Work in the Forbidden City Highlighted on UDaily

Susan L. Buck is a conservator in private practice specializing in the analysis and conservation of painted surfaces on wooden objects and architectural materials. Her dissertation study of the architectural paints at the Aiken-Rhett House in Charleston, SC was awarded the University of Delaware Wilbur Owen Sypherd Prize for the outstanding doctoral dissertation in the Humanities in 2003. After completing her MS from the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation, she worked for seven years at the SPNEA Conservation Center as a furniture conservator and microscopist before entering the University of Delaware Ph.D. Program in Art Conservation Research. She has taught cross-section microscopy analysis and alternative cleaning system methods in the WUDPAC program for six years and supervised graduate interns since 1995.

Susan has recently been working at the Emperor’s Studio of Exhaustion from Diligent Service in Beijing and this exciting project was highlighted in an UDaily article. To read more about the project click here.