The is a prefectural museum in Shizuoka City, Japan, created in commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the inauguration of the Shizuoka Prefectural Assembly.

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Founded in 1986, the 9.240 m2 (99,4585 ft2) museum is located in the vicinity of the University of Shizuoka's (静岡県立大学) Kusanagi campus, on a verdant hill on the northern side of the picturesque Nihondaira Plateau in the southern part of the city.

A promenade in the midst of a Sculpture Garden creates a pleasurable journey for visitors to the wooded site and leads right up to the main museum entrance. Twelve sculptures grace this main alleyway. Monumental work by American artists George Rickey, James Rosati and Tony Smith is complemented by work from Japanese sculptors such as Makio Yamaguchi (山口牧生), Tadayoshi Sato (佐藤忠良), Kiyosumi Onishi (大西清澄), Kubei Shimizu (清水九兵衛), Takashi Sugimura (杉村孝), Goro Kakei (掛井五郎), Hisao Suzuki (鈴木久雄), Yoshitatsu Yanagihara (柳原義達) and Yasutake Funakoshi (舟越保武).

Collection of the Main Building The Main Building houses a.o. a Gallery of Prefecture Residents with work from local Japanese artists, mostly of lesser interest to an international public.

The bulk of the collection on show is constituted mostly of Japanese and some Western works of art, primarily focused on landscape painting., The museum also has a fine collection of Japanese drawings and prints, as well as a number of prints by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Marco Ricci, etc., and watercolours by Joseph Mallord William Turner and John Robert Cozens.

European Painting

XVIIth-C. and XVIIIth-C landscape paintings by Hubert Robert, Claude Lorrain, Gaspard Dughet, Claude-Joseph Vernet and Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidauld constitute the earliest examples of the French School.

French early XIXth-C painting is represented by Gustave Courbet, Pierre Étienne Théodore Rousseau, Achille-Etna Michallon, and Alexandre-Hyacinthe Dunouy. Paintings by French Impressionists Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro, by Post-Impressionists Paul Cézanne, Paul Signac and Paul Gauguin, and by fauvist Maurice de Vlaminck complement the late XIXth-C collection.

The English masters John Constable and Samuel Palmer typify the early XIXth-C school of British landscape painting.

The Dutch school shows a number of XVIIth-C works by masters such as Jakob van Ruysdael, Rembrandt Van Rijn, Aert van der Neer, Jan van Goyen and Adriaen van Ostade.

Japanese Painting (Work in Progress) [to be expanded]

The 400-year history of the Kanō school is one of the main focuses of the museum.

Many depictions of Mount Fuji and the Tōkaidō landscape by various Japanese painters can be viewed in the collection as is work by painters associated with the Tokugawa shogunate.

Most notable Japanese paintings are works by Taikan Yokoyama (横山 大観), a twentieth century painter, and Jakuchū Itō (伊藤 若冲), an eighteenth century (mid-Edo-period) master, who made a famous set of painted folding screens, called the , using a rare technique he invented, masume gaki (枡目描き).

Contemporary art The museum has a number of sculptural works by 1960s artists from a group called GEN-SHOKU, i.e. , a local avant-garde city-based movement of the XXth century: Issei Koike (小池一誠), Shoji Iida (飯田昭二), Yoshinori Suzuki (鈴木慶則), Morichi Maeda (前田守一) and Katsuji Niwa (丹羽勝次). Some of these artists became involved with later members of the Mono-ha movement.,

Sculpture Collection in the new wing The main attraction of this museum is its lofty 3.025 m2 (32,560 ft2) domed Rodin Wing (designed by the Shizuoka office of Nissoken Architects and Engineers, Tokyo) which opened in March 1994, and offers a splendid home to a collection of thirty-two sculptures by the renowned French artist Auguste Rodin, including certified versions of The Thinker, The Gates of Hell, The Burghers of Calais, ... and some Monuments to great artists, such as James McNeill Whistler, Claude Lorrain, Jules Bastien-Lepage, Charles Baudelaire or Honoré de Balzac.

In the Bridge Gallery, connecting the Main Building to the Rodin Wing, the spectator can experience a total of 51 sculptures, from periods before and after Rodin, by renowned sculptors such as: Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Antoine-Louis Barye, Jules Dalou, Emmanuel Frémiet, Medardo Rosso, Constantin Brancusi, Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, Jacques Lipchitz, Aristide Maillol, Antoine Bourdelle, Alexander Archipenko, Alberto Giacometti, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Henry Moore, Paul Gauguin, Ernst Barlach and Camille Claudel, Rodin's muse and one-time lover.

Works in the collection

Works in the Main Building (Work in Progress) [to be expanded]

Works in the Rodin Wing

+The Gates of Hell and related works by RodinTitleDateMaterialDimensions (cm)CastThe Gates of Hell 1880–19171880–1917 Bronze620*390*100No 6/8, 1992 The Gates of Hell, third maquette1880–81 Bronze110*73*31No III./IV., 1992 The Thinker1880 Bronze183*130*1101902–1904The Caryatid with a Vaseca.1880–88 Bronze123.7*80.5*81.3No II./IV., 1986Cybele1890 Bronze161*78.8*86.5No I./III., 1988Head of the Large Shade Bronze38*28*32NoII./IV., 1988Torso of the Large Shade Bronze100.5*73*49No II./IV., 1991Paolo and Francesca1880's Bronze29.8*59.1*27No 8/8, 1983Bacchanalca.1900–10 Bronze41*48.8*41.8No 1/8, 1989 Torso of the Centauresse and a Despairing Adolescent Bronze31.2*24.5*13.1No II./IV., 1991Torso of the Centauresse and a Female Torso Bronze21.5*15.1*12.4No II./IV., 1991Torso of the Centauresse and Study for Iris Bronze22.9*11.3*13.2No II./IV., 1991Fugit Amorca.1887 Marble55*87.6*56

+The Burghers of Calais and related works by RodinTitleDateMaterialDimensions (cm)CastThe Burghers of Calais, Eustache de Saint-Pierreca.1886–87 Bronze214*77.5*114.5No IV./IV., 1988The Burghers of Calais, Jean d'Aireca.1886–87 Bronze204.5*67*63No IV./IV., 1988The Burghers of Calais, Pierre de Wissantca.1886–87 Bronze196*113*95.5No IV./IV., 1986The Burghers of Calais, Jean de Fiennesca.1887–89 Bronze206.5*119*85No II./IV., 1984The Burghers of Calais, Jacques de Wissantca.1887–89 Bronze210*135*76No III./IV., 1988The Burghers of Calais, Andrieu d'Andresca.1887–89 Bronze198*127*87.5No II./IV., 1988The Burghers of Calais, first maquette1884 Bronze60*38*31No 8/8, 1987 +Some Monuments and other works by RodinTitleDateMaterialDimensions (cm)CastCharles Baudelaire, headca.1892–98 Bronze25.5*20.5*22.5N1, c. 1892 – 1898Young Girl with Roses in her Hairca.1870–75 Terracotta39*19.5*17.5Bastien-Lepage1887–89 Bronze175*92*82No III./IV., 1991Claude Lorrain1889 Bronze212*121*103No II./IV., 1990Naked Balzacca.1896 Bronze91*38.5*36No II./IV., 1987 Colossal Head of Balzac1897 Bronze49*49.5*38No I./I., 1982Torso of the Spirit of Eternal Repose aka Funerary Spirit Bronze86*39*29No 4, 1981The Spirit of Eternal Reposeca.1899 Bronze193*100*91No III./IV., 1990The Muse of Whistlerca.1903–08 Bronze236*108*80No III./IV., 1989Grand Mask of Hanakoafter 1907 Bronze55*39*29No 3, 1973 Torso of a Seated Woman called the Victoria and Albert Museum Bronze63*38*20No I./IV., 1982Study for "La France" or Saint George1904 Bronze50*43*31No III./III., 1985

+The 19th Century French Sculpture Before Rodin (At the Rodin Wing)SculptorTitleDateMaterialDimensions (cm)CastEmmanuel FREMIET (1824–1910)Serpent Charmer1883 Bronze45*15*14Antoine-Louis BARYE (1795–1875)Lion Crushing a Serpent1838 Bronze21.3*32*18.5BARYE 1838 Jean-Baptiste CARPEAUX (1827–1875)Neapolitan Fisherboy1857 Bronze89.5*45*54.5Jean-Baptiste CARPEAUX (1827–1875)Mater Dolorosa1869–70 Terracotta73.5*60*36.5Albert-Ernest CARRIER-BELLEUSE (1824–1887)Satyr Carrying off a Nymphafter 1868 Terracotta56.6, 28 (diameter of base)Aimé-Jules DALOU (1838–1902) Nursing Parisienne1874 Bronze47.5*23*36.2Dalou 1874

Works in the Bridge Gallery +Development of Post-Rodin SculptureSculptorTitleDateMaterialDimensions (cm)CastPaul GAUGUIN (1848–1903)Ovirica.1894–95 Coloured plaster74.5*26*32.5Medardo ROSSO (1858–1928)A Patient at Hospital1889 Bronze21*18*25.5Émile-Antoine BOURDELLE (1861–1929)Head of Apollo1909 Bronze67*26.5*32Émile-Antoine BOURDELLE (1861–1929)Bust of Rodin1909 Bronze56*33*35Aristide MAILLOL (1861–1944)Torso of Ile de France1921 Bronze120*32*58(M) 4/6Camile CLAUDEL (1864–1943)Wave (reproduction)1897–98 Bronze50*56*601/8Constantin BRANCUSI (1876–1957)Mademoiselle Pogany II1925 Polished bronze57*18*26Wilhelm LEHMBRUCK (1881–1919)Small Torso of a Woman1911Cement with brown patina70.5*24.5*17.5Ernst BARLACH (1870–1938)Reading Monks III1932 Bronze58*44.5*34.51932Jacques LIPCHITZ (1891–1973)Mother and Child1913 Bronze59.5*24*241/7Alexander ARCHIPENKO (1887–1964)Study for Woman Powdering Herself: Head, Construction with Crossing Planes 1913 Bronze, wooden base42.5*36*32.51913 AHenry MOORE (1898–1986)Reclining Figure1977 Bronze14*58.5*48Moore 2/9Alberto GIACOMETTI (1901–1966)Reclining Woman1929 Bronze26.7*43.1*15.22/6, 1929

Literature

Rodin Wing – Guidebook (spmoa.shizuoka.shizuoka.jp)

References

External links Official site (mainly in Japanese, limited info in English)