John R. Cavaliere
963 State Street
New Haven, CT 06511
(203) 498-1223
1992-Present
Own and operate Lyric-Hall Antiques, a private conservation practice specializing in gold leaf picture frames. recent and current projects include:

• Treatment of furniture in the collection at the Cushing Whitney Medical Library, Yale University.
• Conservation of decorative finish to monumental health, Berzelius Hall, Senior Society, Yale University. (2004)
• Treatment of period lighting in the ballroom designed by Douglas Orr, New Haven Lawn Club. (2003)
• Gold leaf of the WWII Memorial Wall, Scroll and Key Society, Yale University. (2003)                   
• Gold leaf hand-carved limestone text in the reliquary room, the Knights of Columbus Museum (2000).

1991-1992

• Assistant Librarian, The Young Men's Institute Library, a subscription library, New Haven, CT.

1989-1991

• Metropolitan Museum of Art, Security Department European Painting.         
• Study/Apprenticeship with Mark DeVito, furniture conservator, Stamford, CT, 1992-1994.
• BA, Fine Art, Connecticut College, New London, CT, 1987.
• Educational Center for the Arts, part-time high school for accelerated art students.

                              
Activities:                  Board Member The Society of Gilders
 Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences
 Connecticut Association of Dealers in Antiques
 Friends of American Art at Yale.