RUBY EGGER-LIPSETT
Painting Conservation
Postgraduate Dissertation (Forthcoming Fall 2026)
Working Title: 'Sweetening' in Eighteenth-Century English Hydrated Alumina-Type Madder Lake Recipes: Processual Variations in the Clearing of Excess Metal Salts and their Impact on the Ageing Characteristics of Oil Paint Films
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Research Questions:
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Does the degree to which excess metal salts are cleared from madder lake pigment during its production, as dictated by three disparate historical English sources, affect the ageing characteristics of said pigments individually and/or as present within historically congruous oil paint films?
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If so, how are these ageing characteristics impacted; can a connection be established between certain washing protocols and incidents of metal soap efflorescence?
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Undergraduate Dissertation
Painting the ‘Absent’ In Gitxsan Territory: Pegi Nicol, Skeena Landscapes, and the Indigenised Production of Canadian National Identity in the 1920s chronicles the way in which artists were encouraged to draw upon Indigenous imagery, relegated to a distant romantic past and supposedly on the cusp of disappearing altogether, to produce a 'unique' visual culture for the young Dominion of Canada. This is achieved via a multidisciplinary approach which responds to both art historical and anthropological frameworks.
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Final Grade: 18.5/20