This year marks 110 years since 1912, the last year of the Meiji era. This exhibition introduces more than 200 watercolors and oil paintings collected overseas by one collector, showing how the artist's gaze captured the Japanese landscape during this period when Japan as a whole was undergoing a major transformation from its relationship with Western countries and its own consciousness was also turning outward. Included among these are 13 works by Hachiro Nakagawa (1877-1922), a Western-style painter from Uchiko Town, including his early masterpiece "Snow Forest Returning to Pasture." On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his death, this exhibition will feature all of Nakagawa's works in our collection in conjunction with this exhibition, and once again convey the appeal of his work. In the uncontrollable swell of the times, the landscapes that the painters discovered were not new but were the everyday life that existed there.
[Events] 1. Commemorative Lecture "Art and Cultural Exchange between East and West in the Meiji Era, Focusing on Hisamatsu Sadamo and Kuroda Seiki" Date: Saturday, December 3, 14:00-16:00 Lecturer: Shuichi Kajioka (Senior Researcher, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Head Curator) Venue: Auditorium, Ehime Museum of Art West Wing Capacity: 60 (first-come, first-served basis; registration required)
2. Watercolor Painting Class from the Basics Date: Saturday, December 10, 10:30-15:30 Instructor: Keiji Ido (watercolorist, Shiran-no-kai organizer) Venue: Mansuiso, Ehime Prefectural Museum of Art South Wing, Practical Classroom Capacity: 12 (first-come-first-served basis, application required) Fee: about 500 yen
3. Lecture "Eight Stories of Hachiro Nakagawa" Date: Saturday, January 21, 14:00-15:30 Lecturer: Kiyan Mine (chief curator of the museum) Venue: Ehime Museum of Art, New Annex, 2F Capacity: 20 people (no application required) For more information on the event and how to register, please visit the official website.
Closed on 12/6, 12/12, 12/19, 12/26, 12/29-1/3, 1/10, 1/16 and 1/23.
Fee
Adults ¥900; Seniors 65 & Over ¥800; University and High School Students ¥500; Junior High School Students and Under, Persons with Disability Certificates + 1 Companion free.
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