N.Z. ART IN PRINT

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31672, 7 May 1968, Page 21

N.Z. ART IN PRINT

A. H. and A. W. Reed will publish, later this year, the first three titles in a new series called “New Zealand Art.” The three volumes were edited-by Peter Tomory, a former director of the Auckland City Art Gallery and senior lecturer in art history at the University of Auckland, who is now on the staff of the department of art

history and archaeology at Columbia University, New York. The volumes will provide an introduction to the history of painting in New Zealand from 1827 to 1967: the intention is not to provide a comprehensive account, but to give a commentary on principal artists and important trends. Hamish Keith, Keeper of the Auckland gallery, has written the first, “Painting 1827-1890.” Mr Tomory wrote the second. “Painting 18901950," and Mark Young, art critic for the “Auckland Star" in 1966-1967. the third, “Painting 1950-1967.” Each moderately-priced volume will contain 26 reproductions (eight of them in colour), biographies of the artists whose works are reproduced, and comment on the paintings. A bibliography and and charts of contemporary events will also be included. Artists represented will include, among others, Heaphy, Hoyte, Van der Velden, Frances Hodgkins, Sydney Thompson, Colin McCahon, W. A. Sutton, Toss Woollaston, Rudy Gopas, Milan Mrkusich, Patrick Hanly, Don Peebles, and Philip Trusttum. A list of public collections of each artist’s work will be included and the books> will be available separately or bound as one zolume.