Some Thoughts on Glazing

Glazing is a term framers use to refer to  “the glass”, and glazing products are available as a wide variety of materials designed to address certain criteria such as clarity, ease of cleaning, safety, filtration of ultraviolet light as well as light in general, and...

Glazing an Ad Reinhardt Painting with Optium

by Chris Barnett A memorable framing project presented itself to us in late 2012, when Paula De Cristofaro, the paintings conservator at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, contacted me concerning a 1958 Ad Reinhardt painting. With a canvas measuring 40 x 108, the...