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UEMURA, Shoen   1875 - 1949
 
 
Preparing to Dance
 
1914
color on silk/two-panel folding screen, 170.0×202.0 cm
 
J00565
The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
 
Provenance
 
Exhibition History
1990 Masterpieces from the Bunten exhibition 1907-1918, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, 1990/5/18 - 1990/7/18
1993 The Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, Ibaraki, Japan, 1993/1/15 - 1993/2/14
1993 TSURUGA Municipal Museum, Fukui, Japan, 1993/9/2 - 1993/10/5
1994 Takeuchi Seihō and Uemura Shōen : Paintings and preparatory drawings, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan, 1994/11/3 - 1994/11/30
1995 Nihonga ―transcending the past―Japanese-style painting, 1868-1968, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, USA, 1995/11/2 - 1996/12/31
2000 UEMURA Shoen and Shoen award winning artists, Shohaku Museum of Art, Nara, Japan, 2000/01/15 - 2000/02/20
2002 Exhibition: Shoen Uemura, Kiyokata Kaburaki, The Suiboku Museum, Toyama, Toyama, Japan, 2002/10/04 - 2002/11/04
2003 Exhibition: UEMURA Shoen, Kyoto Municipal Museum of School History, Kyoto, Japan, 2003/02/13 - 2003/04/22
2004 Exhibition: UEMURA Shoen, Shoko, Atsushi, Tenshin Memorial Museum of Art, Ibaraki, Ibaraki, Japan, 2004/01/02 - 2004/02/15
2004 Exhibition: Uemura Shōen, Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Mie, Japan, 2004/04/14 - 2004/05/23
2004 Japanese paintings in Kyoto: Collection of The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Tenshin Memorial Museum of Art, Ibaraki, Ibaraki, Japan, 2004/10/16 - 2004/11/28
2005 Masterworks of Japanese paintings: Collection of The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan, 2005/01/02 - 2005/01/30
2005 3 great masters: Shoen, Kiyokata, Shinsui, Meito Art Museum, Aichi, Japan, 2005/06/21 - 2005/08/14
2005 Masterworks of Japanese paintings: Collection of The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, The Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum, Niigata, Japan, 2005/09/10 - 2005/10/23
2006 Collection of The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto: Japanese Paintings in Kyoto, The Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan, 2006/04/22 - 2006/05/28
2006 Japanese paintings from Collection of The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Oita Art Museum, Oita, Japan, 2006/10/06 - 2006/11/19
2007 Exhibition: UEMURA Shoen, OGURA Yuki and AKINO Fuku, The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Shiga, Japan, 2007/04/21 - 2007/06/03
2007 Uemura Shōen retrospective, Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukushima, Japan, 2007/10/06 - 2007/11/11
2008 The 100th anniversary of Nitten, The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Toyama, Japan, 2008/04/12 - 2008/05/18
2009 A selection of masterpieces from the National Museums of Modern Art, The Kagawa Museum, Kagawa, Japan, 2009/09/12 - 2009/10/12
2009 A selection of masterpieces from the National Museums of Modern Art, The Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Tokushima, Japan, 2009/10/24 - 2009/12/06
2010 Exhibition:Uemura Shoen, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, 2010/09/07 - 2010/10/17
2011 Shoen no egaku tôbizin: tôbizin ni takusita omoi, Shouhaku Art Museum, Nara, Japan, 2011/03/15 - 2011/03/15
2012 Uruwasiki zyosei no bi: UEMURA Shoen, KABURAKI Kiyokata, ITO Shinsui, Meito Art Museum, Aichi, Japan, 2012/10/06 - 2012/12/16
2014 Great masters of Kyoto painting circles II : Japanese paintings by the prize winners of the order of culture, Kyoto Prefectural Insho-Domoto Museum of Fine Arts, Kyoto, Japan, 2014/10/17 - 2014/11/30
2016 Uemura Shoen : a retrospective, Okuda Genso Sayume Art Museum, Hiroshima, Japan, 2016/09/15 - 2016/11/03
2017 The elegance and modernity of Kyoto : masterpieces of Japanese-style paintings and crafts from the collection of the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi, Gunma, Japan, 2017/04/22 - 2017/06/25
2018 UEMURA Shoen: 15th anniversary Mizuno Museum of Art, Mizuno Museum of Art, Nagano, Japan, 2018/04/14 - 2018/05/27
2018 The ultimate in arts and crafts : selected masterpieces from the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Hokkaido, Japan, 2018/09/15 - 2018/11/11
2019 Shoen Uemura : a retrospective, Hamamatsu Municipal Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan, 2019/04/27 - 2019/06/09
2020 Traveling Exhibitions of National Art Museum Collection Art Works Masterpieces from the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto: Oil Paintings, Japanese-style Paintings and Crafts by Kyoto Artists, Hokkaido Asahikawa Museum of Art, Hokkaido, Japan, 2020/7/11 - 2020/8/30
2020 Traveling Exhibitions of National Art Museum Collection Art Works Masterpieces from the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto: Oil Paintings, Japanese-style Paintings and Crafts by Kyoto Artists, Takasaki Tower Museum of Art, Gunma, Japan, 2020/9/19 - 2020/11/8
 
Bibliography
2018 Moyo, URASHIMA, G.B.Company
 
 
Works by this artist
Mother and Child, 1934, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Snow, 1942, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Album of Paintings 1, 1942-43, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Shizuka Gozen, shirabyoshi dancer, 1944, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Firefly, 1944, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Bon Festival Dance, Beginning Showa Period, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
Booklet with Famous Artists "Picture Garden", Late Meiji Period(c. 1890-1912), The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
Merry Season of Cherry Blossoms, c.1907, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
Preparing to Dance, 1914, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
Fairy Lady, Chu Lian Xiang, c. 1924, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
Looking up at the Rainbow, 1932, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto