"Cincinnati Art Museum Exhibition: European Treasures That Crossed to America" (Ueno Royal Museum) Report: 84 Masterpieces, from Van Gogh's Late Works to Monet and Cézanne, Come Together
A report on the exhibition at the Ueno Royal Museum featuring 84 works from the Cincinnati Art Museum, including 81 first-time-in-Japan pieces.Summary
The exhibition introduces the collection built over 145 years by the Cincinnati Art Museum in Ohio, USA, and is held at the Ueno Royal Museum until January 10, 2027. It displays 84 works, including paintings by Corot, Courbet, Cézanne, Monet, Renoir, Van Gogh, Picasso, Modigliani, and Chagall, as well as sculptures by Degas and Giacometti, with 81 of these being shown in Japan for the first time. The Cincinnati Art Museum's collection of over 70,000 works was formed through citizen donations and gifts from female collectors, and the exhibition is structured like a "textbook" that systematically traces the transition of modern European art from Academicism to Cubism. At the press preview, Peter Jonathan Bell, Director of Academic Partnerships and Research and Curator of European Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings, spoke about how the museum's renovation enabled the collection to travel, and expressed hope that visitors would feel the collection's narrative from various perspectives.
(Source：Tokyo Art Beat)