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Show CIRCULATING ART. I Why Should Pictures Not Be Pasted Around Just Like Books Are? The other day I heard an excellent notion no-tion propounded with regard to works of art. It was the establishment of a circulating cir-culating picture gallery, which should occupy the same relation with regard to paintings as Mudie does in respect of books. Of course the subscription would be higher, as the number of subscribers sub-scribers would be limited. But the pictures would be changed every month, so that a man need never be bored by the eternal Bameness of the walls. A story ia told of a man who dined opposite op-posite to a fine work by Sir Joshua Reynolds Rey-nolds for so many years that it at last had to be moved, for it irritated him to such an extent that he threatened to hurl a decanter of port wine at it. The new society would effectually obviate any such annoyance. All the works would be for sale, so any subscriber taking a fancy to a particular picture might obtain ob-tain the price from the secretary and on j payment thereof could become ita possessor. pos-sessor. The advantage of this system, especially especial-ly in the present depressed state of the fine art market, is obvious, and it would also be a benefit to the buyers, because they would discover after the trial of a month whether they really liked a picture pic-ture or not. The terniB of the subscription would of course be in proportion to the style of pictures supplied. Of course if you expected ex-pected to have works by Sir Joshua Reynolds, George Romney and Sir John Everett Millais the payment would be very much more costly than if you only required a series of prints. But the subscriptions sub-scriptions should be so regulated that it would bring the circulating picture gallery gal-lery within the reach of all. London Graphic. |