QUARTERLY

NUMBER SEVENTEEN — 1961

E D I T O R I A L
THIS ISSUE OF THE Quarterly is almost completely devoted to the review of works purchased by the Director during his recent tour of Europe; it will illustrate modern painting, prints and sculpture added to the collection.

PAINTING FROM THE PACIFIC

Now on tour through New Zealand, this exhibition of eighty-one paintings from Japan. West Coast America, Australia and New Zealand was shown first in Auckland as our contribution to the 1961 Festival of the Arts.

   With this exhibition. New Zealand painting has, for the first time, entered into the field of international exhibitions, and that this should be in the context of an exhibition exploring regional implications is most apposite.

THE GALLERY ASSOCIATES
Membership of the Auckland Gallery Associates has now grown to 425. The Associates have recently broken new ground in sponsoring the production of a play by Mr Frank Sargeson: A Time For Sowing. This was played for a highly successful season of six nights, in the Gallery, at the time of the Auck-

land Festival. The Executive Committee has invited Mr Eric McCormick to act as buyer for 1961-62. Mr McCormick, who is well known as a writer of criticism in both art and literature, will be remembered for his talk, ' The Inland Eye,' which was subsequently published by the Associates.

JOSEF HERMAN (born 1911) British

THREE MINERS RESTING (cover plate)
Pen and wash 8 x lOins 1955

Purchased 1956

MINERS CANTEEN

Oil on canvas 36 x 48ins 1960

Purchased 1961

Herman once wrote: 'It was with the Welsh miner that I learned to read, out of the particular, the symbolic . . .' But he went on to say that the Welsh miner had no interest for him as a representative of a particular industry. And in an earlier written piece on Yshagyn-lais, the Welsh village where he spent ten years, he wrote that the miners made him think '... of old Egyptian carvings walking between sky and earth, or dark rocks fashioned into glorious human shapes, or heavy logs in which a primitive hand has tried to synthesise