Bart J.C. Devolder

Chief Conservator at Princeton University Art Museum

New York City Metropolitan Area

About

PUBLICATIONS (SELECTION): •2023: EXHIBITION REVIEW: Modigliani Up Close; B. Devolder in Burlington Magazine (Volume 165; No.1438) January 2023. •2021: The Conservation-Restoration of the Interior Lower Register of the Ghent Altarpiece; H. Dubois, K. Froyen, F. Rosier, G. Steyaert, et al. in The Ghent Altarpiece Research and Conservation Of the Interior: the Lower Register, Brussels 2021: 9-32. •2020: Assisting Classical Paintings Restoration: efficient paint loss detection and descriptor-based inpainting using shared pretraining; Meeus, Huang, Zizakic, Xie, Devolder, Dubois, Martens, and Pizurica in Proceedings of SPIE: Optics, Photonics and Digital Technologies for Imaging Applications VI (Volume 11353). •2020: Multimodal Target Detection by Sparse Coding: Application to Paint Loss Detection in Paintings; Huang, Cornelis, Devolder, Martens, and Pizurica in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. •2020: Window of Opportunity: Restoring in the Public Eye; B. Devolder in The Ghent Altarpiece Research and Conservation Of the Exterior, Brussels 2020. •2020: The Conservation-Restoration Treatment; L. Depuydt, F. Rosier, B. Devolder & N. Laquiere in The Ghent Altarpiece Research and Conservation Of the Exterior, Brussels 2020. •2016: Spectaculaire ontdekkingen op het Lam Gods van de gebroeders van Eyck. De essentiële rol van de restaurateur, in M. Buyle (ed.) Innovatie in de conservatie-restauratie. Postprints van de internationale BRK-APROA/ Onroerend Erfgoed studiedagen 8. Brussel 2016: 153-171 (Authors: B. Devolder, M. Postec, H. Dubois, et al.) •2016: Shaun Greenhalgh; A Forger`s Tale, in THE JOURNAL OF ART CRIME: Spring 2016 (Volume 15): 101-102. •2015: Digital image processing of the Ghent altarpiece: supporting the painting's study and conservation treatment, in IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING MAGAZINE 32(4). p.112-122 (Authors: A. Pizurica, L.Platisa, T.Ruzic, B. Cornelis, A. Dooms, M. Martens, H. Dubois, B. Devolder, M. De Mey and I.Daubechies). •2011: Surface & Format: Observations on the Materials, Process and Condition of Cubist Paintings, 1910-1912; B.Devolder & C.Barry in Picasso and Braque; The Cubist Experiment, 1910-1912. Exh. Cat, New Haven: Yale University [Charles Dibble (ed.)] 2011:105-127. •2009: The Representation of Brocaded Silks and Velvets in 15th and Early 16th Century Netherlandish Paintings: Methods and Materials; B. Devolder, in H. Parkin (ed.) AIC Paintings Specialty Group Postprints. Papers Presented at the 36th Annual Meeting of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic & Artistic Works Denver, CO. 2009: 61-74.

Experience

  • Princeton University Art Museum (8 yrs 1 mo)
    • Chief Conservator
      Sep 2020 - Present · 5 yrs 11 mos

    • Conservator of the collections
      Jul 2018 - Sep 2020 · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • On-Site Coordinator / Painting Conservator for the Restoration of the Ghent Altarpiece at KIK-IRPA
    Aug 2012 - Jul 2018 · 6 yrs

  • Kimbell Art Museum (4 yrs 8 mos)
    • Associate Conservator of Paintings
      Dec 2010 - Jul 2012 · 1 yr 8 mos

    • Assistant Conservator of Paintings
      Dec 2007 - Dec 2010 · 3 yrs 1 mo

  • Program Chair at American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works; Paintings Specialty Group
    Jun 2009 - Jun 2010 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Responsible for the selection of papers to be presented at the 2010 American Institute for Conservation Annual Meeting in Milwaukee.

  • Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Painting Conservation at National Gallery of Art
    Nov 2005 - Nov 2007 · 2 yrs 1 mo