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Show Built-in Oil Paintings. Aa a rule oil paintings arc not strikingly successful In tho nvorago houso. They do not hnrmonlzo with either water colors, blacks and whltea or brown photographa and If hung In tho samo room need a wall space to themselves Often, too, tho cojor of tho wull Is not a good background for an oil. A dollghtful disposition for a low sort or a Hguro study ta to leave It unfranied nnd fit It In to the central space or mo woouen emu-ney emu-ney piece. Tho picture, thus mado a part of tho structure of tho room, and Burroundod by dark wood, has a dignity and vnluo which it woufd never achieve In a gold frame and hanging on a wall. |