- Ohara Museum of Art
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Ōhara Art Museum
The Ohara Museum of Art in Kurashiki was the first collection of Western art to be permanently exhibited in Japan. The museum opened in 1930 and originally consisted almost entirely of French paintings and sculptures of the 19th and 20th centuries. The collection has now expanded to include paintings of the Italian Renaissance and of the Dutch and Flemish 17th century. Well-known American and Italian artists of the 20th century are also included in the collection.
The basis of the collection was formed by Ōhara Magosaburō on the advice of the Japanese painter Kojima Torajirō (1881-1929) and the French artist Edmond Aman-Jean (1860-1935).
Selected artists
- El Greco (Annunciation)
- Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
- Camille Pissarro
- Edgar Degas
- Claude Monet (Water Lilies)
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
- Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin
- Giovanni Segantini
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
- Amedeo Clemente Modigliani
- Pablo Picasso
- Jackson Pollock
- Giorgio de Chirico
- Yuzo Saeki
- Fujishima Takeji
- Ryuzaburo Umehara
- Sōtarō Yasui
- Shikō Munakata
- Tadanori Yokoo
External links
- Official site (en)
Categories:- Art museums and galleries in Japan
- Museums in Okayama Prefecture
- Okayama geography stubs
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