About Judith Watkins Tartt

JUDITH WATKINS TARTT PAINTING CONSERVATOR AIC PA FOUNDER AND CEO OF ART-CARE

Judith Watkins Tartt has been a private conservator of paintings practicing in Washington, DC since 1975. After receiving a BA in Art History at The George Washington University Ms. Tartt began a seven-year work/study apprentice program with H. Stewart Treviranus. Mr. Treviranus painting conservator, AIC Fellow, IIC Fellow received his training from Sheldon Keck NYU and in Washington DC under Russell Quant at the Corcoron Gallery of Art.

Ms. Tartt has been awarded contracts from The GSA, US Department of State Art and Embassy Program and the US Treasury. She was contract conservator for the Hong Kong Museum in 1984- l985 and again in 1992 -1993 she was Contract Conservator in Asia for Sotheby’s l992- l995. In 2004 Judith Watkins Tartt was one of two painting conservators to be awarded the contract to restore the Turkish Embassy, Washington, DC. She has been the Painting Conservator for the Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC since l980. She has collaborated on projects with several Washington D.C. conservators.

Ms. Tartt is the Director and Founder of ART-CARE.

MAJOR COLLETIONS AND CLIENTS Present- l975

National Sporting Library 19th century Sporting Paintings Middleburg, Virginia

The Kreeger Museum Conservator in charge of Paintings Washington, D.C.

The George Washington University Permanent Collection Contract Conservator

American University, Washington, DC Watkins Gallery and Katzen Art Center Conservator of Paintings

Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York Conservator of Paintings Washington Color School

U.S. House of Representatives Seth Eastman Painting Collection Contract Conservator

Live Oak Farm, Ocala, Florida 19th English Sporting Paintings Conservator of Paintings

Mandarin Hotel, Hong Kong, China Mural Conservation 1992 June - September

U.S. Department of State Art in Embassy Program Contract Conservator

U.S. Department of Treasury Permanent Collection Contract Conservator

General Services Administration Art-in-Architecture Program Contract Conservator

National Air and Space Museum Permanent Collection Contract Conservator

ARTISTS TREATED Allasandro Allori, Gilbert Stuart, Rembrandt Peale, John Wollaston, George Chinnery, Auguste Borget, John Wootton, James Seymour, George Stubbs, Ben Marshall, J.F. Herring, J.N. Sartorius, Sir Alvin Fisher, Sir Alfred Munning, John Emms, Josef Albers, Max Beckman, George Braque, Paul cezanne, Charles Daubigny, Gene Davis, Narcisse Diaz, Thomas Downing, James Ensor, Vincent Van Gogh, Charles Hinsman, Joan Miro,Claude Monet, Aldolphe Monticelli, Edvard Munch, David ParKs, Pablo Picasso, Man Ray, James Rosenquist, Nicholas de Stael, Yves Tanguy, Felix Ziem

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS American Institute of Conservation (AIC) (PA) Washington Conservation Guild Arttable

As a painting conservator in private practice, I assess the condition, determine and perform correct treatment based on methods and techniques approved by our national association, The American Institute for Conservation of Historical and Artistic Artifacts (AIC). I have been in private practice for 35 years.