Barbara Jones decided to put the new LED lights to the test.
When officials at the Westmoreland Museum of Art debated replacing its halogen bulb fixtures with a more efficient but expensive LED system, Jones, the museum’s chief curator, wondered whether the bulbs would provide the same quality of lighting. So she instructed staff to hang several oil-on-canvas paintings, including George Hetzel’s “Two Young Fishermen in a Summer Landscape,” and bathed them in LED light.