Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from September, 2011

Fine Art at Poster Mountain

While Poster Mountain is known as the place to go for poster conservation and restoration, our expertise and experience is not limited to just posters. We love working on a range of paper based art pieces. So much so that we have started a subsidiary company called Los Angeles Paper Group to cater to a wider range of fine art projects. Many of the fine art pieces that we receive have limitations that we must work within that are not typical of the usual poster projects. The aim of this blog is to chronicle the exploits and some of the more unusual projects that we work on. One such example is a silkscreen entitled "Monica in Robe, with Motherwell" by Tom Wesselman. "Monica in Robe, with Motherwell" is quite a mouthful and so this piece has affectionately become known simply as Monica in the studio. It is a large format silk screen about 3 1/2' by 5' that was damaged during shipping. It was rolled and had been crushed which caused creases and distortion i

Welcome to Poster Mountain!

Poster Mountain is an art restoration and conservation company with a focus on posters and works on paper. We are based in Los Angeles and have been open since 1996.  We love when our clients are able to visit the studio, to see their pieces in progress and meet our team of artists, but we do have plenty of clients in other parts of the world who never get the chance to come here. So we thought we'd start this blog with an introduction. John A. Davis is the owner of Poster Mountain. He has worked in paper conservation and restoration since 1990. He loves working on large format pieces. John enjoys the challenge and learning process that unusual pieces of art present. Poster Mountain is John's brain child. He sees its evolution and progress as his personal artistic experience. He collects posters and talented people.   Robin Davis has been at Poster Mountain since 2005. The mounting department is her domain. Robin is also in charge of making sure all the flighty artisti