Country Japan Opened April 1989 | Floor count 3 above ground Phone +81 277-46-3300 | |
 | ||
Town or city Kiryū, Gunma Prefecture Address 3-69 Kosonecho, Kiryu, Gunma Prefecture 376-0043, Japan Hours Closed now Thursday10AM–4:30PMFriday10AM–4:30PMSaturday10AM–4:30PMSunday10AM–4:30PMMonday10AM–4:30PMTuesday10AM–4:30PMWednesday10AM–4:30PMSuggest an edit Similar Suidoyama Park, Kiryugaoka Park, Nishi‑Kiryū Station, The Museum of Modern A, Kiryushiminami Park | ||
The Okawa Museum of Art (大川美術館, Ōkawa Bijutsukan) is an art gallery in Kiryū, Gunma Prefecture, Japan that concentrates on modern Japanese art.
The gallery, which opened in April 1989, presents the collection of the businessman and writer Eiji Ōkawa (大川栄ニ, 1924–2008), who was born in Kiryū, and has about 6500 items. At its core are about eighty works by Shunsuke Matsumoto (松本竣介) and Hideo Noda (野田英夫); there are many works by other artists associated with these two. The gallery also has a hundred sketches by Takeji Fujishima (藤島武二) and two hundred drawings by Toshi Shimizu (清水登之).
The museum has exhibitions, which are not limited to Japanese art. For example, in early 1990 it held an exhibition of Ben Shahn.
References
Okawa Museum of Art Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA