JAPANESE ART

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 185, 26 October 1927, Page 1

JAPANESE ART

Coloured-Prints Show Opened in Auckland DISPLAY OF PROCESS It is the intention of Captain Hum-phreys-I>a vies, part of whose collection of prints is now on view at the Auckland Art Gallery. to deliver an address on the art of the Japanese print-colourist. The origin and methods of the TJkiyoye School, which flourished from about 1740 until the middle of last century, will be explained by Captain Humplireys-Davies, who, together with Mr. H. S. Dadley, has been responsible for giving Aucklanders an opportunity of viewing this exceedingly interesting phase of Japanese art. The show was opened last evening by Miss Ellen Melville, chairman of the Library Committee of the City Council, who congratulated the Art Director, Mr. John Barr, and Mr. T. V. Gulliver. his collaborator, on their painstaking efforts in preparing tho exhibition.

Miss Melville explained that it was part of the committee’s policy to hold special exhibitions throughout the year. The colour-prints show, she said, was the second this year. An innovation likely to be appreciated, added Miss Melville, was that the Russell Room, in which the collection is displayed, would be open at night. Captain Humphreys-Eavies, replying on behalf of the donors, said both Mr. Dadley and himself appreciated the fact that so much interest was manifested in the prints. He expressed the hope that the exhibition would be of some benefit to the students of Auckland, and of educational benefit generally. An interesting display was arranged by Mr.* Gulliver, which depicted the whole process of colour printing, an art which, according to one theory, was originally introduced into Japan in the 16th Century by Christian missionaries. The display was on somewhat similar lines to that of the etching process which Mr. Gulliver showed at the last exhibition. It was viewed with considerable interest.