Carol Mancusi-Ungaro receives Forbes Prize

Carol Mancusi-Ungaro, Melva Bucksbaum Associate Director for
Conservation and Research at the Whitney Museum of American Art, has
been awarded the biennial Forbes Prize for conspicuous services to
Conservation by the International Institute for Conservation of
Historic and Artistic Works, its highest honour.  Carol
Mancusi-Ungaro is the twenty-fourth recipient of the Prize.

Carol Mancusi-Ungaro holds held until last year a joint appointment
as director of conservation at the Whitney Museum of American Art in
New York, USA and founding director of the Centre for the Technical
Study of Modern Art at Harvard University Art Museums, also in the
US.  For nineteen years she served as Chief Conservator of the Menil
Collection in Houston in Texas and founded the Artists'
Documentation Programme wherein she interviews artists about the
technical nature of their art.  In 2004 she received the American
College Art Association/Heritage Preservation Award for Distinction
in Scholarship and Conservation and in 2009 she was elected a fellow
of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, marking the Academy's
first recognition of art conservation.

A Fellow of IIC for many years, Carol Mancusi-Ungaro has written on
the work of Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Cy Twombly, and Barnett
Newman among others, and continues to engage in research documenting
the materials and techniques of living artists, as well as other
issues related to the conservation of modern art.

The Forbes Prize Lecture traces its roots to 1958, when a Forbes
Prize Fund was set up at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University,
USA, in recognition of Edward W. Forbes's services to conservation.
The first Forbes Prize Lecture was given at the 1961 Rome Congress
by Harold Plenderleith and a Forbes Prize Lecture has been given at
each subsequent IIC Congress.

The IIC Congress will take place 12-16 September 2016, in Los
Angeles, USA.  More details can be found at the IIC web-site.

Graham Voce
Executive Secretary
International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic
    Works
3 Birdcage Walk
+44 20 7799 5500
Fax: +44 20 7799 4961


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