South Dakota State University (South Dakota Art Museum)

The South Dakota Art Museum will engage professional conservators from the Midwest Art Conservation Center to treat nine important works on paper and paintings by Ada B. Caldwell (1869-1938). Currently, all nine works are extremely fragile and susceptible to damage from any handling. Most of the works have not been seen by the public since 1940 when a posthumous retrospective was displayed on the campus of South Dakota Agricultural College. The treatment will stabilize the works to ensure long-term preservation and to improve accessibility for exhibition, study, or research.