CAL-IN is pleased to present SOLUX, a patented light source that provides an unparalleled replication of natural daylight. No other light source in the world matches daylight more closely than SoLux. SoLux is used in many of the world's top museums including the Van Gogh Museum. SoLux is also an environmentally friendly light source. SoLux is more energy efficient than incandescent sources and does not contain mercury found in fluorescent lights sources.


The SoLux Art Light was developed to ensure optimal viewing conditions for paintings both in the gallery and in the home. The Art Light exclusively utilizes the Solux Daylight Bulb developed and patented by Tailored Lighting Inc. SoLux is specified by the worlds premier museums and art galleries on paintings by Picasso, Monet, Degas, Van Gogh, Vermeer, and Rembrandt to name a few. We are pleased to announce the Musee d'Orsay in Paris France has chosen the SoLux light source to relight their entire museum collection. The Musee d'Orsay is best known for housing one of the most extensive collections of French Impressionist art in the world. Works by Degas, Monet, Renior, van Gogh, and Cezanne will now be bathed in a natural light bringing out the true beauty and genius that was hidden under the old lighting. For a complete list of over fifty Museums, Galleries, and Artists that specify SoLux, click here

The SoLux Art light incorporates a proprietary diffuser assembly to ensure maximum beam uniformity and spread and the SoLux "Black Back" bulb that emits no light out the back. The SoLux 3500K 36 degree 50 watt Daylight Black Back Bulb in combination with the diffuser emits the closest simulation of daylight with lowest UV and IR of any light source on the market.

To ensure optimal beam spread coverage, the Art Light's head can be tilted and height is easily adjusted by loosening the set screws found on the mounting disk. The SoLux Art light can easily light a 3x3 foot painting or if you have a smaller painting the artlight can be adjusted to produce a pattern as small as 20 inches in diameter.

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Here's a more detailed view of the art light mounting hardware:



To fine tune the output of the art light without changing the color temperature we have developed the Neutral Density Screen Kit. The Kit allows you to reduce the output by 30%, 50%, or 60% depending on how many screens you use.

For larger paintings we suggest looking at our double headed Wall Mount Fixture. The low voltage transformer supplied with each Art Light provides a steady stream of power to the SoLux Daylight lamp that lasts an incredible 6,000 hours. You can purchase the Art Light with a plug in wall transformer, 10 foot black powercord, and on/off thumb wheel switch (Art Light with Cord option), or with a hardwire kit that connects directly to a power outlet behind the painting (Hardwire option requires wallmounted switch which is not included).

This was written by the Independent, a British publication, when SoLux used at the Van Gogh Museum to illuminate Van Gogh and Gauguin masterpieces. As makers of SoLux, we view this as the ultimate compliment:

"The show will delight Van Gogh and Gauguin groupies and academics alike, for the best gourmet-gourmand reason: the paintings seem naked, new and endless...the hi-tech radiance (SoLux) that shines down on The Sower, and other paintings, is thoroughly democratic, there is no bias towards bleak chaos; the slightest variation in colour density, the plasticity or patterning of brush strokes, even the micro-thin shadow lines - all are even-handedly revealed. And, in most of Van Gogh's canvases and later Gauguin's, all seems forever young... the effect is electrifying: the paint still looks wet; one waits instinctively for a waft of linseed."

A partial List of Museums, Artists, and Art Galleries where SoLux can be found:
* Rijksmuseum Eregalerij, The Gallery of Honor, Netherlands
* Van Gogh Museum, Netherlands "You allowed us to see things we've never seen before"
* National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
* Los Angeles County Museum, CA
* Artrain, Collection of NASA and Air and Space Museum, "Thanks for a great product"
* Guggenheim Museum, NY, NY, and Bilbao Spain, 2001 Giorgio Armani Exhibit
* Rembrandt House, Amsterdam, Netherlands
* Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters, NYC, NY
* Museum of Natural History, Gem Display, San Diego, CA
* Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
* American Museum of Natural History, Gem Display, NYC, NY
* Philadelphia Museum of Art
* Memorial Art Gallery,Rochester, NY
* Notre Dame exhibit in South Bend, IN
* Cincinnati Art Museum, David Dillon, "They're extraordinary"
* "After September 11: Images from Ground Zero", photographs by Joel Meyerowitz.
* Diane Burko Marriott Hotel in Center City, Philadelphia
* Marquette Building, Tiffany Mosaic (1894) Chicago, IL
* Christopher Ries' fine crystal sculpture gallery
* Riley Hawk Galleries in Columbus, OH
* Josh Simpson Contemporary Glass "We Love SoLux"
* John Himmelfarb

"What a difference SoLux has made on our art! While we were waiting for all your bulbs to come in we had one room that was half SoLux and half another company's and you could really see the difference. You have a great product!
Julie Bonomo