Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-07-30

OLCo.
Don't believe cheap cOlored print
is more artistic than an etching or
something good in black and white.
Don't hang heavy Dutch pictures be-
side light Frenchy subjects.
Don't hang family portraits in the
parlors.
Don't think because people eat fish
and game in dining-room they always
want to see pictures of dead sea fruit"
animals and birds hanging around
them.
Don't insist on having blue plush
mats around heads of the old masters
or historical pictures.
Don't put Marie Antoinette styles Of
pictures and frames in old English
drawing-ro rooms
Don't select more than dozen styles
of frames for a single room.
Don't hang your pictures all in row
because you happened to see them so
arranged at an exhibition.
Don't hang them. either, in fixed
geOmetric groups or set designs.
'ln fact" said dealer to a Chicago
Tribune reporter the other day, there
is string Of donts too long to enumer-
ate. Above all, 1t is in the selection
and hanging of pictures that the true
soul. the individuality, comes out"
He went on to intimate that If every
soul was. properly attuned to the har-
monies in art and nature there would
be no such thing as professional pic
ture hangers.
Each individual should select and ar
range the embellishments of his own
dOmicile. This would be the happy
result if this were an artistic instead of
commercial age. But the man who
makes the money has not always the
leisure to develop a sense for the beau
tiful.
The next best thing to do is to en-
ploy the services of a person who makes
study Of the correct thing in pictures.
In this even the picture hanger or art
connoisseur himself will admit there
are dra wbacks. as the work is bound to
lack the vital touch which dominates
the intangible boundary between art
and material things.
There is no lack at the present of a
variety of pictures to select from.
Chicago boasts number of art
studios, where work from the brushes
of the most famous artists OF the world
are constantly on exhibition, says the
Tribune. They have also, for those
whose cannot afford or do not care to
pay money for the sake of a name, ex-
cellent pictures from the brush of Chi.
cagO artists. These are being bought
more and more bv men and women
who have learned that pictures to bt
good need not come from abroad.
Besides these original works there
are many excellent copies of the grea
works of art in steel engravings. etch
ings and photographs, in colors, il
browns, and in neutral tints.
And it takes no fine discrimination
to prefer a good copy of fine painting
to an original in poor production.
1t is somewhat difficult to attemp
any information on the purchase AM
hanging OF pictures. Art defines al
laws and rules in the concrete and a
the same time adheres with ironcla
tenacity to certain tenets in the alb
stract.
Some general hints given by an al
connoisseur may be of interest to thos
intending to purchase pictures.
In halls and reception rooms picture
of an architectural character are genel
ally chosen: fine landscape with a
old cathedral in the background. c
copies Of statuary. These picture
are often Of either the landscape shaI
or in panels.
A landscape picture. which is populs
just now, and one dear to the heart I
every Chicagoan. Ia view of tt
Wooded Island, with the Worlds Fa
buildings in the background. The
are done in colors. and are decided
attractive.
Another form of panel and landscal
shape-which latter Is a long fran
placed transverse across the wall--a
some views from the mural decoration
of the Boston Public Library.
Sargent's "Frieze Of the Prophet
and THE MUSES. Welcoming the GEM
Of Enlightenment" by Puvis de Oh
vannes, are popular just now in the t'
styles mentioned. They are to be h
In autotypes in rich brown h,
They are lovely in tone and accurate
production. The prices range from