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Opening Exhibition of the Bridgestone Gallery

Opening Exhibition. Following the opening ceremony on May 8, the museum opened to the public on May 11. The exhibition included 55 paintings by Monet, Cézanne, and other Western artists, 55 modern Japanese Western-style paintings, and 9 sculptures.

Some Newly Discovered Ukiyo-e Prints: The Impressionists and Ukiyo-e

This exhibition featured 58 works by 20 artists, including Sharaku, Hokusai, and Hiroshige. Almost all were from a private collection in Tokyo and had never been exhibited.
The exhibition was also presented in a way to highlight the relationship between French Impressionism and Ukiyo-e.

Paintings Formerly in the Matsukata Collection

Exhibition held to commemorate the third anniversary of the death of the great Western art collector Matsukata Kojiro. It included 58 oils and pastels (60 or more, according to the catalogue). It attracted great interest for displaying many Impressionist masterworks for the first time in 30 years.

Lucien Coutaud

29 oils, watercolors, gouaches, and 40 sketches, one tapestry, and 30 etchings, a total of 100 works, were exhibited in this Lucien Coutaud retrospective. It traveled from the Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura.

Contemporary American Paintings

23 small works from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Denman, who were then residing in Tokyo. Oils, watercolors and gouaches by De Kooning, Feininger, O'Keeffe, Morris Graves, Ben Shahn, and Mark Tobey.

Paintings from the Fujiyama Collection

53 works by Western and modern Japanese Western-style painters from the collection of entrepreneur, later politician, Fujiyama Aiichiro. Widely acclaimed, this exhibition included works by Renoir, Matisse, and Picasso alongside works by Koide Narashige and Yasui Sotaro.

Aoki Shigeru Retrospective Exhibition

78 works from our collection, showcasing in particular A Gift of the Sea and Paradise Under the Sea. The first postwar retrospective of Aoki's art, it traced connections among his surviving works. The exhibition also included two Saturday lectures. The instructors for the first were Aoki's orphaned son, the musician Fukuda Rando, and Aoki's friend the artist Masamune Tokusaburo; the instructor for the second was Kawakita Michiaki, who had continued to conduct research on Aoki since before World War II.

Matisse Memorial Exhibition

A memorial exhibition was also held in 1954,
after Matisse’s death, using works from our collection.

Fujishima Takeji Memorial Exhibition

Composed of works from our collection, this exhibition was held to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Fujishima's death. The catalogue is missing and the composition of the exhibition is unclear.

Fujita Tsuguharu Exhibition

Comprising oils, sketches, and prints from our collection, this exhibition included 20 of the 26 etchings from La Rivière enchantée by René Héron de Villefosse.

Paintings Formerly in the Fukushima Collection

This exhibition reconstituted the collection of Fukushima Shigetaro, a Japanese collector of French modern art. There were a total of 63 works in the exhibition. At the Saturday Lecture, a discussion was organized among Mr. and Mrs. Fukushima Shigetaro and Umehara Ryuzaburo.

Hiraga Kamesuke: A Japanese Painter in France

In 1906 Hiraga immigrated to America. Then in 1925 he moved to France, where he lived for most of his life. For this solo exhibition organized by our museum, he returned to Japan for the first time in fifty years. Among the works on display was The Streets of Old Paris, with which he became the first Japanese awarded a gold medal at the Salon in France. Ishibashi Shojiro added it to his collection because of the artist's wish that it finds a home in Japan.

Contemporary American Prints

This exhibition presented 48 works by 21 established and up-and-coming artists, selected by the Print Club in Philadelphia, which has a printmaking tradition.

Henry Miller: Watercolors

This exhibition introduced 40 watercolors by Henry Miller, the author made famous by his Tropic of Cancer. Many have pointed out the influence of Chagall on his art.

Contemporary Italian Art

75 works (oils, tempera) by 10 Italian artists including Mario Sironi, Giorgio de Chirico, Massimo Campigli, and Renato Guttuso. The Troubadour by de Chirico, acquired by the museum in 1962, was shown for the first time in Japan at this exhibition.

2nd Exhibition of Paintings Formerly in the Matsukata Collection

This exhibition, held 5 years after the death of Matsukata Kojiro, also celebrated the visit to Japan by the French architect Le Corbusier, who designed the National Museum of Western Art, which had acquired the Matsukata Collection.

Yasui Sotaro Memorial Exhibition

This exhibition was the first large-scale retrospective of Yasui Sotaro, who had passed away the previous year. Held jointly with the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, in included 285 oil paintings, plus cover illustrations and sketches.

1st Exhibition of the Groupe Franco-Japonais de l'Art Concret

Organized with support from the French Embassy, it included paintings in oils, pastels, and gouaches as well as sketches, dry lacquer carvings, lithographs, copperplate engravings, and other works by Paul Augustin Aizpiri, Hayashi Takeshi, Hasegawa Kiyoshi, and others.

Prints by Antoni Clavé

The 40 lithographs shown in this exhibition included Woman with a cage as well as 39 illustrations for Gargantua (1955). All are works in our collection.

Sculptures and Paintings by Bourdelle

This exhibition included 32 sculptures and 30 works in pen, watercolor and pencil on loan from the Musée Antoine Bourdelle, Paris. Including studies for his most famous monuments, it provided a comprehensive overview of his oeuvre.

Recent Works in France and Italy by Umehara Ryuzaburo

In 1952, Umehara, who had been invited to become an international judge for the first postwar Venice Biennale, moved to Europe, where he frequently pursued his art during trips to various European countries.This exhibition included 38 new landscapes painted between June of the previous year and the spring of the year in which the exhibition was held during visits to Naples, Venice, Antibes and Cannes.

Previously Unexhibited Works from Private Collections

This exhibition included 29 paintings (oils, watercolors, sketches), 19 prints (all lithographs), and 7 sculptures (bronze, marble, wood), 55 works in all, from private collections around Japan. Also included were a dozen or so works, including Degas pastels and bronze, and Greek sculptures purchased by Ishibashi Shojiro at the end of the previous year and shown for the first time in Japan.

Koide Narashige Memorial Exhibition

This exhibit included Koide Narashige’s Tokyo School of the Arts graduation work, Silver Fan (collection of the preparatory office for the Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts), The Family Portrait of N (Ohara Art Museum), and other masterworks as well as his last work Landscape with Withered Tree, for a total of 59 oil paintings, 4 watercolors, 8 sketches, 11 paintings on glass, and 7 works in India ink, 89 in all. This exhibition inspired the acquisition of Self-Portrait with a Hat for our collection.

Sakata Kazuo Memorial Exhibition

Venue: Lecture Hall
This retrospective featured a total of 89 works (59 oil paintings, 4 watercolors, 8 drawings, 11 paintings on glass, and 7 works in India ink).

Morris Graves

Morris Graves, a painter active on the US West Coast, was inspired during his visits to Japan and other parts of East Asia to produce works deeply influenced by his interest in Asia. This exhibition featured 40 of his favorites, with special attention paid to 10 from the collection of the Seattle Art Museum.

Folding Screens by Munakata Shiko

Venue: Lecture Hall
This exhibition featured the prints that suddenly brought Munakata into the limelight when shown at the Sao Paulo Biennale (1955) and Venice Biennale (1956). The complete series of 10 panels for folding screens were displayed unfolded.

［2nd Exhibition of］Works by Yamamoto Toyoichi

Venue: Lecture Hall
This second exhibition followed the first in 1955. Only one sculpture, Face of a Girl, was in bronze. The other 16 were all made using dry lacquer techniques. Included were works from the Bath, Bathing Woman, and Etude series.

The Nouvelle Ecole de Paris

The Nouvelle Ecole de Paris was a group of abstract artists who were active in Paris after World War II. The exhibition consisted of 49 works by 22 artists, including Atlan, Hartung, Schneider, Soulages, Dubuffet, Fautrier, Sato Kei, and Sugai Kumi.

Prints by Picasso

This exhibition consisted of 46 copperplate engravings from the Vollard Suite, created in the 1930s, and 99 lithographs from 1945 on. It toured 10 museums, but its exhibition at our museum alone also included 4 works from the collection and 2 oil paintings on deposit with us.

Thomas George

Venue: Lecture Hall
This solo exhibition showcased the work of Thomas George, an American painter living in Kyoto, who had moved to Japan in the autumn of 1956. The artist was introduced by art critic Kubo Sadajiro. The exhibition included 20 oils painted while the artist was living in Japan (1956, 1957), together with several gouaches and sketches. Night Image, one of these works, was donated to the museum.

Contemporary World Art

This exhibition, which was organized by the critic Michel Tapié, was a significant factor in introducing Art Informel to Japan.

Japanese Abstract Art

This exhibition showcased the Japan Abstract Art Club. The 42 works shown comprised work by Isamu Noguchi as well as 10 Club members including Onchi Koshiro, Yamaguchi Takeo, and Murai Masanari.

Yamamoto Kyujin

Venue: Lecture Hall
This solo exhibition of works by Japanese painting artist Yamamoto Kyujin included 24 paintings ranging from Mountain (1952) to Path on Snowy Slope (1957), of which 13 were new paintings produced in 1957.

Rouault Memorial Exhibition

Rouault died on February 13, 1958, at the age of eighty-seven. The exhibition included 77 works consisting of 33 oil paintings, 10 gouaches, 3 watercolors, one pastel, and 30 prints.

Contemporary Philippine Art

Venue: Lecture Hall
The exhibition included 19 paintings, 5 sculptures, and 2 medals introducing 14 artists from the Philippines who were prominent in the 1950s and were strongly influenced by American art.

Saeki Yuzo Memorial Exhibition

Saeki Yuzo died aged thirty in 1928 in Paris. This exhibition, which featured 71 of his works, was held to mark the 30th anniversary of his death.

Haniwa

For a brief moment in the postwar era, there was a quiet boom, in Japan and abroad, in haniwa (terracotta figures from Japan’s Kofun period). Of the 40 works, 6 were important cultural properties. 5 items were added.

Nomiyama Gyoji

Venue: Lecture Hall
This exhibition presented 17 oil paintings and 10 gouaches and other works Nomiyama produced while in France (1952-64). Among them, his Man on a Crag led to his winning the second annual Yasui Award (1958).

Exhibition of Paul Klee's Paintings and Prints

This exhibition brought together 17 works by Klee in collections in Japan. To introduce his highly varied creative output more fully, the exhibition also include 26 reproductions as well. While small in scale, the exhibition achieved a major media response.

George Biddle:Lithographs

Venue: Lecture Hall
This exhibition of 50 lithographs by artist George Biddle (1885-1973), who was active in America before World War II, was scheduled to coincide with Biddle's visit to Japan. The artist donated his Bull and Cow to the museum.

Jean Lurçat

Solo exhibition showcasing the work of French painter and tapestry maker Jean Lurçat. The 4 tapestries included Emerald Pheasant and Night Begins. There were also 25 prints including hand-colored lithograph Cock, and 5 watercolors.

Exhibition Celebrating the Re-opening of the Renovated Museum

The total renovation of the museum, the first since it opened, was completed. The total floor space of the museum was expanded from 1,320㎡ to 2,413㎡. A museum-only entrance was located on the Yaesu Avenue side of the Bridgestone Building, its presence signaled by Victoria, a marble sculpture by Christian Daniel Rauch, installed outside the entrance.

Marquet

The exhibition featured 60 oil paintings, 14 watercolors,
50 sketches and 7 illustrated books.

5th Exhibition of Yasui Award Candidates / Yasui Sotaro Memorial Exhibition

This exhibition was held at the Bridgestone Museum of Art, since the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo was closed for renovation. 70 of 100 representational oil paintings submitted by 56 artists were displayed, and Takahashi Shu’s Moon and Path was awarded the Yasui Prize. Since this was the 5th annual Yasui Prize, 21 works by Yasui Sotaro were also exhibited.

Masterpieces from the Collection: Works Selected for Exhibition in Paris

This exhibition presented 50 works (of which 8 were on deposit from the Matsukata and other collections) shown at the La Peinture française de Corot à Braque dans la Collection Ishibashi de Tokyo (the so-called Return to Paris exhibition at the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris in 1962.

La Peinture Française de Corot à Braque dans la Collection Ishibashi de Tôkyô

Venue: Musée National d'Art Moderne
The first overseas exhibition of the Ishibashi Collection was held in 1962 at the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris. Called “the homecoming exhibition,” it elicited a huge response in France.

Contemporary American Paintings From the S.C. Johnson ＆ Son, Inc. Collection

One painting each by artists working in a variety of styles, from Andrew Wyeth, a realist, to Adolf F. Reinhardt, a purely abstract artist, were borrowed from the Johnson Collection for this exhibition.

Contemporary Brazilian Prints

This exhibition introduced, for the first time in Japan, 62 works by 14 contemporary print artists working in Brazil.

J.M.W. Turner

This exhibition consisted of 62 watercolors and 4 oil paintings on loan from the British Museum. The art historian Kenneth Clark put considerable energy into its planning.

Kuroda Seiki Retrospective Exhibition

This exhibition featured 98 of Kuroda's works (78 oil paintings, 3 watercolors and 17 charcoal drawings), as well as related artifacts (15 sketchbooks, letters, paint boxes, an easel and chair).

Paintings Formerly in the Fukushima Collection

This exhibition held in connection with the 7th anniversary of the death of art critic Fukushima Shigetaro included 49 works, with a primary focus on Rouault. Matisse, and Derain, together with the French and English-language art magazine Formes published by Fukushima. It showcased the many-sided talents of this eminent art critic and stimulated reassessment of the sharpness of his critical gaze in numerous publications.

Fujishima Takeji Retrospective Exhibition

Featuring 170 paintings, as well as illustrated books and photographs, the biggest Fujishima exhibition held up to that time, it featured works which have not been exhibited since, including Sweet Fragrance, Rising Sun Illuminating the Six Steps and Memorial Sketchbook for Butterflies.

Asai Chu Retrospective Exhibition

This exhibition of around 180 of the works of Asai Chu—the largest exhibition to be held in Tokyo since the painter’s death—presented an opportunity to gather together the entire body of his work and, in particular, to reappraise his bright and colorful watercolors.

The Museum's Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: Aoki Shigeru

This was the biggest Aoki exhibition ever held at the time with a total of 215 works, including 69 oil paintings, 23 watercolors, 100 sketches, and 22 additional works such as Karuta. This exhibition, which lasted 38 days, attracted 50,000 visitors.

The Museum's Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: Aoki Shigeru

This was the biggest Aoki exhibition ever held at the time with a total of 215 works, including 69 oil paintings, 23 watercolors, 100 sketches, and 22 additional works such as Karuta. This exhibition, which lasted 38 days, attracted 50,000 visitors.

Kuniyoshi Yasuo Retrospective Exhibition

This retrospective was a traveling exhibition that was held in 3 different countries: the United States, Japan (Tokyo, Nagoya and Kobe), and Canada. The 160 works on show, which included oil paintings, caseins, sketches and prints, covered every aspect of Kuniyoshi's art.

Kuniyoshi Yasuo Retrospective Exhibition

This retrospective was a traveling exhibition that was held in 3 different countries: the United States, Japan (Tokyo, Nagoya and Kobe), and Canada. The 160 works on show, which included oil paintings, caseins, sketches and prints, covered every aspect of Kuniyoshi's art.

The museum's Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Exhibition: Aoki Shigeru, Sakamoto Hanjiro, and Their Circle

The Ishibashi Museum of Art’s closure for expansion and renovation was the occasion for a special exhibition to commemorate the 25th anniversary with works by Aoki Shigeru, Sakamoto Hanjiro, and other modern Japanese Western-style artists.
A group of works from the Ishibashi Museum of Art was supplemented by 10 or more from our collection.

Yasui Sotaro Retrospective Exhibition

Yasui Sotaro established his own unique and modern style of realism in the world of Japanese Western-style painting. This was the first large-scale retrospective of Yasui’s works with the exception of an exhibition held soon after his death some 20 years earlier.

Masterpieces from the Hiroshima Museum of Art

For this exhibition, the Bridgestone Museum of Art and the Hiroshima Museum of Art lent each other works from their Western modern art collections (including some works held on deposit at the Bridgestone Museum of Art) to hold simultaneous exhibitions on a similar scale featuring 81 oils, watercolors and pastels ranging from Delacroix and the Barbizon School, to the Impressionists, Matisse, Picasso, and Buffet.

Bridgestone Museum of Art Thirtieth Anniversary Exhibition: Italian Drawings from the Galleria degli Uffizi

Including works by Renaissance masters such as Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael, the exhibition provided a comprehensive overview of Italian drawing from the 15th to the 17th century.

Bridgestone Museum of Art Thirtieth Anniversary Exhibition: Revolution in Figurative Painting from Cézanne to Present Day

The theme of the exhibition was landscape. It featured some 60 works by painters who were active in France from the early years of the 20th century until the 1980s, including non-French artists such as Picasso and Fujita Tsuguharu.

Bridgestone Museum of Art Thirtieth Anniversary Exhibition: Rembrandt from the Hermitage Museum

This exhibition consisted of 10 oil paintings, 2 drawings and 100 etchings from the Rembrandt collection of the celebrated Hermitage Museum.

Shigeru Aoki and the Late Victorian Art

English art from the latter half of the 19th century had considerable influence on Japanese Western-style painting around the turn of the century. This exhibition was the first attempt to demonstrate the relationship by hanging their works side-by-side with the Pre-Raphaelites. It included a total of 86 works: 50 by Aoki.

Masters of Modern Japanese Western-style Painting and French Painters

This exhibition focused on 3 specific master-pupil relationships, displaying their works side-by-side: Collin and Kuroda Seiki, Kume Keiichiro; Laurens and Kanokogi Takeshiro, Nakamura Fusetsu; and Cormon, Carolus-Duran and Fujishima Takeji.

Oka Shikanosuke

Held 6 years after Oka passed away, it was his first posthumous exhibition, and the only retrospective of his to be held in the 1980s.
It exhibited 106 oil paintings.

Harue Koga: The Development of a Japanese Avant-Garde Painter

This exhibition featuring watercolors and 47 oil paintings, 103 works in all, examined how Koga Harue evolved as his art changed in response to the cumulative influences of Cézanne, Cubism, Expressionism, Constructivism, Klee and Surrealism.

Italian XVIIth-century Drawings from the Uffizi Gallery in Florence

Focused on 17th century Italy, this exhibition consisted of 80 drawings lent by the Uffizi Gallery.

The Prints of Pieter Bruegel the Elder

This exhibition introduced 95 pieces identified as Pieter Bruegel the Elder's work, along with one full-scale photograph of a woodcut. It was the first to provide a comprehensive overview of his prints.

Gustave Courbet

Thanks to the cooperation of the Musée d'Orsay, as well as other museums in Japan and overseas, this was the first Japanese exhibition to provide a comprehensive introduction to Courbet.The 56 day exhibition was seen by more than 170,000 visitors, setting a new attendance record.

Prints of Edvard Munch

This exhibition, which was organized in conjunction with Mr. Ben Frija of Oslo's Galleri K, introduced 49 of Munch's major works.

Masterpieces from the Collection of the Menard Art Museum

This exhibition featured 111 works by 59 artists (17 modern Western paintings, 7 modern Western sculptures, 63 modern Japanese Western-style paintings, 19 Japanese paintings and 5 modern Japanese sculptures) selected from the more than 1,000 works collected by the Menard Art Museum during its twenty-year history. The selected works were from areas in which the Menard and Bridgestone collections overlap.

Masterworks: Paintings from the Bridgestone Museum of Art

Venue: Tennessee State Museum
Because the headquarters of Bridgestone Americas, Inc., is located in Tennessee, the Tennessee State Museum organized an exhibition of art from the Bridgestone Museum of Art collection. The exhibition included 58 oils by modern Western artists, to which 2 works by Kuniyoshi Yasuo were added, for a total of 60 works.

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Monet: A Retrospective

74 oil paintings spanning the artist's entire life provided
a full overview of Monet.The 49 day exhibition was seen by more than 310,000 visitors, setting a new attendance record.

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Aoki Shigeru

This exhibition, which included 20 works from the Ishibashi Museum of Art collection and 2 works from the Bridgestone Museum of Art collection, presented works including Self-Portrait, Seascape (Mera), Onamuchi-no-mikoto, and Paradise Under the Sea. It provided a rare opportunity to see almost the whole of the Ishibashi Foundation collection Aoki’s work in Tokyo.

Monticelli:
From the Collection of Mr.Tanimoto Hiroaki

This special exhibition was devoted to the work of Adolphe Monticelli, inviting reconsideration of this artist, whose work spanned 19th century Romanticism, Symbolism, and 20th century Expressionism. 48 exemplary works from the 100 collected by Monticelli collector Tanimoto Hiroaki were included in this exhibition.

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The Prints from the Art Magazine Pan

Pan was a pure art magazine that was published for a total of 21 issues from 1895 to 1900. The exhibition featured 97 original prints from the magazines in the Museum's collection.

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Starting Anew in the Meiji Period : A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings from the Hakubakai Group 1896-1911

Held to mark the 100th anniversary of the Hakubakai's founding, this exhibition examined what the significance of this group of artists was.
The exhibition featured a total of 136 works: 100 oil paintings, 4 watercolors, 1 pastel, 1 mosaic, 18 works in charcoal, and 12 woodcut prints.

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Self-Portraits of Koide Narashige

This exhibition brought together all 8 existing oil self-portraits of Koide Narashige, based around Self-Portrait with a Hat (Bridgestone Museum of Art) and The Family Portrait of N. (Ohara Museum of Art), and sought to examine what the portraits meant for the painter himself.

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Subjects and Images : Iconography of Classical Myths and Christian Legends

This exhibition featured a total of 74 works, some on loan and some from the Bridgestone Museum of Art's permanent collection, but all dealing with mythological and classical themes.The aim of the exhibition was to help the audience understand the iconography of the art.

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Yasui Sotaro: Covers for Bungeishunju Magazine

This exhibition featured Yasui’s original cover paintings for Bungeishunju and a further 10 cover paintings for Bungeishunju Special which Bungeishunju Ltd. keeps in deposit at the Bridgestone Museum of Art.

Reopened

The Museum was reopened after completion of the first large-scale renovation of its interior since 1959.

L’Estampe originale

L’Estampe originale was a portfolio of prints that was published between 1893 and 1895 in Paris. Of the 95 prints L’Estampe originale published, the exhibition featured 88 prints by 74 different artists, sculptors and print-makers. The exhibition also featured a further 10 prints from an earlier portfolio of the same name published in 1888, making for a total of 98 works.

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Glass and Ceramics of the Orient

The exhibition featured 13 pieces of glassware, 2 pieces of earthenware, and 44 ceramic objects excavated in the Orient and belonging to the Ishibashi Foundation.

Renoir: From Outsider to Old Master, 1870-1892

This exhibition aimed for the highest level of quality by narrowing its focus to a period of 20 years at the start of Renoir's career when he was still being experimental. It attracted over 330,000 visitors.

Koga Harue: Exploring the Origins of his Art through His Works and Materials

This exhibition was built around a core of paintings
belonging to the Ishibashi Museum of Art. Consisting of 81 works, including drawings, sketchbooks and notebooks,
it showed the creative process of this avant-garde artist.

Bridgestone Museum of Art Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition: Ishibashi Shojiro, Art Collector: From Aoki Shigeru and Sakamoto Hanjiro to Western Art

The Bridgestone Museum of Art and the Ishibashi Museum of Art conducted special research, both documentary and interview-based, on the formation of Ishibashi Shojiro’s art collection. This Exhibition featured the 34 Japanese Western-style paintings most of which belong to the Ishibashi Museum of Art. In the permanent collection space, 144 major works of the Bridgestone Museum of Art (excluding works on paper) were exhibited.

Bridgestone Museum of Art Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration: Fujishima Takeji Exhibition

This exhibition was planned to mark the Bridgestone Museum of Art's 50th anniversary. It was a major retrospective containing a total of 163 pieces.

Re-opening Exhibition

This exhibition to celebrate the Bridgestone Museum of Art’s re-opening filled all of its galleries with 195 works from the museum’s collection: 134 paintings, 32 sculptures, 8 prints, 21 ceramic works.

Léon Spilliaert

The first major exhibition in Japan devoted to the work of Léon Spilliaert, this exhibition focused on work from his most creative period (1900-1913). It displayed nearly 90 of his works on paper borrowed from the collections of Belgian museums and private collectors.

KOWAI! The Many Aspects of Fear

We invite you to look at the works exhibited, interpret them for yourselves, and enjoy the many varieties of fear.

Yamashita Shintaro Exhibition

This exhibition brought together approximately 80 superb works by Yamashita Shintaro, including paintings regarded as his masterpieces. It offered a comprehensive view of his work in the field of painting, including his collecting and repairing picture frames.

Masterly Visions From Manet, Monet and Renoir to Twentieth-Century Art

This exhibition included 130 oils, prints, watercolors, and 7 drawings, and 4 sculptures, 141 works in all. Rarely shown works were combined with masterpieces to demonstrate the appeal and distinctive character of our museum’s collection.

ZAO Wou-Ki

This exhibition aims to provide a retrospective of Zo Wou-ki’s work, tracing its increase in expressive strength from the early years right up to the present day. On show are some 70 works in different media - oil, watercolor, India ink drawings and prints - with a nucleus of 15 pieces from the Bridgestone Museum collection, as well as works from museums and private collections in France, Asia and the United States.

The Impressionists and 20th-Century Masters:
From Monet and Renoir to Picasso

This exhibition introduced the unique qualities and appeal of masters of Impressionism, 20th century art and Japanese Western-style painting, mainly through works in the Bridgestone Museum of Art.

The Impressionists and 20th-Century Masters:
From Monet and Renoir to Picasso

This exhibition introduced the unique qualities and appeal of masters of Impressionism, 20th century art and Japanese Western-style painting, mainly through works in the Bridgestone Museum of Art.

Two by Two Paris, Couples, and Lovers in Art

People in pairs have been a popular motif throughout the history of art. Two by Two comprised a total of 80 works in oil, watercolor, sculpture and print, the majority from the collection, with loans from other Japanese museums.

Aoki Shigeru: A Good Catch

Aoki's masterpiece, A Gift of the Sea, has achieved widespread popularity in Japan due to the richness of its mythological subject matter, and its approachable monumentality. This exhibition also provided an opportunity to see some 20 of Aoki Shigeru's masterpieces together.

Impressionism and 20th-Century Art

This exhibition featured an outstanding group of masterpieces from the Bridgestone Museum of Art. It introduced the collection's appealing and distinctive character in an easy-to-understand way. In addition, in celebrating this year as the 50th anniversary after Yasui Sotaro passed away, we exhibited 10 works of the artist from the collection of Ishibashi Foundation.

From Sesshu to Pollock: An Exhibition Marking the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Ishibashi Foundation

From classical Chinese and Japanese paintings and calligraphy to the Impressionists, Picasso, Matisse and over 10 newly acquired 20th century works, this exhibition presented the Ishibashi Foundation’s collection in all its diversity and dynamism.

From Sesshu to Pollock: An Exhibition Marking the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Ishibashi Foundation

From classical Chinese and Japanese paintings and calligraphy to the Impressionists, Picasso, Matisse and over 10 newly acquired 20th century works, this exhibition presented the Ishibashi Foundation’s collection in all its diversity and dynamism.

Sakamoto Hanjiro: An Exhibition Marking the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Ishibashi Museum of Art

Made up of 150 paintings and 20 materials, this exhibitionーthe first major Sakamoto retrospective for 24 yearsーpresented a comprehensive view of the oeuvre of this most dedicated artist.

Prism: Contemporary Australian Art

It brought together 73 works by 35 artists of diverse cultural backgrounds, from Indigenous artists to postwar immigrants, making possible a deeper understanding of contemporary Australian art and society.

Masterpieces from the Collection From Impressionism to Twentieth-Century Art

This exhibition featured an outstanding group of masterpieces from the Bridgestone Museum of Art. The roughly 150 works included paintings by Impressionists Monet and Renoir, and such modern artists as Matisse, Picasso, Pollock.

Masterpieces from the Collection From Impressionism to Twentieth-Century Art

The second exhibition held under the 'Look Closely' theme featured masterpieces from the Bridgestone Museum of Art collection including a wide range of art from the Impressionists to the 20th century, newly adding works by Modigliani, Picasso, and Fujita. 2 newly acquired works were also shown for the first time.

Aoki Shigeru: Sea and Mith and the Masterpieces from the Collection

A Gift of the Sea came to Tokyo. A total of 6 works by Aoki Shigeru, also including Paradise Under the Sea were shown together with other Impressionists and 20th-century works from the Bridgestone Museum of Art collection.

Cézanne Four Attractions

This exhibition focused mainly on works by Cézanne in the Bridgestone Museum of Art collection. The 29 works shown were organized according to four themes.

New Horizons, the collection of the Ishibashi Foundation

An exhibition of the Bridgestone Museum of Art's collection, with art from early 20th century to the present, it showed, for the first time, about 20 works newly added to the collection, by Kandinsky, Leger, Domoto, Shiraga, and others.

Oka Shikanosuke-Variations in Serenity

This exhibition spanned the career of the figurative painter Oka Shikanosuke with works from his early years to his very last paintings. To display his oeuvre, the works have been grouped along 9 themes that continued to occupy Oka during his artistic career.

Selections from the Collection From Impressionism to Abstract Paintings

This exhibition of 180 paintings and sculptures from the Bridgestone Museum of Art collection offered a delightful stroll, room by room, through these historic developments in the world of art.

Paris Passages-The changing faces of Paris

This exhibition presented 50 works from the Bridgestone Museum of Art collection that show Paris in the latter half of the 19th century. These artists wandered the Paris streets and depicted the city, each from his own distinctive, modernist perspective.

Selections from the Collection: From Impressionism to Abstract Paintings

This exhibition presented some 180 works selected from the collection of the Bridgestone Museum of Art. They included examples ranging from the Impressionists to contemporary artists, with paintings and sculptures by Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani, Paul Klee, Jackson Pollock, Fujishima Takeji, Fujita Tsuguharu, and other prominent artists.

Matisse and His Circles
-France Wild, France Refined

The exhibition explored the trajectories and aftereffects of Matisse and other French artists in his ambit, such as Rouault, Marquet, Dufy, and Braque. It introduced new forms born in the 20th century.

Colors of the Sea, Shapes of the Sea

This exhibition of 30 paintings from the collection on the subject of the sea introduced a variety of styles and viewpoints with which artists address the sea.

Portraits by Yasui Sotaro

This exhibition included important portraits by Yasui Sotaro, plus sketches and documentary photographs, in an exploration of his creative processes, his interactions with his models, and the influence of his relationships with those who commissioned his work.

Modern Japanese Art and Europe

In this exhibition, by attaching importance to the influence of the West and Japan each other, the stylistic development and the process of maturity in works by various artists from the Meiji period to postwar art were introduced.

Do you like Impressionism?

The theme of this exhibition was the Impressionists, who, in the 1870s, abandoned the Academic style that had dominated painting, and the Post-Impressionists. It was composed of about 170 works from our collection.

Henry Moore-Forms of Life

This exhibition introduced, in addition to 6 sculptures, 40 works on paper, including pastel, watercolors, and lithographs. The exhibition includes works on paper addressing the Reclining Figure and Mother and Child themes that Moore pursued throughout his life.

Image of the Seine

This exhibition offered the opportunity to trace geographically the modern history of painting as well as to explore how these artists expressed their images of the Seine.

Why is it masterwork?

This exhibition of works from the museum’s collection focused on 12 preeminent works, including Picasso masterpieces, to examine why they are regarded as superb works of art and why so many people love them.

Postwar Abstract Paintings in France and Art Informel

Art Informel is an avant-garde movement in painting centered in Paris after World War II. This exhibition presented about 100 works by leading Informel artists such as Fautrier, Dubuffet, and Wols.

Aoki Shigeru: Myth, Sea and Love

The first major Aoki Shigeru retrospective in 39 years, this exhibition presented 50 oil paintings and 150 watercolors and sketches, 200 works in all. It also introduced Aoki’s brief life and changes in the evaluation of Aoki’s work in the century since his untimely death.

From the Birth of Impressionism
to 20th Century Art

We have selected a number of the roughly 170 works
from the collection on display, to compare them and introduce
their distinctive characteristics.

Nomiyama Gyoji

Nomiyama has been active in Western-style painting in Japan for far longer than almost anyone else. The 110 paintings in the exhibition included his recent and highly ambitious efforts to broaden his expressive range.

Ishibashi Collection Selected
for the Exhibition in Paris, Spring, 1962

In 1962, the first exhibition introducing the Ishibashi Collection abroad (La Peinture française de Corot à Braque dans la Collection Ishibashi de Tokyo) took place at the Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris. This exhibition could be considered one of the starting points of our museum collection, which continued to grow, and was introduced here together with references dating from those days.

The Bridgestone Museum of Art at Sixty:
You’ve Got to See These Paintings

January of 2012 was the 60th anniversary of the opening of the Bridgestone Museum of Art, Ishibashi Foundation. Reaching that milestone had inspired us to select a hundred of the masterworks in our collection. For this special exhibition, the works were organized by genre and subject matter into 11 thematic categories.

Debussy, Music and the Arts

This exhibition focused on Debussy’s relationships with Impressionism, Symbolism, Japonisme, and other currents in the arts to present 19th century French art in a newly compelling way, by presenting about 150 works, the majority lent by the Musée d’Orsay and the Musée de l’Orangerie or from the museum’s own collection, in addition to works borrowed from other collections in Japan and abroad.

Art Walk: Selections from the Collection
of the Bridgestone Museum of Art"

Presented in this exhibition were approximately 170 works from the collection of the Bridgestone Museum of Art. The main focus lay on the development of Western art from Impressionism to the 20th century featuring works.

The Power of Brush-Points・Lines・Planes

Drawing attention to the brushwork that produces color and form, this exhibition included 170 works from the museum’s collection, paying special attention to 28 paintings in which the execution of points, lines and planes is extraordinary.

Through Japanese Eyes: Paris, 1900–1945

After the Meiji Restoration, learning from Western culture and then surpassing it became one of Japan’s goals. From the collections , we have selected 35 works depicting Paris by Asai Chu, Fujita Tsuguharu (Léonard Foujita) and Saeki Yuzo and so on.

The Color of Vision, the Color of Joy：Redon’s Dreams, Matisse’s Jazz…

With “The color” as our key phrase, presenting 170 works from the collection, included 20 prints from Matisse’s Jazz, an artist’s book he published late in his life, as well as Dreams (In the memory of my friend Armand Clauvaud), a group of lithographs by Redon recently added to the museum’s collection, and watercolors by Inokuma Gen’ichiro.

Gustave Caillebotte

The Bridgestone Museum of Art presented, through 60 works, the first retrospective of Gustave Caillebotte, a leading Impressionist who had not been introduced in full in Japan previously.

Gustave Caillebotte

The Bridgestone Museum of Art presented, through 60 works, the first retrospective of Gustave Caillebotte, a leading Impressionist who had not been introduced in full in Japan previously.

The Painters’ Eyes, the Sculptors’ Hands

Viewing paintings and sculptures together makes the distinctive features of each stand out. Paintings and sculptures, 160 of them, were the focus of this exhibition; all works were from the collection of the Bridgestone Museum of Art.

Chinese-Style Dresses: From Fujishima Takeji to Umehara Ryuzaburo

This exhibition presented 30 works depicting women in Chinese-style dress produced by Japanese Western-style painters between 1910 and 1940. Visitors were invited to enjoy exploring how they illustrate the growing maturity of Japanese Western-style painting during that period.

Time and the Painting-24 Episodes

This exhibition focused on time, a transitory element that slips in and out of view in paintings. The exhibition included some 160 works ranging from ancient art to Rembrandt, modern and contemporary art, and other Impressionists, and modern art from Japan.

Willem de Kooning From the John
and Kimiko Powers Collection

In this exhibition, paintings from the John and Kimiko Powers Collection were joined by oil paintings, water colors, and sketches by de Kooning from Japanese museums’ collections, for a total of 35 works in all.

Best of the Best

The Bridgestone Museum of Art closed for reconstruction in May of 2015, to reopen several years later. This exhibition was the last before we close. For our Best of the Best exhibition, we have chosen 160 works. The exhibition includes a special corner introducing the Bridgestone Museum of Art’s 63-year history.

Best of the Best

The Bridgestone Museum of Art closed for reconstruction in May of 2015, to reopen several years later. This exhibition was the last before we close. For our Best of the Best exhibition, we have chosen 160 works. The exhibition includes a special corner introducing the Bridgestone Museum of Art’s 63-year history.