MEYERS TO DIRECT MUSEUM’S CONSERVATION WORK

Pieter Meyers, senior research chemist at the County Museum of Art, has been appointed head of the museum’s state-of-the-art conservation department.

Effective June 1, Meyers will succeed William R. Leisher, who has accepted a new position as chief of the Art Institute of Chicago’s conservation program.

Meyers has been a museum conservator for 20 years, serving as senior research chemist in charge of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s research laboratory for 11 years before coming to Los Angeles.

A native of the Netherlands, Meyers received his doctoral degree in radiochemistry and nuclear physics in 1968 from the University of Amsterdam. He has worked as a research associate for government projects in Amsterdam and New York. He also has taught graduate courses in art conservation and archeological chemistry at the American University in Cairo, Columbia University and UCLA.

In his new post, Meyers will preside over one of the country’s largest and most up-to-date art conservation facilities, including departments of painting, textiles, objects, works on paper and research. The recently expanded center will be further enlarged when offices presently located on the lower level of the Hammer Wing are moved to the Robert O. Anderson Gallery, currently under construction.