On July 16, the opening ceremony of the “400 Years of Western Paintings: Masterpieces from Tokyo Fuji Art Museum” exhibition was held at the Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art. The exhibition is being sponsored by the Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art and Kumamoto Telecasting Corporation. TFAM Director Akira Gokita spoke at the opening ceremony following addresses from Kumamoto Prefectural Governor Ikuo Kabashima and Kumamoto Telecasting chair Masaru Motomatsu. Kumamoto City Mayor Kazufumi Onishi also spoke at the event.
The exhibition features 82 works from the TFAM collection selected from a broad range of genres and spans an epoch from the 16th to 20th centuries. “400 Years of Western Paintings” will run from July 16 to September 4.
