[140th Anniversary of Yumeji’s Birth] Yumeji Local Art Museum Fall 2024 Special Exhibition National traveling exhibition from our museum collection Finally heading to Yumeji’s hometown of Okayama
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Press release: September 7, 2024
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[140th Anniversary of Yumeji’s Birth] Yumeji Local Art Museum Fall 2024 Special Exhibition National traveling exhibition from our museum collection Finally heading to Yumeji’s hometown of Okayama
*Includes works shown for the first time; held from Saturday, September 7, 2024 to Sunday, December 8, 2024 at Yumeji Local Art Museum Main Building*
Yumeji Local Art Museum (Location: 2-1-32 Hama, Naka-ku, Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture, Director: Mitsunobu Kojima, Management: Ryobi Cultural Promotion Foundation) will be open from Saturday, September 7, 2024 to December 8, 2024. To commemorate the 140th anniversary of the birth of Yumeji Takehisa (1884-1934), the 140th anniversary of his birth will be held on Sunday (Sunday), tracing his life from a new perspective based on the latest research.
We will be holding the YUMEJI Exhibition “Taisho Romantic and New World”. This is a nationwide touring exhibition of Yumeji’s local art museum collection that started at the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum in June, and will be held in Okayama, his birthplace, from September, his birth month. A large number of newly acquired works and precious collection works that will be exhibited for the first time only at the Okayama exhibition will also be on display, highlighting Yumeji’s world through approximately 270 works.
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*2024 Autumn Exhibition Overview*
*Name*:* “YUMEJI Exhibition 140th Anniversary of His Birth: Taisho Romance and the New World”*
*Duration*: September 7th (Sat) – December 8th (Sun), 2024
*Venue*: Yumeji Local Art Museum Main Building (2-1-32 Hama, Naka-ku, Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture)
Satellite venue: Yumeji Birthplace Memorial Hall/Shonen Lodge (2000-1 Honjo, Oku-cho, Setouchi City, Okayama Prefecture)
* overview* :
This exhibition is a large-scale commemorative exhibition in which selected collections from the Yumeji Museum of Art travel to museums across the country.The Tokyo exhibition, which started at the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum in June, attracted a great deal of attention and response. Yumeji has been loved throughout the ages and continues to attract many people even 90 years after his death. For this exhibition in Okayama, the main venue will be the main building of the Yumeji Local Art Museum, and the Yumeji Birthplace Memorial Hall and Shonen Sanso will be used as satellite venues. Approximately 270 works will be exhibited, including newly acquired works and valuable collection works that will be shown for the first time only at the Okayama exhibition. I would like to introduce some points.
Yumeji Takehisa, who created a unique style known as the
“Yumeji-style beauty” that took the world by storm in the late Meiji period, was the artist who best exuded the mature charm of Japanese modern art and culture from the Meiji period to the Taisho period and the Showa period. He became a pioneer who opened up a new era, working not only on paintings but also on covers of magazines and musical scores, book bindings, and the design of daily necessities. His pioneering activities, which transcend genres such as painters, poets, and designers, have attracted attention as a multi-purpose artist who is ahead of his time.
There are only about 30 oil paintings by Yumeji in existence, and this exhibition will feature the famous painting “Amaryllis,” whose whereabouts were unknown for a long time and was discovered 80 years later, and an oil painting painted during his stay in the United States “West Coast. The exhibition will feature 12 works, including “Nude”, focusing on Yumeji as an oil painter. In addition, the sketches of Yumeji’s travels abroad that he left behind for his friend Fujoka Masaki, the doctor who attended his final moments, will be exhibited for the first time, and only in Okayama will you be able to view sketches of nude women that lead to “Nudes on the West Coast”.
Born in Okayama, Yumeji became a popular self-taught artist and survived the turbulent first half of the 20th century.We will introduce Yumeji’s painting skills and charm through the Yumeji Museum of Art’s new collection, his masterpieces, and a variety of other works. Experience the world of Yumeji Takehisa more deeply in his hometown of Okayama.
*Highlights of each museum*
Yumeji Local Art Museum Main Building
Yumeji Local Art Museum Main Building ▶ First encounter with Yumeji’s work “Yumeji Local Art Museum
At the Main Building, 12 of Yumeji’s approximately 30 existing oil paintings will be exhibited together for the first time, including the rare mid-Taisho period oil paintings Amaryllis and Nude on the West Coast. At the same time, the oil painting “Road to Guadalupe”, which was painted during his overseas travels, will be exhibited for the first time in Okayama.
In addition, Yumeji will be showing for the first time the sketches he drew while traveling abroad, and only at this venue will you be able to see a total of 24 sketches, including sketches of nude women that are connected to the nude woman in “Nude on the West Coast.” In addition, the twin folding screens “Ichiriki” and “Kotatsu” (early exhibition), and “Jashu Crossing” and “Tabi no Uta” (later exhibition) are only available at this museum at the same time in the “140th Anniversary of YUMEJI’s Birth Exhibition.” !
Address: 2-1-32 Hama, Naka-ku, Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture TEL: 086-271-1000
Yumeji Birthplace Memorial Hall
Yumeji Birthplace Memorial Hall ▶Experience Yumeji’s works from their roots You can experience the origins of Yumeji’s art at the Yumeji Birthplace Memorial Hall, which is open to the public in Setouchi City and is the place where Yumeji lived until he was 16 years old. The exhibition features works that evoke a sense of nostalgia, including “Doji” and “Japanese Boy,” which are said to be depictions of Yumeji’s childhood memories.
Address: 2000-1 Honjo, Oku-cho, Setouchi City, Okayama Prefecture TEL: 0869-22-0622
boy’s mountain lodge
Shonen Mountain Lodge ▶Reminiscing about Yumeji’s creative days Designed by Yumeji himself, the atelier and residence “Shonen Sanso” is a special space that can be called Yumeji’s greatest work. Here you can find sketches drawn by Yumeji’s second son, Mr. Fujihiko, when he supervised the restoration of the Shonen Mountain Lodge, as well as the Senoo Musical Score and the Women’s Graph that Yumeji designed when he was living at the Shonen Mountain Lodge. You can view the works with a sense of realism that can only be experienced here. *Opening hours*: 9:00-17:00 (Last admission 16:30), 10:00-17:00 only on Saturday, September 7th (Last admission 16:30)
*Closed*: Monday (the next day if Monday is a holiday or substitute holiday) *Admission fee* (tax included):
[Main building, Yumeji Birthplace Memorial Hall, Boys Mountain Villa Set Admission Ticket] Adults 1,300 yen, Junior high school and high school students 650 yen, Elementary school students 500 yen
[Main building admission ticket] 1,000 yen for adults, 600 yen for junior high and high school students, 400 yen for elementary school students
[Yumeji Birthplace Memorial Hall/Shounen Sanso Entrance Ticket] Adults 600 yen, Junior high and high school students 250 yen, Elementary school students 200 yen
*20% discount for groups of 20 or more people, 10% discount for those 65 years or older in Okayama Prefecture with proof of proof. “Main building, Yumeji Birthplace Memorial Museum, Shonen Sanso Set Admission Ticket” and “Visit Yumeji Kuro no Suke Bus!! Special Admission Ticket with Commentary” are not eligible for discounts. Discounts cannot be used together.
*Free admission for Yumebee members
*Sponsor*: Ryobi Cultural Promotion Foundation Yumeji Folk Art Museum *Supervision*: Masayuki Okabe (Professor Emeritus, Teikyo University, Special Director, Gunma Museum of Modern Art)
* Cooperation *: Takehisa Yumeji Gakkai, Ryobi Group
* Sponsored *
:Okayama Prefectural Board of Education, Okayama City, Okayama City Board of Education, Okayama Prefecture Local Culture Foundation, Okayama Prefecture Cultural Federation, RSK Sanyo Broadcasting, RNC West Japan Broadcasting, OHK Okayama Broadcasting, KSB Seto Inland Sea Broadcasting, TSC Television Setouchi・NHK Okayama Broadcasting Station ・ONI Vision ・FM Okayama ・Radio Momo ・Asahi Shimbun Okayama General Bureau ・Sankei Shimbun ・Sanyo Shimbun ・Mainichi Shimbun Okayama Branch ・Yomiuri Shimbun Okayama Branch
*Special exhibition related events*
* [Special lecture by the supervisor of the “140th Anniversary of YUMEJI Exhibition” “A Gift from ARTIST Yumeji – The Charm of Artists Revealed by Newly Discovered and Newly Acquired Works”] *
On the first day of the exhibition, we will welcome Mr. Masayuki Okabe, the exhibition supervisor and director of the Takehisa Yumeji Society, and we will hold a special lecture in the exhibition room in the evening. In the exhibition space, we will talk about the highlights of this exhibition and the forefront of Yumeji’s research. Lecturer: Mr. Masayuki Okabe (Professor Emeritus, Teikyo University, Special Director, Gunma Museum of Modern Art)
Date and time: Saturday, September 7, 2024, 18:00-19:30 (doors open at 17:30) Location: Yumeji Local Art Museum Main Building Exhibition Room Capacity: 80 people (reservation required, first come first served) Participation fee (tax included): General 1,500 yen, Junior high school and university students 1,100 yen, Elementary school students 900 yen
Application: Yumeji Local Art Museum Main Building (TEL: 086-271-1000, E-mail: yumeji@gaea.ocn.ne.jp)
* [140th Anniversary of Yumeji Takehisa’s Birth “Birthday Talk Event in Mori no Machi Grace ~ Yumeji Seen from a New Perspective”] * To celebrate Yumeji’s birthday on September 16th, Kohei Nawa, an internationally active sculptor, will hold the first Yumeji exhibition at a national art museum, “Kawanishi Collection Memorial
Exhibition”.
We will be holding a special one-day talk event with Mr. Hidetsugu Yamano, director of the Wakayama Museum of Modern Art, who directed “With Yumeji” (National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto).
Date and time: September 16, 2024 (Monday/holiday) 15:00-16:30 (doors open 14:30)
Speaker: Kohei Nawa (Sculptor/Sandwich
Inc. representative/Professor at Kyoto University of Arts), Hidetsugu Yamano (Director, Wakayama Museum of Modern Art), Hiromi Kojima (Deputy Director, Yumeji Local Art Museum)
Location: Morinomachi Grace Office Square 3F, large conference rooms A and B (2-10-8 Shimoishi, Kita-ku, Okayama City)
Participation fee: Free
Capacity: 150 people (no application required, first come first served) *For details, please check the Yumeji Art Museum website