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The John Annesley Company has products that are used by art conservators worldwide. Products popular with art restorers include:
Expansion bolt stretcher bars - Also called "museum bars", our expansion bolt stretchers can be ordered to exact size in any fraction of inches or centimeters. Plus they can be customized even further (see pictures below).
Brace with Expansion Bolts - This brace is used to push apart and expand stretcher bars very carefully. It's designed as a retrofit brace. When you have a brace that's not expandable, this John Annesley brace can replace it and voila you have an expandable brace. It also can be used for those situations where you need a brace for added support. Each end is expandable so you can push in two directions at once. Every pound of pressure you put on the rod translates into 500 lbs of pressure at the joint. It really pushes hard with the force of an incline plane--in this case a screw. We can make this brace for you as short as a foot to just about any length you need.
Regular Stretcher Bars - At just 3/4" it's our thinnest profile available while the basswood still maintains some integrity and strength. All braces are mortised and tenon, it's a wood keyed system. The product was designed especially for re-stretching artwork where the barest minimum of fabric on the sides is available.
Unprimed linen fabric- We have linen fabric up to 120" wide, and can provide small to huge pieces.
Polyester fabric- Used for re-lining paintings, conservators glue an old, delicate canvas onto to a pre-stretched piece of polyester. Then they don't have to worry about buckling or crinkling the paint. The polyester fabric creates a moisture proof buffer between the stretchers and the wall that will last forever.
Canvas Pliers- When re-stretching delicate art our canvas pliers make the job so much easier.
Customized Turnbuckles- These allow conservators to make careful adjustments of wood-keyed stretcher bars.
Some Artists Using Our Stretcher Bars
(Or Artists For Whom Conservators Have Used Our Products)
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Rembrandt van Rijn
Pablo Picasso
Pierre Bonnard
Claude Monet
Fernand Leger
Giorgio de Chirico
Paul Cézanne
David Alfaro Siqueiros
Jean Dubuffet
Hans Hofmann
Alberto Giacometti
Josef Albers
Clifford Stills
Elmer Bischoff
Wade Hoefer
George Sumner
Edvard Munch
Nathan Oliveira
Robert Motherwell
Raymond Saunders
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Salvador Dali
Piet Mondrian
Georges Braque
Emil Nolde
Heather Wilcoxon
Stuart Davis
Jackson Pollock
Francis Bacon
Robert Rauschenberg
Bernard Buffet
Richard Diebenkorn
Thomas Hart Benton
Glenn Kannenson
Squeak Carnwath
Stanley Mouse
Richard McLean
Whistler
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Andy Warhol
Jay DeFeo
Paul Gauguin
Vincent van Gogh
Henri Rousseau
Marc Chagall
Mary Cassatt
David Gallegos
Ben Shahn
Franz Kline
Millard Sheets
Jasper Johns
Joan Miró
Christopher Brown
Walt Kohlman
Oliver Jackson
Karel Appel
Maurice de Vlaminck
David Hockney
Henri Matisse
Wassily Kandinsky
Raoul Dufy
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Sam Francis
Amedeo Modigliani
Yves Tanguy
Rufino Tamayo
Willem de Kooning
Rothko
Hans Arp
Juan Gris
Albert Bierstadt
Diego Rivera
Horst Trave
David Parks
Kehinde Wiley
Paul Klee |
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Products Used by Art Conservators Worldwide
 
Services for Conservators
We purposefully create oblique and unusual expansion bolt stretcher bars to meet the needs of art conservators. In the picture, notice how far 'out of square' this traditional wood-key stretcher is. Conservators supply us with a template (mylar tracing) of existing bars and we make new basswood stretchers that conform to the original contours of older paintings, even severe parallelograms or uneven shapes.
This is a back view of a panel with an expandable collar. The panel's joints are rigid, but the collar is a traditional wood keyed stretcher attached with expansion bolt hardware to the panel, giving precise expansion and contraction of the perimeter. The panel and collar are kept in plane with a brass or aluminum spline.
This "museum bar" stretcher was made for conservation use. Each half of each corner is independently expandable using the precise hardware found in our standard expansion bolt stretchers.
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Some Museums and Art Conservators that use our Art Supports
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | San Francisco, California
Indianapolis Museum of Art | Indianapolis, Indiana
Museum of Natural History | New York, New York
James Bernstein, fine art conservation | San Francisco, California
Oregon Art Institute | Portland, Oregon
UC Berkeley Art Department | Berkeley, California
Stanford University Museum | Stanford, California
Art Care | Kailua, Hawaii
Fine Arts Associates | Chicago, Illinois
Dennis Calabi, fine art conservation | Sebastopol, California
Balboa Art Conservation Center | San Diego, California
Alex Harrison, fine art conservation | Vancouver, British Columbia
California Palace of the Legion of Honor | San Francisco, California
Rocky Mountain Conservation Center | Denver, Colorado
De Young Memorial Museum | San Francisco, California
The Science Museum of Minnesota | Minnesota
City of San Francisco | San Francisco, California
North Carolina Museum of Art | Raleigh, North Carolina
Chiara Carcano-Carl, fine art conservation | Seattle, Washington
Asian Art Museum | San Francisco, California |
Visit our
Gallery of Contemporary Artists
who use our products.
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