In a message dated 3/8/99 2:45:11 PM, [log in to unmask] writes:

>  Pull out drawers with framed or encapsulated works (but from past
>experience we know that such drawers tend to jam and quickly break down
>from
>use). (Also, one can only store a few pieces in each drawer.)
>
>-  Framed works hung on screens (but we're worried about the public or
>even
>scholars pulling and tugging the screens freely and often --the wear and
>tear on the artworks).
>


1. cf. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, for their etching collection,
on a set of pull-out vertical panels in a hallway. (Or are they hinged?)

2. Many years ago, New York sculptor and lighting designer Bernard
Kirschenbaum designed and had constructed a set of huge pull-out walls for Max
Hutchinson's gallery in Soho. A switch was tripped as the walls moved into the
viewing space, turning on a set of lights to illuminate the paintings on the
walls.

David Formanek
Cyrus E. Dallin Art Museum
Arlington MA 02476