Okawa Museum of Art explained

Ōkawa Museum of Art
Native Name:大川美術館
Address:3-36 Kosone-cho
Location Town:Kiryū, Gunma Prefecture
Location Country:Japan
Coordinates:36.4168°N 139.334°W
Opened Date:April 1989
Floor Count:3 above ground

The is an art gallery in Kiryū, Gunma Prefecture, Japan that concentrates on modern Japanese art.[1]

The gallery, which opened in April 1989, presents the collection of the businessman and writer Eiji Ōkawa (1924 - 2008), who was born in Kiryū, and has about 6500 items. At its core are about eighty works by Shunsuke Matsumoto and Hideo Noda ; there are many works by other artists associated with these two. The gallery also has a hundred sketches by Takeji Fujishima and two hundred drawings by Toshi Shimizu .

The museum has exhibitions, which are not limited to Japanese art. For example, in early 1990 it held an exhibition of Ben Shahn.[2]

Notes

  1. Unless otherwise noted, the material in this article comes from Zenkoku bijutsukan gaido (; Tokyo: Bijutsu Shuppansha, 2006;), p.102.
  2. http://www.kiryu.co.jp/ohkawamuseum/exhibitionpast01.htm List of past exhibitions