January 6, 2020
Ishibashi Foundation Artizon Museum

Artizon Museum Eyes Its Grand Opening in January 2020
The new Artizon Museum (Director: Ishibashi Hiroshi) is to open its doors in central Tokyo in January
2020. Currently taking shape in a recently completed award-winning Museum Tower Kyobashi, theArtizon Museum is a new incarnation of the Bridgestone Museum of Art, which has long enjoyed a good
reputation as a showcase of masterpieces in modern art. Artizon Museum will be a state-of-the-art
architectural design equipped with the latest operational systems. This press release provides an
overview of the new museum.

History of Artizon Museum
In 1952, Bridgestone Museum of Art was founded by Ishibashi Shojiro, the founder of Bridgestone
Corporation. Shojiro was an entrepreneur, but he was also one of Japan's prominent art collectors. He
began collecting Western-style paintings by Japanese artists such as Aoki Shigeru and Fujishima Takeji,during the 1930s. After the war he set about becoming a serious collector of the paintings that had
inspired these artists, including Impressionist and other French paintings. Over a period of two decades,
he built a vast collection of Western-style paintings by Japanese and Western artists.
Shojiro was not interested in keeping the treasured collection to himself, but wished to dedicate himself
to the nation's cultural enrichment by creating a museum where the art would be seen by many people.
His Bridgestone Museum of Art opened to the public in 1952 on the second ﬂoor of the Bridgestone
Building in Tokyo's Kyobashi district. It pre-dated the National Museum of Western Art and at the time
was the only art museum in Tokyo offering a permanent exhibition of French art.
In 1956, he established the Ishibashi Foundation to carry on his dream. The foundation continues tomanage the art museum under Shojiro

s principle, For the Happiness and Welfare of All People, tothis day, maintaining its status as one of the more prestigious private museums in Japan. In 2012, thegovernment recognized the public beneﬁt of the Ishibashi Foundation and designated it a Public Interest
Incorporated Foundation.

Reconstruction inspired new museum
Decision to reconstruct the Bridgestone Building was made in 2012. Housed in former company ofﬁces,
the old museum suffered from a number of difﬁculties: galleries and backyards had insufﬁcient space,large artworks could not be displayed under the low ceilings, and the entrance location was notadvantageous. The decision to reconstruct the Bridgestone Building was made in 2012 and it provided
an excellent opportunity to design a new museum from scratch and solve these long-standing issues.

Ishibashi Foundation Artizon Museum
1-7-2 Kyobashi, Chuo Ward, Tokyo 104-0031 TEL (+81) 3-3563-0241 FAX (+81) 3-3561-2130

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The original museum closed in May 2015 to prepare for construction of the new 23-story building.
NIKKEN SEKKEI was put in charge of design and construction management for the new building, while
TONERICO, INC is responsible for design of the new museum, which will occupy the lower ﬂoors.
Construction work was ﬁnished in July 2019.

A new direction for the new museum
The Artizon Museum is based on the concept ofExperiencing Creativity. It will not only be dedicatedto the appreciation of works of art, but also offers a venue where the creativity of past, present andfuture can be experienced to enhance new creativity in the minds of people.
The aim is to become a comprehensive museum that meets the needs of art lovers and draws newpeople to the appreciation of art, while respecting the former museums patrons from the past 65

years. The museum is expanding in scope to include antique art, modern Japanese painting in theWestern style, the Impressionists, 20th century art and contemporary art.

Name change
The building project offered a chance for the museum to chart a new course. Taking advantage of theopportunity, it was decided to rename the museum in line with the museums concept:

Creativity.

andThe new name, ARTIZON MUSEUM, was coined from words art

Experiencing

horizon',symbolizing the sense of birth of new art, artists and styles on the horizon. The new name embodies
the desire to become a new museum in both name and substance.

Highly accessible location
Artizon Museum is located on the same site as the former
Bridgestone Museum of Art, within walking distance of Tokyo
Station which is Japan s primary hub of railroad and bus services
covering all corners of the nation. The new museum entrance islocated on Chuo-dori, the main street linking Ginza with
Akihabara and subway services nearby provide easy access foroverseas visitors. Artizon Museum also hopes to be an oasis' forbusiness people who work in the commercial district of Kyobashi
and its vicinity.

■ For further information
Artizon Museum, Public Relations Dept.
1-7-2 Kyobashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104‒0031, Japan
Tel: 03-3563-0241 Fax: 03-3561-2130
E-mail: publicity@artizon.jp

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Reference
Several characteristics of the Artizon Museum can be found in this Reference.
The new building

Museum Tower Kyobashi

The new 23-story new building has been named
Museum Tower Kyobashi and is a winner of 2020
CTBUH Award of Excellence. The upper levels are ofﬁce
ﬂoors, with the museum occupying the lower levels.
Fitted with 30 modern seismic isolation bearings madeof rubber, the building is designed to efﬁciently absorb
major earthquakes. This structure also makes possible
a spacious interior free of columns.
All electric system that supports vital functions ‒ suchas the generators and heat source equipment ‒ areinstalled on the 8th and 9th ﬂoors to ensure thatbuilding functions are maintained in the event ofdisaster. Emergency generators are able to supply fullpower for 72 hours in case of serious power outage
and, together, these features ensure that a keyword forthe building is resilience
The museum

The museum entrance and a grid-like façade
present the Museum Tower Kyobashi

s newidentity. The museum occupies the 1st to 7th
ﬂoors, with viewing galleries on the 4th to 6th
Cross-section of museum

the museum's valuable
isolated from possible
tsunami and ﬂood.

5F

Galleries

4F

Galleries

Seismic isolation rubber
placed underground

Main lobby
Lecture room

3F
Free zone

artworks will be

Galleries

Atriumplaced on higher ﬂoors,

6F

2F
1F

Atriumall exhibits being

Galleries zone

ofﬁces on the 7th. With

Atriumﬂoors and the museum

Museum shop

Museum cafe

The gallery space is approximately 2,100 m 2 ,roughly twice the total area of the old museum. A
vertical layout of galleries, museum shop, café
and museum ofﬁces signiﬁes a museum in a newurban style.
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Spacious lobby atrium
Eight-meter windows ﬁtted with high-transparency
glass extend the full height of the 1st and 2nd ﬂoor
lobby area, creating a large open space connecting to
the main street and an adjacent Art Space plaza,scheduled to open in 2024. Visible from outside, thisspacious atrium presents a welcoming aspect tovisitors.
A second large atrium linking the 3rd to the 5th ﬂoors
forms another vertical open space. The airy atrium
offers visitors a delightful contrast with the galleries
themselves as they explore the museum. The atrium
linking upper gallery ﬂoors helps orient visitors. With
all-round windows admitting abundant natural light,
this large open interior space can be seen from
Chuo-dori down below.
The internal environment is entirely new, with all new
museum café, museum shop and info room.

The facilities
Innovative air conditioning
All of the galleries are ﬁtted with a new type of
displacement air conditioning system in which the 5mm ﬂoor gaps are used as air outlets. Fresh air,controlled for temperature and humidity, emanates
gently from the entire ﬂoor, pushing used air upward
for extraction through the ceiling outlets. The
temperature and humidity variations are tightly
controlled within museum tolerances. With the interior

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environment having no discernible air currents andbeing very energy-efﬁcient, the system is friendly toboth people and artworks.

Specially designed LED spotlights
The Artizon Museum worked with Yamagiwa
Corporation to develop high-quality LED spotlights thatprovide maximum ﬂexibility and show artworks under
optimal lighting conditions. Using VIOLEDs (purpleLEDs) for accurate color rendering, the spotlights are

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controlled in both brightness and color ranging from2,700K to 4,500K. A wireless control system enables
individual spotlights to be adjusted manually using atablet computer, which is particularly useful in thehigh-ceilinged galleries. These next-generation
spotlights strike a balance in elegance of design,
installation precision and user-friendly control.

Advanced display case
The new Artizon Museum will exhibit an expanded
range of art genres and has the opportunity ofshowing sensitive antiquities and similar objects in adisplay case occupying part of the 4th ﬂoor. This
integrated display case of highly transparent laminatedglass is of unprecedented length at 15 meters, making
it perfect for seamless appreciation of Japanese
screens and other works in the collection. It has built-in
15-meter-long integrated glass exhibition caseorganic electroluminescent (EL) and othercutting-edge lighting systems allowing pieces to be
exhibited under ideal lighting.
The display case can be raised and lowered using
powerful motors, allowing the curators to fully accessthe showcase interior for arrangement of the exhibits.

On the cutting edge of data innovation
The Artizon Museum aims to be part of Open Datainnovation, making its art data publicly available toencourage wider access by researchers. Databases arebeing compiled with this goal in mind, but ourcommitment to Experiencing Creativity

means we

will go further, combining the data withstate-of-the-art technology to develop a cloudcomputing environment for special exhibitions andspecial projects.

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Digital displays
Digital Collection Walls, created by teamLab Inc., areplaced on the walls of the gallery lobbies on the 4th
and 5th ﬂoors. By presenting artworks on screen, thesemonitors will allow visitors to intuitively experience
the Ishibashi Foundation collection. There is also alarge Crystal LED display, made by Sony Corporation, inthe entrance lobby on the 1st ﬂoor, presenting brilliant
ultra-high-deﬁnition images of our collection andexhibition to visitors.

Digital Collection Wall

Advanced body scanner for enhanced security
To safeguard the artworks and ensure visitor safety, abody scanner able to detect hazardous items,
manufactured by Evolv Technology Inc., has been
installed in front of the elevator on the 3rd ﬂoor which
will lead to the galleries upstairs. As well as detecting
metallic objects, the millimeter-wave scanner is theworld's ﬁrst system capable of detecting nonmetals
and liquid explosives.

Audio guideWith WiFi available throughout the museum, visitors
can download the Artizon Museum app and use theirsmartphones to access an audio guide to the museum
as well as background information about the artworks.
Visitors are asked to bring earphones.

Ticketing system
Entry to the new Artizon Museum will be at designateddates and times, allowing visitors to enjoy a more
comfortable viewing experience. Tickets much bepurchased in advance from the museum website(www.artizon.museum). Tickets went on sale on
November 1, 2019.

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Working with Art Research Center

ISHIBASHI FOUNDATION ART RESEARCH CENTER

In 2015, Ishibashi Foundation built Art Research Center(ARC) in Machida City in the western suburbs of Tokyo.
This is a two-story satellite facility built on seismic
isolation bearings and with a total ﬂoor span of
1,986m ARC is built for storing, restoring andphotographing of artworks. A library is also available
for researchers and various kinds of learning programs
are provided to children, students and art lovers of all
generations in the multi-purpose hall. Now themuseum is complete, the two facilities will work
together to support all activities of Artizon Museum.

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Attachment 1

The Ishibashi Foundation Collection: New Acquisitions
Our founder, Ishibashi Shojiro, donated his private collection of the French Impressionist and Japanesemodern paintings in 1952 forming the core of todays Ishibashi Foundation Collection. The Foundation

continued to collect works of art during the following decades and even continued to acquire moreworks after the museum closed for reconstruction in 2015. New acquisitions will be shown at theinaugural exhibition and in other forthcoming exhibitions.
The newly acquired art include 184 paintings and sculptures. As of October 1, 2019, the total number ofartworks in the Ishibashi Foundation Collection comprised approximately 2,800 items. The Foundation
also initiated a new collection of artist's portrait photographs which includes 1,200 items.
While expanding the collection of Impressionist and Japanese modern painting for which ourpredecessor, the Bridgestone Museum of Art, was renowned, we have a greatly broadened horizons of
the collection today with the twentieth century abstract art, contemporary art, Greco-Roman art andantiquities, Japanese early modern art (from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries), andartists portrait photographs.
Following is to summarize the highlights of the new acquisitions in nine groups, introducing
outstanding works in each group and commentaries on the works in detail.

[1] Works by Paul Klee
The museum has acquired a collection of twenty-four works by Paul Klee. This group of works covers
the artist's oeuvre from 1915, when he rose to fame after participating in the Secession exhibition and
the Blue Rider group, through the 1920s when he taught at the Bauhaus, until 1939, the year before his
death. The works employ a variety of techniques with a focus on oil painting. This collection will be
exhibited for the ﬁrst time in Special Section: New Acquisitions: Works by Paul Klee, from Saturday, April
18, 2020.
from Saturday, April 18, 2020.

Paul KLEE, Abstract Architecture, 1915

Paul KLEE, The Shepherd, 1929

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[2] Wassily Kandinsky
The museum has acquired Self-Illuminating, a work by Wassily Kandinsky, who made a signiﬁcant markon the history of modern art, both as the father of abstract painting and an important theoretician. The
painting will be shown at the inaugural exhibition, Emerging Artscape: The State of Our Collection, from
Saturday, January 18 to Tuesday, March 31, 2020.

Wassily KANDINSKY Self-Illuminating 1924

[3] Women Impressionists
The museum has acquired works by four female painters who were leading Impressionists: Berthe
Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Marie Bracquemond, and Eva Gonzalès. Works by Morisot and Cassatt will beshown at the inaugural exhibition, Emerging Artscape: The State of Our Collection, from Saturday,
January 18 to Tuesday, March 31, 2020. Five works by Morisot, Cassatt, Bracquemond, and Gonzalès will
be introduced in the Special Section: Women Impressionists, in the Selections from the Ishibashi
Foundation Collection, scheduled to open on Tuesday, June 30, 2020.

Mary CASSATT, The Sun Bath (After the Bath) , 1901

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[4] Cubist Painters
Cubism was the most important movement in European art in the early twentieth century. The museum
has thus acquired works by the Cubist painters who were involved in the development of abstract
painting. Forming a comprehensive whole, this group includes works by Picasso and Georges Braque,
who together were the driving force behind Cubism, and Juan Gris, who continued to develop their
theories. Some of these works, including those by Braque and Gris, will be shown for the ﬁrst time at theinaugural exhibition, Emerging Artscape: The State of Our Collection, from Saturday, January 18 toTuesday, March 31, 2020.

Georges Braque, Pedestal Table, 1911

Juan Gris, Journal and Opened Book,© ADAGP, Paris & JASPAR, Tokyo, 2019
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1913-14[5] Painting and Sculpture after World War II
The museum has strengthened our collection of paintings and three-dimensional works from thepostwar period in Europe, North America, and Australia. Some of these works will be shown for the ﬁrst
time at the inaugural exhibition, Emerging Artscape: The State of Our Collection, from Saturday, January
18 to Tuesday, March 31, 2020. Items of special interest include Alberto Giacometti's 1958 portrait
Yanaihara, Untitled by Mark Rothko, dated 1969, and Umberto Boccioni's Unique Forms of Continuity inSpace from 1913 (cast in 1972).
Marcel Duchamp's From or by Marcel Duchamp or Rose Sélavy (Box in a Valise) Series B from 1952 will
also be introduced in the 2020 Selections from the Ishibashi Foundation Collection exhibition.

Marcel Duchamp,
From or by Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy [Box in a Valise], Series B
1952, 1946 (pencil drawing)©Association Marcel Duchamp / ADAGP, Paris & JASPAR, Tokyo, 2019
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[6] Australian Art
The museum has added to its collection of contemporary Aboriginal art from Australia. The FourArchers by Ginger Reilly Munduwalawala and Balibal by Emily Ngarnal Evans, among others, will beshown in the Selections from the Ishibashi Foundation Collection exhibitions in 2020-2021.
[7] Japanese Paintings
The museum has expanded its collection of postwar abstract painting by acquiring works by, among
others, Matsumoto Shunsuke. In addition to works by Tanaka Atsuko, Murakami Saburo, Masanobu
Masatoshi, and Uemae Chiyu, leading artists in the Gutai Group, we have also acquired important
paintings by Domoto Hisao, who worked in Paris shortly after the war, and Kusama Yayoi, whoworked in New York. These works will be shown to the public for the ﬁrst time at the inauguralexhibition, Emerging Artscape: The State of Our Collection, from Saturday, January 18 to Tuesday,
March 31, 2020.

Matsumoto Shunsuke, Canal View, 1943

[8] Early Modern Japanese Art
The facilities at the Artizon Museum include a new room for displaying Japanese folding screens andhanging scrolls. The museum has acquired pieces from Japan's early modern period with the focus on
the Rimpa School. Views in and around the City of Kyoto will be on display for the ﬁrst time at theinaugural exhibition, Emerging Artscape: The State of Our Collection, from Saturday, January 18 toTuesday, March 31, 2020. The Peacocks and Hollyhocks folding screen by Ogata Korin will be on
display during the Rimpa and Impressionism: Arts Produced by Urbicultures, East and West exhibition,from Saturday, November 14, 2020, to Sunday, January 24, 2021.

Views in and around the City of Kyoto, Edo period, 17th century

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[9] Collection of Artists Portrait Photographs
The museum has acquired approximately 700 vintage portrait photographs of Western artists of
the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries for its collection. We have also acquired a collection
consisting of 206 photographs by Anzai Shigeo, who has documented the contemporary scene inJapan and overseas since 1970. Another acquisition is a collection of 236 items by Tom Haar, whotook portraits of Japanese artists working in New York in the 1970s. Some of these photographs
will be shown in the summer of 2021.

Tournachont Félix dit Nadar, Manet (Edouard),
The latter half of 19th century

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Attachment 2

Artizon Museum 2020 Exhibition Schedule

Inaugural Exhibition

Emerging Artscape: The State of Our
Collection
Gallery: 4-6F
Open 18 January (Saturday) to 31 March (Tuesday)
An art museum serves as a device for conveying what
it means to be human in an easy-to-understand way
through forms of art. Human beings have created art
over many hundreds of millennia. It is that unbroken
chain that has brought us to the present and sets us ona path to evolve into the future. Humankind has left asuperlative legacy in literature, music and theater, but
surely there is no other area than art where, at a
glance, we can instantly feel all our capabilities andpotentials. It is art that teaches us about an exceedingability of human creativity that we all have. While theWassily KANDINSKY Self-Illuminating 1924

museum has been closed, the Ishibashi Foundationcollection has continued to grow and has now
amassed around 2,800 works over more than 65 years.
Its history of creativity, extending from antique art to
the 21st century, can provide you with an environment
to appreciate the moment when art is created.
Through the selected approximately 200 pieces, we
invite you to experience works that weave together
human history, linking the present moment with thepast and the future.

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Jam Session
The Ishibashi Foundation Collection x Tomoko Konoike

Tomoko Konoike: FLIP
Gallery: 6F
Open 18 April (Saturday) to 21 June (Sunday)
Our Jam Sessions exhibitions are joint performancesby the Ishibashi Foundation Collection andcontemporary artists. For the ﬁrst Jam Session, we
have invited Tomoko Konoike, an energetic artist who
continues to question the fundamentals of art, toattempt what had not been possible in a museum until
now, to experiment with expanding potential, and topresent the art ecosystem as a total installation.
As animals, each human being grasps the world withtotally different perceptions. We see the world throughour own umwelts. None are the same. No words are
identical. No light is identical. If the arts prepare

At the Setouchi Triennale 2019

themselves for that and address it honestly, then intime a new ecosystem, ﬁlled with the senses, for asmall organism, will begin to function. Instead of
substituting illusions for words, let us feel our way tothe small things we encounter daily, play, and quietly
do our work. (Konoike)

Exhibition in Japan of the Japan Pavilion at the 58th
International Art Exhibition‒La Biennale di Venezia

Cosmo-Eggs
Gallery: 5F
Open 18 April (Saturday) to 21 June (Sunday)
Ishibashi Shojiro, founder of the Bridgestone Museumof Art and the Ishibashi Foundation, contributed theconstruction of the Japan Pavilion at the Venice

At the Japan Pavilion, Venice

Biennale in 1956. Moreover, the Ishibashi Foundation

Photo: ArchiBIMing, provided by the Japan Foundation

has provided continuous support for the Japan Pavilion
in recent years. To introduce the exhibitions in the Japan
Pavilion to a wider audience in Japan, the Artizon
Museum presents welcome home exhibitons.
For the 58th International Art Exhibition, which opened
in May, 2019 (lasting from May 11 to November 24), the

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Japan Pavilion carried out Cosmo-Eggs, an exhibition,
curated by Hattori Hiroyuki, of work by four artists infour very different ﬁelds: an artist, composer,
anthropologist, and architect. For the welcome home
exhibition, the curator and the artists have worked
together to reconstruct Cosmo-Eggs, to introduce it
here.
Artists: Motoyuki Shitamichi (artist), Taro Yasuno(composer), Toshiaki Ishikura (anthropologist),
Fuminori Nousaku (architect)

Monet: Questioning Nature
A special exhibition from the Musée d'Orsay and Muséede l'Orangerie
Galleries: 5-6F
Open July 11 (Saturday) to October 25 (Sunday)
Claude Monet 1891 Claude Monet was fascinated by
the beauty of natural light and devoted his life to
exploring light and searching for ways to express it. The
landscapes that this most famous of the Impressionists
created upended the assumptions behind traditional
painting and communicate a new era's world view andits poetry. The heart of this exhibition is a group ofworks from the Musée d'Orsay's world-renowned
Monet collection, selected to present a comprehensive
view of Monet's landscape paintings. Examining his
work by periodLa Havre, Argenteuil, Vétheuil, Venice,and Givernyit carefully explores what Monet saw ineach of those places and periods, how he depicted it,
and the themes embedded in the resulting paintings.
The result reveals the distinctive qualities of Monet s

Claude MONET, Row of Poplars, 1891
Photo © Musée d'Orsay, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais /Patrice Schmidt / distributed by AMF

landscape style.

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Rimpa and Impressionism:

Arts Produced by Urban Cultures, East andWest
Galleries: 5-6F
Open 14 November (Saturday) to 24 January (Sunday),2021
Rimpa and Impressionism: the key word here is urban
culture, practices and problems peculiar to urban life.
The Rimpa School was born as the art of townsmen in
Kyoto, Japan's imperial capital, through the work ofartists such as Tawaraya Sotatsu in the earlyseventeenth century and Ogata Korin in the earlyeighteenth century. Carried on in the early nineteenth
century by Sakai Hoitsu and Suzuki Kiitsu in Edo (today's
Tokyo), the shogun's headquarters and defacto capital

Attributed to TAWARAYA Sotatsu, Shikishiof Japan, Rimpa continued to develop as an urban art

Illustrating The Tales of Ise, Altair ,Edo Period

form with a distinctive decorative aesthetic.
Impressionism, which centered on Paris, the capital ofFrance, was a new modern art movement in Europe,with the Impressionists, including Manet, Monet, Degas,
Renoir, and Cézanne, frankly expressing both theirimpressions of the outside world received through theireveryday experiences and their delight in urban living.
In Rimpa and Impressionism, visitors will enjoy, throughthe works of art born of urbicultures East and West, inJapan and Europe, their culmination in a sophistocatedaesthetic unique to major cities.
Selections from the Ishibashi Foundation Collection
The Ishibashi Foundation collection presently numbers
some 2,800 works. Throughout the year, the museum
will introduce a variety of works from the collection,
including Impressionist and twentieth-century Western

Berthe MORISOT, Woman and Child on the Balcony,

paintings, modern Japanese paintings from the Meiji

1872

period on, postwar Abstract paintings, classic Japaneseand East Asian art, and Greek and Roman art.
aesthetic unique to major cities.

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Selections from the Ishibashi Foundation Collection
The Ishibashi Foundation collection presently numbers some 2,800 works. Throughout the year, themuseum will introduce a variety of works from the collection, including Impressionist andtwentieth-century Western paintings, modern Japanese paintings from the Meiji period on, postwar
Abstract paintings, classic Japanese and East Asian art, and Greek and Roman art.

Special Section
Part of the fourth ﬂoor gallery will house this special section, in which three phases of displays of works
from the collection are planned, as described below.

New Acquisitions: Works by Paul Klee
Open 18 April (Saturday) to 21 June (Sunday)
This exhibition will display all twenty-four recently
acquired works by Paul Klee. This group of works covers
most aspects of the artist's oeuvre, from the 1910s,
when he rose to fame after participating in theSecession exhibition and the Blue Rider group, throughthe 1920s when he taught at the Bauhaus until 1939,
the year before his death.

Women Impressionists

Paul KLEE, The Shepherd, 1929

Open 30 June (Tuesday) to 25 October (Sunday)
Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Eva Gonzalès, and Marie
Bracquemond: This exhibition introduces the Artizon
Museum's new collection of work by women
Impressionists.
Aoki Shigeru, Sakamoto Hanjiro, Koga Harue:

Artists from Kurume
Open 3 November (Tuesday) to 24 January (Sunday)
Aoki Shigeru, Sakamoto Hanjiro, and Koga Harue areamong the many stars of modern JapaneseMary Cassatt, The Sun Bath (After the Bath) , 1901

Western-style painting that Kurume has produced. This
exhibition focuses on artists associated with Kurume
and introduces new acquisitions, including Aoki
Shigeru's Sketch of a Bugaku Mask, which has not been
displayed for many years, and the last work by
Sakamoto Hanjiro.

Aoki Shigeru, Sketch of a Bugaku Mask, ca. 1900-02

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