The University of Texas at Dallas
The Edith O'Donnell Institute of Art History

Cultural Heritage Initiatives

The O’Donnell Institute partners with area and international institutions to advance research and education through Cultural Heritage Initiatives.

Ashley E. Ellsworth, Jenny K. Hedlund, Lev D. Gelb, Amy V. Walker (Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Materials Science and Engineering University of Texas at Dallas), Characterization of Aniline Dyes in the Modern Colored Papers and the Prints of José Posada: A Collaboration with Conservators at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art

Together, art historians, scientists, curators, and conservators collaborate on research projects that focus on developing new techniques for conserving the legacy of physical artifacts (cultural property) and intangible attributes of a group or society inherited from the past.

Conservation Science

Our Conservation Science program was founded by Professor David McPhail, Distinguished Chair of Conservation Science at The O’Donnell Institute and Professor in the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, at The University of Texas at Dallas and Dr. Norman Tennent, Distinguished Visiting Research Scholar at UT Dallas and Professor Emeritus at the University of Amsterdam.

Glass degradation project

The framework for this research is a 3-year tripartite postdoctoral project instigated by the University of Texas at Dallas and jointly supported by the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and the Corning Museum of Glass.