Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-11-11
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to place the WORK where suitable light

TO pla ace the WORK where suitable light
and effect are secured.
The arrangement Of public exhibit
tions is, Of course, somewhat different,
as there general effect has more to be
studied the balance of pictures with
regard TO their size and the manage
ment as TO masses Of color, while taking
care that formality OF line does not APP
pear. 1t is needless To say anything
about those single picture shows where,
for sone exceedingly false and worth
less reason. the work is focused under
artificial light, and with the aid Of dark
draperies around il is made 10 appear
almost as II ii was In mausoeum or
burial place. This idea is mere
modern invention. got up by picture
dealers with the notion that it enhances
the value of the picture. while as a mat
ter OF fact, il is subverslve OF all prlncl-
pies OF taste, II not indeed Of common
sense.
But these remarks have reference
more directly to the house Of the mid
die and upper classes, which are now,
with comparatively few exceptions,
adorned with pictures OF one kind or
another In the first place, ii may be
suggested that il is not desirable TO put
oil paintings In same room with engrav.
ings, or drawings in water colors, cray
ons, or other like materials. Its often
done, but is, as matter OF good taste,
rather a mistake. Azain, there should
be certain classification OF subject in
the pictures ornamenting the walls, as
inattentiOn To this is occasionally
ludicrous. a print OF Rubens' Descent
From the Cross" and, hanging 90
either side Of ii engravings Of Wilkes
"Vlllage Festival and Meissonlers
Cavalry Charge" nave been seen.
Surely nothing could be more absurd
than placing 10 immediate juxtaposi-
ton works In which the motives OF the
designs are so directly opposite as the
Illustrations Of death, a village revel
aud the fierce shock of battle. As a
general rule, it IL well to place pictures
OF certain order OF design together.
Some works can only be seen TO adyan-
tage In bright, and others 10 a more
subdusd light, while IL is equally Ger.
tain that many lose nothing II placed
above the line OF siRhi, and others
gain. rather than lose, il hung much
nearer the floor. No absolute rule car
| be laid down as TO the eXacl
distance at which . picture should
be Viewed, as that resolves itself
a good deal into the question OF the par
ticuiar power OF vision Of the spectator.
But what one would urge, and that en-.
phatically. is, give every possible op
portunIiy 70 see 80 artists work at IL;
! best How constantly one hears from
exhibitors at the Royal Academy AID
other leading galleries that their pic.
lures are so badly hung that they would
have preferred not having them there
tail: and those of Us who are ia the
habit Of visiting all the private collec
tions OF noblemen aud others have only
too much experience how the most val
liable paintings are robbed Of half their
Interest by injudicIous hanging.
When az artist By sale loses control
| OF his work. IL is 20 longer his posses.
sion; but il seems curious that thA new
owner (wbo In repeated instanc kViI
not have hesIt2ted to give thoqsI %
sterling for the production) s. D
| pear to be Indifferent to the
3 coveted addition to bis "
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