About Debra Dickinson

For over three decades, Debra Dickinson has both independently restored and collaborated on fine art conservation projects for private collectors and public institutions including Harvard University, the Fogg Art Museum, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Whether you have a treasured family heirloom or a large museum collection, Dickinson Fine Art Conservation is dedicated to providing museum-quality art restoration services that adhere to a strict code of ethics, outlined by the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works.

Since 1985, Dickinson Fine Art Conservation has contributed to the preservation of art collections belonging to the Clark Art Institute, Norman Rockwell Museum, Bath Maritime Museum, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, RISD Museum, Worcester Art Museum, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Nantucket Whaling Museum, Smith College Museum of Art, among many others.

Debra Dickinson is a member of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works and of the New England Conservation Association. She is located in Wellfleet, Massachusetts and Newport, Rhode Island and has also lived and worked in Rome, Italy and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

WORKS RESTORED
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Milton Avery, Joseph Albers,  S.F.M. Badger,  Robert Beauchamp,  Gifford Beal,  Frank Weston Benson,  Pieter van Bleek,  William Bradford,  John Brewster,  Alfred T. Britcher,  George Elmer Brown,  George Loring Brown,  Paul Theodor van Brussel,  Dennis Miller Bunker,  James Edward Buttersworth,  Charles D Cahoon,  Ralph E Cahoon,  Alexander Calder,  Emil Carlson, Oliver Newberry Chaffee,  Edwin Graves Champney,  Bryant Chapin,  William Merritt Chase,  Frederick Edwin Church, Elmer A Crowell,  Jasper F. Cropsey,  Charles Courtney Curran,  Aelbert Cuyp,  Stuart Davis,  Edgar Degas,  Mauritz F.H. De Hass,  Elaine DeKooning,  Edwin Walter Dickinson,  Arthur Diehl,  Philip van Dijk,  Arthur Wesley Dow,  Asher Brown Durand,  Thomas Eakins,  John Joseph Ennekeing,  Anton Otto Fischer,  Gertrude Fiske,  Johannes Pieter de Frey,  Thomas Gainsborough,  Oscar H. Gieberich,  Charles Henry Gifford,  Abbott Fuller Graves,  Emile Albert Gruppe,  Childe Hassam,  Charles Webster Hawthorne,  Martin Johnson Heade,  Henry Hensche,  A.T. Hibbard,  Hans Hofmann,  Winslow Homer,  Edward Hopper,  Peter Hunt,  William Morris Hunt,  George Inness,  Antonio Jacobsen,  H. Bolton Jones,  Charles Kaeselau,  Wolf Kahn,  John Frederick Kensett,  Jan Kip,  Karl Knaths,  Lee Krasner,  John La Farge,  Fitz Henry Lane,  Blanche Lazzell,  Edward C Leavitt,  Lucy and William L’Engle,  Edmund Darch Lewis,  Philip Malicot,  Zygmunt Menkes,  Frans van der Mijn,  Ross E. Moffett,  Berthe Morisot,  Robert Motherwell,  Jan Muller,  Barnett Newman,  Samuel E Oppenheim,  Lillian Orlowsky ,  Pauline Palmer,  Maxfield Parrish,  Elizabeth Paxton, William Matthew Prior,  Alexander Pope,  Paul Resika,  William Trost Richards,  Theodore Robinson,  Norman Rockwell,  Gretchen Rogers,  Mark Rothko,  Judith Rothschild,  Albert Pinkham Ryder,  Ben Shahn,  Myron Stout,  Gilbert Stuart,  William P Stubbs,  Edmund C Tarbell,  Anthony Thieme,  Jacopo Tintoretto,  Jack Tworkov,  Frederick Waugh,  E. Ambrose Webster,  Agnes Weinrich,  Charles Woodbury,  William Gay Yorke,  William and Marguerite Zorach

Portrait of Rose Kennedy

This portrait of young Rose Kennedy was damaged during renovations.

Debra Dickinson was commissioned by Eunice Kennedy Shriver on behalf of the Special Olympics to restore this treasured work of art.

PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN
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STILL LIFE WITH CURRANTS
Painted by Edward Chalmers Leavitt

Edward C. Leavitt is one of Rhode Island’s most prolific and successful 19th century still life painters. In this painting, Leavitt’s signature style was obscured by three layers of discoloration; varnish and soot covered the entire canvas, while mold was scattered throughout.  Restoration was done in stages using assorted cleaning agents, enzymes and solvents to successfully remove all three disfiguring layers, one at a time.  The result was stunning, uncovering fruit and foliage once again gleaming with light, color and texture.

AN UNCONVENTIONAL COATING

This marine painting illustrates the damage done by years of nicotine accumulation. The left side illustrates a typical discolored varnish as revealed by several cleaning patches. On the right, however, the dark orange/brown coating is caused by nicotine.

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