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]