The New England magazine . the effects of colored back-grounds,— these and other principles havebeen definitely stated and applied to theparticular project. The experience of otherinstitutions as regards lighting proved forthe most part either inapplicable or negativein result. The subject had to be investi-gated absolutely at first hand. When, finally, after three years of labor,the trustees, possessing data more ample subsequently formed and as at present con-stituted, its members are Samuel D. War-ren, J. Randolph Coolidge, Jr., Henry , Morris Gray, and Gardiner The choic
The New England magazine . the effects of colored back-grounds,— these and other principles havebeen definitely stated and applied to theparticular project. The experience of otherinstitutions as regards lighting proved forthe most part either inapplicable or negativein result. The subject had to be investi-gated absolutely at first hand. When, finally, after three years of labor,the trustees, possessing data more ample subsequently formed and as at present con-stituted, its members are Samuel D. War-ren, J. Randolph Coolidge, Jr., Henry , Morris Gray, and Gardiner The choice of architect has proved fortu-nate. Mr. Lowell, a comparatively youngman, a graduate of Harvard, trained inarchitecture at the Massachusetts Instituteof Technology and lEcole des Beaux-Arts,has already done notable work in severallarge commissions; none of his achieve-ments up to this time, in all probability, out-ranks that undertaken at the behest of thetrustees of the Museum of Fine Arts. ? ;?•?••? MT#. Complete plan of the museum group, of which the part connected with the three projecting portions will be erected first than ever before collated in an undertakingof this kind, had decided precisely whatkind of museum they wanted to build, andhad formulated their decision in a sketchplan, elevations, and a perspective preparedwith the aid of the architects previously en-gaged, and of Professor D. Despradelle, ofthe Massachusetts Institute of Technology,they then commissioned Mr. Guy Lowell,architect, in consultation with , Sturgis, and Despradelle, tocarry out the scheme. The original buildingcommittee consisted of Samuel D. Warren,J. R. Coolidge, Jr., Morris Gray, F. , Henry S. Hunnewell, ThorntonK. Lothrop, and Denman W. Ross. As A thoroughly workmanlike set of plans,at all events, has been produced by and his assistants working industri-ously at his rooms in the Tremont assignment was one to evoke enthusi-asm. A
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