"'Splendid Mountain,' A Sketchbook by the Young John Singer Sargent"
Marjorie Shelley
Marjorie Shelley (MA art history, Institute of Fine Arts; Certificate, degree, Conservation Center, NYU) started at the Met in 1974 and served as Sherman Fairchild Conservator in Charge of Paper Conservation from 1997-2022 before focusing on research as Senior Conservator from 2022-2025. She is a specialist in 15th through early 20th century drawings and pastels, she has written numerous publications on drawing materials and artists’ practices; among them, Rembrandt, Fragonard, Wright of Darby, Audubon, Delacroix, Degas, Van Gogh, Cezanne and Sargent. She is editor and chief author of The Met’s preservation manual, The Care and Handling of Art Objects; instituted an annual technical art history symposium on works on paper; and established a collection of historic artists’ materials.
MetPublications: Selected publications by Marjorie Shelley
The Care and Handling of Art Objects: Practices in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2019 revised edition). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019.
“Delacroix drawings: Line and Color.” In A Devotion to Drawing, the Karen B. Cohen collection, edited by Ashely E. Dunn, 137–150. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018.
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