whether the acceptance of employment in the particular case will preclude the lawyer's appearance for others in cases likely to arise out of the transaction...
Page 40 - Safety of Historic and Artistic Works in the laboratory is of paramount importance. 1. Protection Against Environmental Hazards such as unsuitable levels of relative humidity, temperature, light and atmospheric pollution (including solvent vapors) should be provided. 2. Protection Against Theft. Working and storage areas should be of adequate construction and capable of systematic locking routine. Only authorized personnel should have access. 3.
Page 28 - The primary purpose of this document was: "to provide accepted criteria against which a specific procedure or operation can be measured when a question as to its adequacy has been raised.
Page 40 - Auxiliary personnel should not be permitted to handle objects without adequate training and supervision. They should not engage in activities for which they have inadequate professional training. (c) Objects should not be removed from the operating or storage building except on due notice and with authorization by the owner or custodial institution, except when required for safety reasons. (d) Transportation and packing of objects should be by approved agencies and according to established methods....
Page 35 - A contract should include the need for a clear written statement of the following: the exact work to be done, the basis for charges, if any, the extent and substance of reports, including photographs as appropriate, responsibility for insurance coverage deemed adequate for operator, owner, and object, provisions for safeguarding objects, method of delivery, and any subcontracting or reassignment of work.
Page 39 - ... during process of treatment. Photographs or diagrams which clarify method of reconstruction or compensation. V. PROCEDURES SPECIFICALLY APPLYING TO EXAMINATION AND TREATMENT OF WORKS OF ART BY SELF-EMPLOYED PROFESSIONAL CONSERVATORS These do not differ from those applying to institutional employees except in the fields of contractual relations and assumption of responsibility. Procedures in these fields shall include: A. Written proposals stating: 1. Work to be done, estimated charges, and estimated...
Page 36 - III. PROCEDURE FOR INITIATING, CONDUCTING, AND REPORTING IN SCIENTIFIC ANALYTICAL STUDIES OF HISTORIC AND ARTISTIC WORKS Whenever it becomes necessary for owners of historic and artistic works to request institutional or commercial analytical laboratories or private consultants to engage in scientific study of objects for the purpose of developing data which may bear on condition, authenticity, authorship, or age of a specific object, the following procedure shall be followed by all parties concerned:...
Page 35 - ... AUGUST 7, 1963 I. PREAMBLE The following standards and procedures are approved by IICAG as applying to professional practice by conservators, as defined in the Articles of Association of IIC, in the examination and treatment of works of art. Such practice is considered to comprise three categories. A. Scientific analytical study of art objects, for such purposes as identifying materials, method of construction, modifications by age or other agencies, and comparison with comparable material, but...
Page 28 - May 27, 1967, was produced by the Committee on Professional Relations: Sheldon Keck, Chairman, Richard D. Buck, Dudley T. Easby, Rutherford J. Gettens, Caroline Keck, Peter Michaels and Louis Pomerantz. The...