Masterpieces from the Permanent Collection: Ota Kijiro and his Genealogy September 11 (Saturday) — October 24 (Sunday) Exhibition space: main building, the main exhibition hall.
Ota Kijiro, Garden in Autumn, 1915

After having studied at the Tokyo School of Arts, Ota Kijiro (1883-1951) left for Belgium in Meiji 41 (1908), acquiring an expressive vivid light in works in Pointillist techniques. After returning home he was active in the Teiten exhibitions, and in Showa 11 (1936), he established both the Murasakino Yoga Kenkyu-jo (Murasakino Western-style Painting Research Institute) and the Kaho-kai, which gave guidance to a younger generation. This exhibition will focus on works by artists exhibited in this museum in the ‘Kaho-kai’ exhibition, and trace one current of Kyoto’s history of Western-style painting. Works by Arai Tamotsu, Yamada Shinichi, Yuri Akira, Mio Kozo and Nishioka Yoshikazu will be exhibited.

• Masterpieces from the Permanent Collection I:
  The Round and Rectangular
• Kyoten 2010
• Masterpieces from the Permanent Collection II:
  Women Artists of Kyoto – bearing burdens / burdens born
• European Masterpieces from The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• Masterpieces from the Permanent Collection: Ota Kijiro and his Genealogy
• The Takashimaya Collection with the History of Modern Art
• The 95th Inten:
  Exhibition of the Japan Art Institute
• The 130th Anniversary of the Founding of Kyoto City University of Arts: The Formation of Kyoto Nihonga – The Master Painter’s Challenges
• The 42nd Nitten Kyoto Exhibition
• Shinran – Founder of the Jodo Shinshu Pure Land Sect of Buddhism