Author : Hillyer Art Gallery
Release : 2013-09
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Download or read book Bulletin of Smith College; Hillyer Art Gallery written by Hillyer Art Gallery. This book was released on 2013-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ...to the donor of the building, and designed to contain his own paintings and a selection from his gifts, so that his memory may be worthily and sympathetically perpetuated. On the lower floor are three more galleries, a large one and two smaller, similar in shape to those on the main floor, but lighted from windows instead of from above; and in addition a large storeroom. There are, of course, aside from the galleries, the necessary coat rooms and lavatories. In order to ensure complete protection from fine, as well as from coal-smoke and dust, the heat is piped from the existing building, the Hillyer Gallery. This is done by means of an underground passage. As packing and unpacking is to be done in the old building, it will be possible to exclude any kind of inflammable material from the new. All of the halls and galleries are carefully designed to give that intimacy of touch that their sizes indicate. Never is intrusive architectural detail allowed to distract one's attention from the works of art themselves, though never is there an effect of boldness or starkness. It is all quiet, restrained, delicate, simple, in color as in design. The floor and door frames of the hall are of Botticino marble of a warm greyish tint; and the same warm grey though stronger and darker will be used on its walls, which will serve as an excellent background for tapestries and sculpture. The gallery floors are cork tile, quiet and restful in color and texture; above them the walls sweep in unbroken surfaces, covered with textiles of neutral tone, to the coved cornice at the top, which will be of a warm ivory tint. The Tryon Room itself will be similar in general color scheme, but richer and yet more intimate in its te tural treatment. In the galleries of the...