18th-19th Century Japanese Print Exhibition Catalogue - Johannesburg 1962

Original 18th-19th Century Japanese Print Exhibition Catalogue Adler Fielding Galleries, Johannesburg, 1962, textured original Japanese print pasted down to front cover, gatefold, 4 pages, 20.5 cms x 23 cms, condition: as new. 

Exhibition catalogue includes list of original prints available by artist, Arts Festival Week Evening Film Shows, Arts Festival Week Luncheon Hour Lectures with list of speakers incl. Cecil Skotnes, Charles Eglington (the JHB poet), Anthony Farmer (theatrical designer), Cecil Steynberg (sculptor) & others. Lunch to be served on the Roof Garden.

The Adler Fielding Galleries, at Walbrook, corner Commissioner & Von Brandis Streets, were a very important and exciting art gallery on the Johannesburg scene. In 1957, the galleryt started a regular exhibition programme featuring Gerald Sekoto, Irma Stern, Gordon Vorster, Cecil Skotnes amongst others.They were also instrumental in organisation of the Witwatersrand Art Festival Exhibition at the University of the  Witwatersrand.

"Louis (artist Louis Maqhubela ) used to help me, he took me to art galleries. The one that stands out is the Adler Fielding Gallery , no longer in existence.  It's been a hard struggle for them (black artists), because the temptation is to produce "township" or "airport" art, the stereotyped, stylised art that sells readily and helps artists make a living. " Koloane's quest has been to encourage artists to go beyond this, and to "look into themselves and find their own vocabulary"."

David Koloane (South African artist, he is considered to have been "an influential artist and writer of the apartheid years")