HIGHLIGHT HILARY TOLMAN ‘87 COLLECTION TOP: Iwami Reika. Japanese, born 1927. Fantasy of Okhotsk, 1981. Woodcut, mica and silver leaf printed on medium thick, slightly textured, cream- colored paper. The Hilary Tolman, class of 1987, Collection. Gift of the Tolman Collection, Tokyo . MIDDLE: Yao Wu and Norman Tolman BOTTOM: Tolman family IN 2007, THE TOLMAN COLLECTION, THE LARGEST publisher of contemporary prints in Japan, began donating works to SCMA in honor of Hilary Tolman ’87. Throughout the past decade, 129 prints representing a wide range of media and approaches have entered the collection. These works were created between the 1950s and the present, during the “creative print” (so ¯ saku hanga) movement in Japanese printmaking, which emphasizes personal creativity and experimentation. Over the past year The Tolman Collection added 51 works to the collection including deep bodies of work by Reika Iwami, one of the most important female printmakers of the 20th century, and Goto ¯ Hidehiko, a master craftsman of woodblock printing. The gift also included a selection of masterworks by artists from the 1950s and 1960s. Selections from this gift were displayed from May through August 2017 in the Carol T. Christ Asian Art Gallery in honor of the 30th reunion of the class of 1987. The extraordinary works in the Hilary Tolman, class of 1987, Collection gives SCMA one of the stron- gest college collections of postwar Japanese prints. Of particular interest in this collection and installation are works by important women artists, including influential pioneers such as Yoshida Chizuko, revered legends such as Shinoda To ¯ ko ¯ and younger-generation artists such as Saito Noriko. We are grateful to the Tolman Collection for the ongoing commitment to building this area of strength in the museum’s collection, which allows members of our community to fully explore Japanese printmaking. 56