Mary Broadway

Mary Broadway is associate conservator in the Department of Prints and Drawings. Since joining the Art Institute in 2014, she has studied and treated a range of works on paper from Old Master prints to Modern and Contemporary drawings. She has contributed technical research and observations to the museum’s Online Scholarly Catalogues featuring Gauguin and Manet as well as exhibition catalogs including John Singer Sargent and Chicago’s Gilded Age (2018) and Joseph E. Yoakum: What I Saw (2021, forthcoming). Mary is a professional associate of the American Institute for Conservation.

The Dueling Dualities of Remedios Varo

Discover the diverse techniques and seemingly incompatible fields of knowledge the artist used to create her endlessly enchanting paintings.

Lara Balikci, Mary Broadway, Alivé Piliado, Katrina Rush, and Caitlin Haskell
Caring for Two Woodcuts by Martin Puryear

The goal in conserving these works was not to hide the damage—the scars tell their own story.

Mary Broadway
Hidden Care: Four Stories of Patience and Repair

The conservation of works of art happens behind the scenes and at its best is something you don’t even notice.

Mary Broadway, Julie Simek, Pamela Olson, Isaac Facio, Elizabeth Pope, and Paul Jones

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