Publications

Cnossen, Kris, Annika Blake-Howland, and Amanda Holden. "The Role of a Significance Assessment in the Replacement of Plastic on a Stephen Sprouse Dress." In Considering Costume: The Conservation, Apparel, Adornment, and Accessories, edited by Joel Stephenson, Howard Sutcliffe, and Elizabeth Shaeffer, 98-116. Williamsburg, Virginia: NATCC, 2023.  

Freese, Emily, Amanda Holden, and Erinn Bessler. “Strike a Pose: The Overhaul of Fiberglass Mannequins and Their Mounts.” In Considering Costume: The Conservation, Apparel, Adornment, and Accessories, edited by Joel Stephenson, Howard Sutcliffe, and Elizabeth Shaeffer, 258-268. Williamsburg, Virginia: NATCC (2023).  

Murray, A., K. Biggs, A. Shugar, R. Ploeger, E. Uffelman, M. Stols-Witlox, P. Gonzales, G. Smith, M. Loubser, L. F. Fuster López, G. Di Pietro, A. Sah, A. Nevin, A. Sardarli, S. Wei, and E. Casanova-González. "Heritage Science Education – The Online Resource Conservation Science Education Online (CSEO) and Themes from the Inaugural Conference." Chemistry Teacher International 5, No. 3 (2023): 331-345. https://doi.org/10.1515/cti-2023-0013 [OPEN ACCESS] 

Samide, M. J., and G. D. Smith. "A Methodology to Assess Pollution Off-gassing of Museum Construction Materials Using a Pyrolysis Microfurnace." Heritage 6, no. 3 (2023): 2292-2307. https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage6030121 [OPEN ACCESS] 

Schmidtke Sobeck, S., and G. D. Smith. "Shedding Light on Daylight Fluorescent Artists’ Pigments, Part 2: Spectral Properties and Light Stability." Journal of the American Institute for Conservation 62, No. 3 (2023): 222-238. https://doi.org/10.1080/01971360.2022.2031460 

Villalta-Cerdas, Adrian, Gregory D. Smith, Megan Carrison DeSmit, and John V. Goodpaster. 2023. "Room Temperature Evaporation Behavior of Homogeneous Azeotropes Used in Art Conservation Cleaning Treatments" Applied Sciences 13, no. 21 (2023): 11962. https://doi.org/10.3390/app132111962 [OPEN ACCESS]  

Smith, G. D., V. J. Chen, A. Holden, N. Haghipour, and L. Hendriks. "Combined, Sequential Dye Analysis and Radiocarbon Dating of Single Ancient Textile Yarns from a Nazca Tunic." Heritage Science 10, No. 1 (2022): 179. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40494-022-00811-5 [OPEN ACCESS] 

Roxane Sperber & Aviva Burnstock. “A History of the Department of Conservation and Technology at the Courtauld Institute of Art.” Studies in Conservation, 68,1 (2021): 102-127, DOI: 10.1080/00393630.2021.1966184 

Beckett, Fiona, Amanda Holden, and Gregory Dale Smith. “Seeing the light: Research, conservation and exhibition of a 1980s daylight fluorescent painted leather jacket designed by Sprouse and painted by Castronovo.” Journal of the American Institute for Conservation, 58:4 (2019): 233-247, DOI: 10.1080/01971360.2019.1614290 

Holden, Amanda, Gregory D. Smith, Mark F. Vitha, and Victor J. Chen. "Everything Old is New Again: Science Unravels a Fake Moroccan Embroidery." In Lessons Learned: Textile Conservation – Then and Now, edited by Howard Sutcliffe and Joel Thompson, 253-267. New York: NATCC, 2019. 

Smith, Gregory Dale, Victor J. Chen, Amanda Holden, and Shannon G. Lieb. "Analytical Characterization of 5,5’-dibromoindigo and its First Discovery in a Museum Textile." Heritage Science 7, 62 (2019): 179. DOI: 10.1186/s40494-019-0305-7 

Holden, Amanda. "Weaving Wonder: The Science of Fabric." PATTERN 13 (Spring/Summer 2018): 105-109. 
Sperber, Roxane. "Deciphering Intention from Aging: The Use of Archival Material in the Study and Treatment of Winifred Dysart by George Fuller." In AIC Paintings Specialty Postprints (2017). 

Sperber, Roxane. "The Retouching Practices of John Linnell: Technique, Patronage, and Practice from Two Works in the Yale Center for British Art." In A Changing Art: Nineteenth-Century Painting Practice and Conservation, edited by Nicola Costaras, 116-122. London: Archetype, 2017. 

Sperber, Roxane, and Anna Koopstra. "A Saint Jerome after Palma il Giovane: Artistic Invention and the Practice of Painting on Copper in the Age of Printmaking." In Paintings on Copper and Other Metal Plates: Production, Degradation, and Conservation Issues, edited by Laura Fuster López et al., 103-109. Valencia: Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, 2017. 

Chen, Victor J., Gregory D. Smith, Amanda Holden, Niloo Paydar, and Kathleen Kiefer. "Chemical Analysis of Dyes on an Uzbek Ceremonial Coat: Objective Evidence for Artifact Dating and the Chemistry of Early Synthetic Dyes." Dyes and Pigments 131: 320-332 (2016). DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dyepig.2016.04.019  

Sperber, Roxane. "A Technical and Historical Investigation of John Linnell’s Retouching Practice and Its Impact on Conservation Treatment Decisions." The Picture Restorer 48 (2016): 39-42. 

Sperber, Roxane and Jens Stenger, "Canaletto's Colour: the inspiration and implications of changing grounds, pigments and paint application in the artist's English period," British Art Studies, Issue 2 (2016) https://doi.org/10.17658/issn.2058-5462/issue-02/rsperber-jstenger  

Holden, Amanda, Fiona Beckett, and Gregory Dale Smith. "Seeing the Light: Conservation and Exhibition of a 1980s Daylight Fluorescent Painted Leather Jacket." Textile Specialty Group Postprints 25 (2015): 95-110. 

Stites Alig, Dorothy, Julie Randolph, and Amanda Holden. "Texture/Color/Surface/Hand: Developments in loss compensation for textiles." AIC News Vol. 28, No. 3 (May 2003): 1, 3-4. https://www.culturalheritage.org/docs/default-source/publications/periodicals/newsletter/03_may_aicnews.pdf?sfvrsn=c436f2a_13