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The John Annesley Company has products that are used by art conservators worldwide. Products popular with art restorers include:
Expansion bolt stretcher bars - Also called "museum bars", our expansion bolt stretchers can be ordered to exact size in any fraction of inches or centimeters. Plus they can be customized even further (see pictures below).
Regular Stretcher Bars - At just 3/4" it's our thinnest profile available while the basswood still maintains some integrity and strength. All braces are mortised and tenon, it's a wood keyed system. The product was designed especially for re-stretching artwork where the barest minimum of fabric on the sides is available.
Unprimed linen fabric- We have linen fabric up to 120" wide, and can provide small to huge pieces.
Polyester fabric- Used for re-lining paintings, conservators glue an old, delicate canvas onto to a pre-stretched piece of polyester. Then they don't have to worry about buckling or crinkling the paint. The polyester fabric creates a moisture proof buffer between the stretchers and the wall that will last forever.
Canvas Pliers- When re-stretching delicate art our canvas pliers make the job so much easier.
Customized Turnbuckles- These allow conservators to make careful adjustments of wood-keyed stretcher bars.
Services for Conservators
We purposefully create oblique and unusual expansion bolt stretcher bars to meet the needs of art conservators. In the picture, notice how far 'out of square' this traditional wood-key stretcher is. Conservators supply us with a template (mylar tracing) of existing bars and we make new basswood stretchers that conform to the original contours of older paintings, even severe parallelograms or uneven shapes.
This is a back view of a panel with an expandable collar. The panel's joints are rigid, but the collar is a traditional wood keyed stretcher attached with expansion bolt hardware to the panel, giving precise expansion and contraction of the perimeter. The panel and collar are kept in plane with a brass or aluminum spline.
This "museum bar" stretcher was made for conservation use. Each half of each corner is independently expandable using the precise hardware found in our standard expansion bolt stretchers.
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Some Museums and Art Conservators that use our Art Supports
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | San Francisco, California
Indianapolis Museum of Art | Indianapolis, Indiana
Museum of Natural History | New York, New York
James Bernstein, fine art conservation | San Francisco, California
Oregon Art Institute | Portland, Oregon
UC Berkeley Art Department | Berkeley, California
Stanford University Museum | Stanford, California
Art Care | Kailua, Hawaii
Fine Arts Associates | Chicago, Illinois
Dennis Calabi, fine art conservation | Sebastopol, California
Balboa Art Conservation Center | San Diego, California
Alex Harrison, fine art conservation | Vancouver, British Columbia
California Palace of the Legion of Honor | San Francisco, California
Rocky Mountain Conservation Center | Denver, Colorado
De Young Memorial Museum | San Francisco, California
The Science Museum of Minnesota | Minnesota
City of San Francisco | San Francisco, California
North Carolina Museum of Art | Raleigh, North Carolina
Chiara Carcano-Carl, fine art conservation | Seattle, Washington
Asian Art Museum | San Francisco, California |
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Gallery of Contemporary Artists who use our products.
Some Artists Using Our Stretcher Bars
(Or Artists For Whom Conservators Have Used Our Products)
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Rembrandt
Pablo Picasso
Bonnard
Monet
Leger
Giorgio DeChirico
Cezanne
Whistler
Siqueiros
Jean Dubuffet
Hanz Hoffman
Giacometti
Josef Albers
Clifford Stills
Elmer Bischoff
Wade Hoefer
George Sumner
Edward Munch
Nathan Olivera
Robert Motherwell
Raymond Saunders
Toulouse-Lautrec
Salvador Dali
Mondrian
Georges Braque
Nolde
Heather Wilcoxon
Stuart Davis
Jackson Pollock
Francis Bacon
Rauschenberg
Bernard Buffet
Diebenkorn
Thomas Hart Benton
Glenn Kannenson
Squeak Carnwath
Stanley Mouse
Richard Mclean
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Andy Warhol
Jay DeFeo
Gauguin
Van Gogh
Rousseau
Chagall
Marie Cassatt
David Gallegos
Shahn
Franz Kline
Millard Sheets
Jasper Johns
Miro
Christopher Brown
Walt Kohlman
Oliver Jackson
Appel
Vlaminck
David Hockney
Matisse
Kandinsky
Raoul Dufy
Kirchner
Sam Francis
Modigliani
Tanguy
Tamayo
Beckman
DeKooning
Rothko
Hanz Arp
Juan Gris
Bierstad
Rivera
Horst Trave
David Parks
Wiley
Paul Klee |
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