LIGHTING PICTURE GALLERIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19261, 27 August 1924, Page 4

LIGHTING PICTURE GALLERIES.

MISSED OPPORTUNITY AT WEMBLEY. LECTURE BY MR S. HURST SEAGEU. (Fkom Odb Own Coebespondenta LONDON, July 19. At tha request of the teaching staff of the Architectural Association, Mr S. Hurst Seaget delivered to the advanced student* of the school a lecture on his system of top-eide-lighting for museum and picture galleries. . . The subject of satisfactory museum ligating was, he said, one which did not seem to moke much headway in this country. The admirable opportunity which the temporary buildings at Wembley would seem to have offered for a full-size experiment in his syotem had unfortunately been missed, and the results of the recent Hull Art .Galleries Competition showed the promiateu design to be conceived in the old-fashioned method of top lighting with all its customary defects of reflection and glitter in the pictures. An examination of the Palace of Art Galleries at Wombley showed that the clerestory lighting adopted, pleasant enough for unglazed pictures, did not contribute anything towards the problem of reflections in those covered with glass. In the Sarjoant Art Gallery at Wanganui, New Zealand, designed on the top-side-lighi principle, the lighting of the pictures was aamirabje, and Lord Leverhulmo, in a reccni visit, was so impressed with the fart thai he had promised a collection of picture,---. to the gallery. The lecturer exhibited a complete sene? of diagrams and photograph* illustrative o. the principles; some of these have appearot in the pamphlet reprinted by tho K.i.8.A., and others, such as the section showing tiK lighting uroposed for tile museum at o v . Quentin, to hold La Tours’ pastels, art Lreob. The success which had attended uae adoption of his principles in the Louvre Galleries, which temporarily housed the Ga Tours, was, ho said, convincing. To* French press was unanimous in agreeing that tbs beauties of these pictures wore seen, if not for the first time, at least afroac alter their sojourn in ill-Ut galleries.