Obituaries

Jilleen on holiday in the south of France, summer 2023. Image by Leslie Carlyle
Obituary: Jilleen Nadolny

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Jilleen’s unusually broad knowledge of materiality and practice is best characterised by the term ‘technical art historian’, and in recent years this...
IIC Council, 1990s: Back Row: David Bomford, Andrew Oddy, Rafaeella Rossi-Manaresi, Colin Pearson, Jane McAusland, Liliane Masschelein-Kleiner, David Drown, David Leigh, Prof Teddy Hall; Front row, seated: Stephen G Rees-Jones (Treasurer), Henry W M Hodges (Secretary- General, Agnes Grafin Ballestrem (President), Perry Smith (Executive Secretary). Image courtesy of David Leigh and the IIC.
Obituary: Stephen G Rees-Jones (1941-2024)

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Stephen G Rees-Jones died peacefully at home on 14th January 2024. He was born in 1941and studied archaeological conservation at the Institute of...
Andrew Durham. Image courtesy of Artlab
Obituary: Andrew Durham FIIC

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Andrew Durham, Director of Artlab Australia in Adelaide has died after a short illness on 28 December 2023.
Obituary: Richard Lithgow FIIC ACR

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We are very sorry to announce the sudden and unexpected death of Richard Lithgow on Monday 9 October 2023.
Image of Charles Olin (courtesy of son, David Olin).
Obituary: Charles H. Olin (1933-2023)

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It is with immense appreciation for a life well lived, that we inform of the passing of Charles Hilden Olin on March 28, 2023.
Image of Tim Green, courtesy of Tate, London
Obituary: Tim Green

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On 20 April 2022, Tim Green died at the age of 68. He will be greatly missed by his wife, Hazel, and his son and daughter, Joe and Nicky, as well as...
Eleanor McMillan and Andrew Oddy at IIC Bilbao Congress, 2004. Image courtesy of David Leigh.
Obituary: Remembering Eleanor McMillan

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Among Eleanor McMillan's philanthropic activities was the donation of her iconic powder-blue 1965 Ford Mustang to the Smithsonian Institution...
Bob Brill featured with Herat (Afghanistan) glass (1979). Image courtesy of The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY.
Obituary: Robert H. Brill

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Through decades of international interaction, Bob served as mentor to innumerable conservation interns, conservators, conservation scientists, glass...