Brookfield Arts Foundation

Brookfield Arts Foundation (the "Foundation") was founded in 2000 to establish, maintain and operate an educational organization for the purpose of improving popular and scholarly understanding of art and the decorative Arts. The Foundation seeks to promote research into techniques of manufacture, construction, original use and ownership patterns of these objects, into the scientific analysis of materials and of original techniques; to provide care and conserve objects owned by the Foundation; with the intent of making the results of research on such objects available both to the general public and to the scholarly community; to publicly exhibit such objects owned by the Foundation (the "collection") often in collaboration with public exhibits of similar objects owned by others; and to make grants and loans of such objects to other organizations which are exempt from federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code of 1986, as amended (the "code").

During 2022, the Foundation had on loan 629 objects from the Foundation's collection to the following major museums for display to the public: museum of fine Arts, boston (Massachusetts), peabody essex museum (Massachusetts), historic new england (Massachusetts and new hampshire), clark art institute (Massachusetts), art institute of chicago (Illinois), museum of early southern decorative Arts (north carolina), yale university art gallery (Connecticut), cape ann museum (Massachusetts), hidcote, national trust uk (england), and the national museum of bermuda (bermuda). The Foundation has on loan an historic house complete with its furnishings, which number 626 objects in total. In 2022, one object from the collection was included in a new publication. During 2022, the Foundation hosted two visits allowing scholars to examine in detail 185 objects from the collection while five additional objects were considered for exhibition by another scholar.

The Foundation (a) cares for and conserves objects from its collection and (b) seeks to promote research into (i) techniques of manufacture, construction and the like and (ii) scientific analysis of materials and original techniques. In 2022, four objects from the collection underwent conservation treatment. This treatment included stabilizing fragile objects as well as extensive treatments on objects with more complex condition issues, with the goal of future public display in mind.work on the historic house included upgrading the interior fish pools, continued paper conservation in the interior, replacement of replica light-damaged surrogate posters, annual carpentry repairs, and deep cleaning. A full envelope assessment of the structure was begun including masonry probes, paving stone resetting and roof tile procurement in preparation for work in the next two years. 293 textiles related to the house were properly rehoused.