Ellen Davis is Associate Paintings Conservator at the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Study at the Harvard Art Museums. Previously she was a Fellow in Paintings Conservation at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. She earned her M.A., C.A.S. in Art Conservation from Buffalo State, S.U.N.Y. in 2015 and her M.A. from Wesleyan University in 2007. Ellen completed her third-year graduate internship at MoMA and additional graduate internships at the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Barnes Foundation, and the Judd Foundation in NYC. Ellen has a particular interest in the treatment of non-traditional modern and contemporary paintings, as well as the influence of prior conservation interventions on those treatments.