LIGHTING PICTURE GALLERIES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 2 September 1924, Page 8

LIGHTING PICTURE GALLERIES.

MISSED .OPPORTUNITY AT WEMBLEY. ’

LECTURE BY MR S. HURST SEAGER.

~ ' . LONDON, Aug. 19. Mdd the request of .the -teaching ..staff or the Architectural Association, Mr S Hurst Seager delivered to -the advanced students of the school a lecture on his system of top-side-lighting : .for m onf ain picture -galleries..--V. lhe subject of. satisfactory '-museum lighting was, he .said, one j which did not seem 'to make much headway in this country. The ...admirable opportunity which the Temporary buildings at Wembley would seem to have-offer-eel for a full-size experiment in his system/had iinfortunately been .missed, and the results of the recent Hull Art brallenes Competition showed- the premiated design to he . conceived in -the old-fashioned method -of . ; top ; lighting with all its customary . defects vof : ■reflection. and glitter in the .pictures. An examination of the rPalace of Art .'Galleries at Wembley showed that the clerestory, lighting adopted, .pleasant enough tor unglazed pictures, did not contribute anything towards the probem of reflections in those covered with glass. , ' lhe. Sarjeant Art • Gallery ,at Wanganui New -Zealand, designed on the top-side-light principle, the fighting of- the pictures .was* admirable, and Lord Leverhulme, in a -recent visit was so impressed with the fact, that he had promised a collection of pictures to the gallery. The lecturer exhibited a -complete series of diagrams and photographs illustrative of the principles; some of these have appeared in Ithe pamphlet reprinted by the R.1.8.A., and others, sued as the section showing the lighting proposed for the museum at.jSt. Quentin, to hold La Tours’ pastels, are fresh. _ The success which had attended the adoption of his principles in the Douvre .Galleries, which temporarily housed the La Tours, was, he said, convincing. The French press was unanimous in agreeing 'that the beauties of these, pictures were seen, if “2* f °i‘ first time, .at least afresh after their sojourn -in ill-lit galleries