"Three Keystones: Power of the Permanent Collection" Exhibition

Ashiya City Museum of Art & History

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Since Ashiya City Museum of Art & History opened in 1993, this is its second permanent collection exhibition. The museum has been acquiring artworks under three groupings: Narashige Koide and the artists of Shinanobashi Painting Institute; Jiro Yoshihara and the Gutai Art Association; Iwata Nakayama, Kanbei Hanaya and the Ashiya Camera Club. The show examines 20 years of the museum's activity, including the preparation period, and the way in which the collection has been conceived and organized.
The exhibition showcases 120 pieces of artworks and related documents, such as of Narashige Koide (1887-1937), who pursued Japanese originality in western-style oil painting, and his fellow teachers and students. It also includes Jiro Yoshihara (1905-1972), who achieved success with avant-garde art in the liberal atmosphere of Ashiya and those artists gathered around him in the Gutai Art Association. And finally Iwata Nakayama (1895-1949), who, returning from the west where he had studied the latest art photography at that time, formed a new group, the Ashiya Camera Club, together with Kanbei Hanaya (1903-1991).

Lecture: July 6th (Sun), July 13th (Sun), July 27th (Sun) 14:00-15:30

Workshop: August 9th (Sat) & August 10th (Sun) 13:00-16:00
￥100
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[Image: Narashige Koide "Lying Naked Girl A" (1928) Oil on Cloth]