Museum of Modern Art, Saitama

Located in the lush green Kita-Urawa Park, the Museum of Modern Art, Saitama is a comprehensive art museum based on the concept of “seeing, creating, and presenting”, and its grid-based building has excellent formative qualities.

In addition to artists associated with Saitama, the museum houses many contemporary art works from Japan and abroad. The museum exhibits a collection of outstanding works of art by foreign masters such as Monet, Chagall, and Picasso, as well as contemporary Japanese artists.

In addition, special exhibitions with unique themes are held from time to time.

The attraction of the museum is that visitors can sit back and relax on the fun, good-design chairs placed throughout the museum, which can be freely sat on, and appreciate the works. In an exhibit called “Chair Collection,” visitors can freely sit on chairs of various shapes created by designers and take pictures.

Museum concerts, lectures, and art workshops for parents and children are also held. Visitors can also enjoy the museum at their leisure in the museum store, which stocks art books and goods, or in the restaurant, which serves authentic Italian cuisine.

The main works in the collection. Three-dimensional works are also exhibited in the park called “Sculpture Forest” around the museum.

Claude Monet “Giverny Piles of Straw, Sunset” (oil on canvas, 1888-89)
Haruko Okuhara, “Sacred Garden with Group of Cranes” (color on silk, diptych, 1905)
Jules Pasquin “Sleeping Nude Woman” (oil on canvas, 1928)
Yoshikawa Reika “Raukusen Onna” (ink and light color on paper, on a shaft, 1928)
Camille Pissarro, “Daughter Chasing Cattle at Ellany” (oil on canvas, 1884)
Pierre Auguste Renoir “Three Bathers” (oil on canvas, 1917)
Maurice Utrillo “Sacré-Coeur de Montmartre with Flags” (oil on canvas, 1919)
Maurice Denis, “Madonna and Child with Chagmalilies” (oil on canvas, 1925)
André Derain “Baigneuse” (oil on canvas, 1925)
Tsuguharu Fujita “Lying Nude and Cat” (oil on canvas, 1931)
Moyes Kissling “Portrait of Rita Van Lear” (oil on canvas, 1927), “Fruit on a Red Table” (oil on canvas, 1944)
Pablo Picasso, Still Life (oil on canvas, 1944)
Paul Signac, “The Riverside at Agnières” (oil on canvas, 1885)
Haruko Okuhara “Autumn Landscape” (1878), “Fairy Crane” (1905)
Hashimoto Masakuni “Changjiang Harurozu” (ink and light color on silk, 1 scroll, 1895)
French Landscape II” by Toyosaku Saito (ca. 1910)
Tsurunosuke Takeuchi “Evening of Porcupine” (1912)
Shimomura Kanzan “Gan ni Shima (Island in a Rock)” (color on silk, set of six paintings, 1915-16)
Tsunetomo Morita “Aizu Landscape” (oil on canvas, 1916), “Midorino” (ca. 1926)
Hayashi Waie “Western Woman” (1923), “Bessho Swamp
Settai Komura “Aoyagi” (color on silk, ca. 1924)
Tamotsu Tanaka “Nude” (oil on canvas, 1924)
Saeki Yuzo “Gate” (oil on canvas, 1925)
Makoto Takada “Urawa Landscape” (1929)
Takee Kikuzawa “Crowd of Chickens” (1929)
Seiki Komoda “Spring Night” (1930, Tangible Cultural Property designated by Saitama Prefecture)
Yasushi Atomi “Ishikawa Island” (1930)
KURATA Shirayasu “Mountain Foothills” (oil on canvas, 1933)
Yori Saito “Mount Kongo at Dawn” (1938)
Takeo Watanabe “Statue of Mr. T, the Old Library Director” (1941)
Settai Komura “Osen” (ca. 1941)
Yamaji Mamoru “Water Illusion” (1947)
YOMODA Souen “Nude Woman” (1949)
Manjiro Terauchi “Nude” (oil on canvas, 1954)
Eikyu “Cloudy” (oil on canvas, 1959)
Kokuta Suda “My Mandala a” (oil on canvas, 1964)
KAWARAI Kaiichi “Suburb of Lisbon” (1966)
Akimasa Satomi “In front of the mirror” (1968)
Eizo Okuse “Clouds and Kaikoma” (1970)
Chikko Kawamura “Spring on the Bank” (1973)
Tokuei Kaneko “Tabletop B” (1982)
Minoru Tanaka “Haruka” (1984)
Rikisaburo Terai “Red Sofa” (1984)
Kaoru Ueda “Spoon C on Jerry” (oil on canvas, 1990)
Katsushige Kato “Hibiki” (1986)
Yu Ogawa “Sand Dunes, Hira-Sunaura” (1992)

These works are part of the museum’s collection.