EXHIBIT OF JAPANESE PRINTS OPENS MONDAY AT FOGG MUSEUM

From Monday, October 16, until November 1, there will be held at the Fogg Art Museum a loan exhibition of 72 Japanese Color Prints from the collection of Mr. A. D. Ficke '04, recently appointed Curator of Japanese Prints at the Museum.

Mr. Ficke is the author of "Twelve Japanese Painters", published in 1913, and of "Chats on Japanese Prints", published in 1915, as well as of several volumes of poems. His appointment as Curator of Japanese Prints took effect September 1, 1922.

The prints to be shown in the Exhibition date from 1680 to 1780, and illustrate the first and second periods of the art of color printing--from the black and white prints colored by hand through the use of two and three color-blocks and including the work of Harunobu, who was the first to realize the possibilities of full color printing, and who perfected this art in 1765.

Work of Moronobu, the first great master in the history of Japanese Prints, Klyonobu, Masanobu, the greatest of his time, whose works are now very scarce, Klyomitsu and Toyonobu, the most brilliant of the designers of the later part of the Primitive Period, will be shown, and also prints by Harunobu and Shunsho, who took advantage of the processes developed by Harunobu to produce his great actor prints.

On Friday, October 20, at 4.30 o'clock, in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum, Mr. Ficke will give a talk on Japanese Prints. The lecture will be open to the public.