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Kathleen Gilje
American artist
Kathleen Gilje (born 1945) is an American art restorer and artist.
Kathleen gilje biography
She is best known for her appropriations of Old Master Paintings which combine their historical provenance with contemporary ideas and perspective.
Early life and education
Gilje was born in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.
She received her BFA from the City College of New York and trained as a conservator from 1967 to 1971 at the Museo di Capodimonte in Naples, Italy. Gilje apprenticed in Rome with the restorer of antique paintings, Antonio de Mata, from 1966 to 1968.
Gilje continued her apprenticeship from 1968 to 1972 at the Museo di Capodimonte in Naples.
Career
Restoration
In 1973, she returned to New York and worked in the conservation studio of Marco Grassi,[1] where she restored Old Master paintings[2] for private and museum clients, including Stanley Moss, E.V.
Thaw, Robert Dance, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Norton Simon Collection