Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 240, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1915 — Built-in Oil Paintings. [ARTICLE]

Built-in Oil Paintings.

As a rule oil paintings are not strikingly successful in the average house. They do not harmonize with either water colors, blacks and whites or brown photographs and if hung in the same room need a wall space to themselves. Often, too, the color of the wall is not a good background for an oil. A delightful disposition for a low sort of a figure study is to leave it unframed and fit it in to the central space of the wooden chimney piece. The picture, thus made a part of the structure of the room, and surrounded by dark wood, has a dignity and value which it would never achieve in a gold frame and hanging on a wall.