Okawa Art Museum

About

Standing on the slope of Suidoyama in Kiryu, Gunma Prefecture, this museum opened in April 1989 to display a collection assembled over 40 years by Eiji Okawa, a businessman from Kiryu. The building is a former dormitory of the Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank, extended and renovated to a design by Kan Matsumoto using a skip-floor layout. The collection, centered on modern Japanese Western-style painting, numbers more than 6,500 works, including Shunsuke Matsumoto's Street (1938) and Canal Landscape (1943). The museum is known for holding Japan's largest collection of works by the painter Hideo Noda, who died young. It also holds Western art by Picasso, Miró, Rouault, and others.