AUCKLAND CITY ART GALLERY

QUARTERLY

NUMBER T W E N T Y-F 0 U R —1 962

EDITORIAL

We have decided to devote this issue of Quarterly to the review of a selection of modern prints in the collection. In the previous number we reproduced two engravings and a woodcut of the Northern renaissance; here we have prints from France, Germany, Japan and America.

   In the last five years or so the Gallery has been acquiring graphic work with a very definite policy in mind. The desideratum of a balanced collection necessitates, in our case, filling gaps in schools and periods with prints or drawings by the important artists: this we have tried to do.
   In the field of the contemporary print we have followed developments with a number of exhibitions from various parts of the world — most notably, the recent International Prints, which included work from seven countries.
   It might be mentioned in passing that we have the only examples of modern Japanese printmaking in public collections in the country: a small but selective group of the sosaku hanga school.