About me
Arlen Heginbotham is currently Conservator of Decorative Arts and Sculpture at the J. Paul Getty Museum. He received his A.B. in East Asian Studies from Stanford University, his M.A. in Art Conservation from Buffalo State College, and his Ph.D. in Earth Sciences from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Arlen’s research interests include microscopic and chemical wood identification, the use of X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy as a tool for studying copper alloy artifacts and their patinas, X-radiographic dendrochronology, and the technical study of Asian export lacquer. He recently co-authored, with Gillian Wilson, the catalog French Rococo Ébénisterie in the J. Paul Getty Museum and is an editor and author for the forthcoming Guidelines for the Technical Examination of Bronze Sculpture from Getty Publications.
