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Mito Mito may refer to: Places *Mito, Ibaraki, capital city of Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan *Mito, Aichi, a Japanese town *Mito, Shimane, a Japanese town * Mitō, Yamaguchi, a Japanese town * Mito District, a district in the province of Concepción, Per ...

Ibaraki Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Ibaraki Prefecture has a population of 2,871,199 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of . Ibaraki Prefecture borders Fukushima Prefecture to the north, ...

, Japan, in October 1988. The collection, numbering some 3,700 pieces as of October 2015, includes works by

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, and

Renoir Pierre-Auguste Renoir (; 25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Re ...

Gustave Courbet Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet ( , , ; 10 June 1819 – 31 December 1877) was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and t ...

Eugène Carrière Eugène Anatole Carrière (16 January 1849 – 27 March 1906) was a French Symbolist artist of the fin-de-siècle period. Carrière's paintings are best known for their near-monochrome brown palette and their ethereal, dreamlike quality. He ...

Camille Pissarro Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro ( , ; 10 July 1830 – 13 November 1903) was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, St Thomas (now in the US Virgin Islands, but t ...

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as well as ''

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'' and ''

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'' by artists including

Tsuguharu Foujita was a Japanese–French painter and printmaker born in Tokyo, Japan, who applied Japanese ink techniques to Western style paintings. At the height of his fame in Paris, during the 1920s, he was known for his portraits of nudes using an opalescen ...

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, Taikan Yokoyama, Yukihiko Yasuda, Tetsugoro Yorozu,

Kanzan Shimomura was the art-name, pseudonym of a nihonga painter in Meiji era, Meiji through to the early Shōwa period Japan. His real name was Shimomura Seizaburō. Biography Kanzan was born in 1873 in Wakayama, Wakayama, Wakayama city, Wakayama Prefecture i ...

Kenzo Okada Kenzo Okada (岡田謙三, ''Okada Kenzō''; born on September 28, 1902, died on July 25, 1982) was a Japanese-born American painter and the first Japanese-American artist to work in the abstract expressionism, Abstract Expressionist style and ...

Yasuo Kuniyoshi was a Japanese-American painter, photographer and printmaker. Biography Kuniyoshi was born on September 1, 1889 in Okayama, Japan. He immigrated to the United States in 1906, choosing not to attend military school in Japan. Kuniyoshi original ...

Kiyokata Kaburagi was the art-name of a Nihonga artist and the leading master of the ''bijin-ga'' genre in the Taishō and Shōwa eras. His legal name was Kaburaki Ken'ichi. The artist himself used the reading "Kaburaki", but many Western (and some Japanese) sour ...

Kokei Kobayashi was a Japanese ''Nihonga'' painter. He was friends with Tamako Kataoka (1905–2008). He was a student of Kajita Hanko. He was awarded the Order of Culture. Works File:Kobayashi Fruit.jpg, ''Fruit'' (1910) File:Kobayashi Ideyu.jpg, ''In the ...

, Gyoshū Hayami,

Hishida Shunsō was the pseudonym of a Japanese painter from the Meiji period. One of Okakura Tenshin's pupils along with Yokoyama Taikan and Shimomura Kanzan, he played a role in the Meiji era innovation of ''Nihonga''. His real name was Hishida Miyoji. He ...

, and Shikō Imamura. Noteworthy works in the collection include ''Chrysanthèmes'' by

Édouard Manet Édouard Manet (, ; ; 23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883) was a French modernist painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, as well as a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. Born ...

, ''Grotte de Port-Domois'' by

Claude Monet Oscar-Claude Monet (, , ; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During ...

and ''Portrait de Mademoiselle Francois'' by

Pierre-Auguste Renoir Pierre-Auguste Renoir (; 25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "R ...

. Édouard Manet - Chrysanthèmes.jpg, Édouard Manet:
''Chrysanthèmes'' Claude Monet - Grotte de Port-Domois.jpg , Claude Monet:
''Grotte de Port-Domois'' Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Portrait de Madamoiselle Francois.jpg, Pierre-Auguste Renoir:
''Portrait de Mademoiselle Francois''

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External links

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The Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki
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Collection Database
{{DEFAULTSORT:Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki Museums in Ibaraki Prefecture Mito, Ibaraki Art museums and galleries in Japan Prefectural museums Art museums established in 1988 1988 establishments in Japan

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