NEW YORK, NY.- Eli Wilner & Company has announced that all funding allocated through its museum grant program for October 2026 has been fully committed in support of reframing and frame restoration projects at museums and cultural institutions nationwide. In response to continued demand, Eli Wilner & Company funding partners have committed an additional $125,000 for the November 2026 funding cycle. These funds will be awarded on a first-come, first-served basis through November 30, 2026, or until fully committed.

The grants are intended to offset a portion of the cost of qualifying frame restoration and reframing projects. Recipient institutions are required to participate in the cost of the project, while grant funding covers the remaining approved portion. This shared-cost approach enables museums to undertake important projects that might otherwise be postponed due to budget limitations.

New applications are currently being accepted via email at [email protected] or by phone at 212-744-6521.

Eli Wilner & Company reframed William Merritt Chase's A Comfortable Corner (At Her Ease; The Blue Kimono), circa 1888, an oil on canvas measuring approximately 57 × 44½ inches, in the collection of the Parrish Art Museum. The painting was the recipient of a 2024 Bank of America Art Conservation Project grant. The newly conserved and framed painting will be featured in the Parrish Art Museum's upcoming exhibition, William Merritt Chase and Walter Granville-Smith: American Impressionists of the East End, on view November 14, 2026, through March 21, 2027.

Since the inception of the Eli Wilner Frame Funding Program, grants have supported projects at a broad range of institutions, including the Akron Art Museum, Birmingham Museum of Art, Chazen Museum of Art, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cleveland Museum of Art, Drayton Hall Preservation Trust, Fenimore Art Museum, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Joslyn Art Museum, Krannert Art Museum, Memorial Art Gallery, Milwaukee Art Museum, Morris Museum, Museum of the City of New York, Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, New Britain Museum of American Art, the New-York Historical Society, Parrish Art Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, RISD Museum, The Ringling, San Antonio Museum of Art, Seattle Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Toledo Museum of Art, University of Arizona Museum of Art, Washington and Lee University, Wellin Museum of Art, and The White House.

“The frame is the soul of the painting.”

–Thomas Cole