Art Conservation Project

Preserving cultural treasures

Art and objects of cultural heritage are highly vulnerable to the effects of time. Conserving these works helps ensure that society can continue to be inspired by the richness of the human experience.

Launched in 2010, the Bank of America Art Conservation Project™ has funded hundreds of projects across the globe. However, geography is only part of the story. While the projects represent a wide range of art movements, media, time periods and cultures, they all reflect the creativity, ingenuity and passion of the people who created them.

View selections from the 2026 Bank of America Art Conservation Project.

Information on the 2027 application process can be found here.

For general inquiries or information, please contact us.

Diego Rivera’s Man, Controller of the Universe mural under conservation
Diego Rivera (Mexican, 1886–1957)
El hombre controlador del universo (Man, Controller of the Universe), 1934
Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, INBA
© 2025 Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
National Museum of African American History and Culture

Explore more: Partner Institution

National Museum of African American History and Culture

NMAAHC is the nineteenth Smithsonian Institution museum. Bank of America is a founding member and dedicated supporter.

 

Architectural photo by Alan Karchmer.

Featured Bank of America Art Conservation Project selections

The Winged Victory of Samothrace

2010-11 selection

Musée du Louvre, Paris


The Winged Victory of Samothrace

Image details
Anvar-I Suhayli

2012 selection

Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS) Museum, Mumbai


Mughal Emperor Akbar’s Court (1542 – 1605)

Anvar-I Suhayli, c. 1575

Image details
Lovers

2012 selection

Tel Aviv Museum of Art


Marc Chagall (French, b. Belarus, 1887–1985)

Lovers, 1929

Image details
Diana

2013 selection

Philadelphia Museum of Art


Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American, b. Ireland, 1848 – 1907)

Diana, 1892/94

Image details
Magna Carta

2014 selection

Society of Antiquaries of London


Magna Carta, 1215

Image details
Towering Peaks Wrapped in Mists

2014 selection

Art Museum of the Chinese University of Hong Kong


Lui Shou-kwan (Chinese, 1919- 1975)

Towering Peaks Wrapped in Mists, 1968

Image details
Woman in Striped Dress

2015 selection

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York


Édouard Manet (French, 1832 – 1883)

Woman in Striped Dress, 1877 – 1880

Image details
Untitled artwork

2016 selection

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago


László Moholy-Nagy (American, b. Hungary, 1895 – 1946)

Untitled, 1946

Image details
Mujer en azul (Woman in Blue)

2010-11 selection

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid


Pablo Ruiz Picasso (Spanish, 1881 –1973)

Mujer en azul (Woman in Blue), 1901

Image details
Sea Change

2012 selection

Seattle Art Museum


Jackson Pollock (American, 1912 –1956)

Sea Change, 1947

Image details
Napoleone come Marte Pacificatore (Napoléon as Mars the Peacemaker)

2013 selection

Associazione Amici di Brera e dei Musei Milanesi, Milan


Antonio Canova (Italian, 1757 - 1822)

Napoleone come Marte Pacificatore (Napoléon as Mars the Peacemaker), 1809 – 1811

Image details
La Piscine (The Swimming Pool)

2014 selection

The Museum of Modern Art, New York


Henri Matisse (French, 1869 –1954)

La Piscine (The Swimming Pool), late summer 1952

Image details
Old Man

2014 selection

National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, D.C.


John Biggers (American, 1924 – 2001)

Old Man, 1946

Image details
Procissão (Procession)

2015 selection

OCA Museum, São Paulo


Tarsila do Amaral (Brazilian, 1886 – 1973)

Procissão (Procession), 1954

Image details
Jo-no-Mai (Dance Performed in a Noh Play)

2015 selection

The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts


Uemura Shōen (Japanese, 1875 – 1949)

Jo-no-Mai (Dance Performed in a Noh Play), 1936

Image details
Eagle-Headed Genie

2017 selection

Brooklyn Museum, New York


Eagle-Headed Genie, c. 883 – 859 BCE

Image details
The Marriage of Strongbow and Aoife

2010-11 selection

National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin


Daniel Maclise (Irish, 1806 – 1870)

The Marriage of Strongbow and Aoife, 1854

Image details
Beaded apron

2010-11 selection

Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg


Ndebele Tribe (South African)

Isiphephetu (beaded apron), c. 1950s –1980s

Image details
Urartian Bracelets

2012 selection

Rezan Has Museum, Istanbul


Urartian Bracelets, ninth – seventh century BCE

Image details
The Painter’s Studio: A Real Allegory Summing Up Seven Years of my Artistic and Moral Life

2013 selection

Musée d’Orsay, Paris


Gustave Courbet (French, 1819 – 1877)

L’Atelier du peintre: Allégorie réelle déterminant une phase de sept années de ma vie artistique et morale (The Painter’s Studio: A Real Allegory Summing Up Seven Years of my Artistic and Moral Life), 1854/55

Image details
El hombre controlador del universo (Man, Controller of the Universe)

2014 selection

Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City


Diego Rivera (Mexican, 1886 – 1957)

El hombre controlador del universo (Man, Controller of the Universe), 1934

Image details
George Washington (Lansdowne portrait)

2014 selection

National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.


Gilbert Stuart (American, 1755 – 1828)

George Washington (Lansdowne portrait), 1796

Image details
Enclosed Field with Ploughman

2015 selection

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston


Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853 – 1890)

Enclosed Field with Ploughman, 1889

Image details
The Blue Boy

2016 selection

The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California


Thomas Gainsborough (British, 1727 – 1788)

The Blue Boy, 1770

Image details