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The National Museum of Western Art (国立西洋美術館, Kokuritsu Seiyō Bijutsukan, lit. "National Western Art Museum", NMWA) is the premier public art gallery in Japan specializing in art from the Western tradition. The museum is in the Ueno Park in Taitō, central Tokyo. It received 1,162,345 visitors in 2016. [1]
This is an incomplete list of artists represented in the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Kōjirō Matsukata (松方 幸次郎, Matsukata Kōjirō, January 17, 1865 – June 24, 1950) was a Japanese businessman who, in parallel to his professional activities, devoted his life and fortune to amassing a collection of Western art which, he hoped, would become the nucleus of a Japanese national museum focused particularly on masterworks of the Western art tradition.
Japan Tokyo: National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo [1] Japan Tokyo Suntory Museum of Art [1] Japan Tokyo Tokyo National Museum: Art, archaeology and history [1] Japan Tokyo Yamatane Museum: 1,800 Japan Osaka National Museum of Art, Osaka: 8,200 (As of February 2022) Modern art [3] Japan Tokyo Sumida Hokusai Museum: Ukiyoe prints; P. Morse ...
Some art market commentators speculated that doubt about the attribution to Vermeer may have contributed to the relatively low price. [14] [15] From March 2015 it has been on display in the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo, labelled as "attributed to Johannes Vermeer". This appears to be a long-term loan to the museum from a private ...
The term "National Treasure" has been used in Japan to denote cultural properties since 1897. [1] The definition and the criteria have changed since the inception of the term. These paintings adhere to the current definition, and were designated national treasures when the Law for the Protection of Cultural Properties was implemented on June 9 ...
Takahashi held a position as a Curator at the National Museum of Western Art, Japan from 1980 to 2006. He served as a visiting fellow at the museum opening office of the Musée d'Orsay , Paris from 1984 to 1986, dispatched as part of the Overseas Researcher Program of the Ministry of Education, Japan.
The Museum of Western Art may refer to: The National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo, Japan; The Museum of Western Art (Kerrville, Texas) in Kerrville, Texas, United States; The Leanin' Tree Museum of Western Art in Boulder, Colorado, United States; the Museum of Western and Oriental Art in Kyiv, Ukraine