Art display system and method

An illuminated display unit in kit form for displaying and lighting a museum or other institutional gift shop art sheet in a residential home setting comprising:

• a pre-wired electrical set comprising of a lamp socket with a threaded nipple, a hand tightened nut engageable with said nipple, and an attached line cord;
• an art sheet of translucent material, said art sheet having a work of art or other image reproduced on a surface of said art sheet;
• said art sheet having top and bottom edges and left and right side edges, said art sheet being rolled so that said left and right edges are joined by a vertically extending adhesive tape member provided with said art sheet;
• a plain frame in the form of a loop with a peripheral shoulder to engage an edge of said art sheet and guide said art sheet into a conforming closed shape around said plain frame;
• a support frame having a loop member with a peripheral shoulder matching that of said plain frame to engage an edge of said art sheet distal to that engaged with said plain frame, said support frame also comprising three or more radially extending members attaching said loop member to a centrally located bulb socket support disk;
• said socket support disk having a hole dimensioned to accept said socket nipple with a peripheral slot of smaller width than said hole diameter to allow access to said line cord permitting locking of said lamp socket into said socket support disk by hand threading said nut onto end of said nipple after insertion into support disk;
• said radially extending members bent into V-shapes forming legs for table-top use while locating said lamp socket at a proper height for illuminination of said art sheet;
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• each support shoulder of said loops of said frames engageable with respective upper and lower edges of said rolled art sheet whereby when said kit is assembled said display unit may be assembled by a user without use of tools and said art sheet may be replaced by a subsequent art sheet.