Artizon Museum
Artizon Museum 3=Aatizon Bijutukan, until 2018 Bridgestone Museum of Art, is an art museum in Tokyo, Japan. The museum was founded in 1952 by the founder of Bridgestone Tire Co., Ishibashi Shojiro. The museum's collections include Impressionists, Post-Impressionists and twentieth-century art by Japanese, European and American artists, as well as ceramic works from Ancient Greece.
Also recorded as Bridgestone Museum of Art
Artizon Museum

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- 1952.
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- Japan.
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Artizon Museum 3=Aatizon Bijutukan, until 2018 Bridgestone Museum of Art, is an art museum in Tokyo, Japan. The museum was founded in 1952 by the founder of Bridgestone Tire Co., Ishibashi Shojiro. The museum's collections include Impressionists, Post-Impressionists and twentieth-century art by Japanese, European and American artists, as well as ceramic works from Ancient Greece.
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Overview
Overview
The museum is located in the Museum Tower Kyobashi, a 25 floor office building in the Yaesu-Kyobashi area of Tokyo.

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Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Artizon Museum • Location — Tokyo, Japan
History
History
The museum was founded in 1952 by Ishibashi Shojiro, founder of Bridgestone Tire Co. (his family name means stone bridge). The museum hosted the first major retrospective in Japan dedicated to Italian architect Ettore Sottsass in 2026.
Closure and eventual reopening
Closure and eventual reopening
The museum was located in the headquarters of the Bridgestone Corporation in Chūō, Tokyo. This building was demolished in 2015 and the Museum Tower Kyobashi was erected in its place. The museum closed its doors on 18 May 2015 and reopened again in January 2020. The museum's new name was announced in 2018, combining the words "art" and "horizon". During the long-term closure, various items from the museum's collection have been loaned out for display in other institutions.
Selected artists
Selected artists
• Edgar Degas • Pierre-Auguste Renoir • Camille Pissarro • Édouard Manet • Vincent van Gogh • Paul Gauguin • Gustave Moreau • Paul Cézanne • Claude Monet • Amedeo Clemente Modigliani • Maurice Denis • Georges Rouault • Pablo Picasso • Paul Klee • Narashige Koide • Tsuguharu Foujita • Fujishima Takeji • Shigeru Aoki
Ishibashi Foundation Art Research Center
Ishibashi Foundation Art Research Center
The Ishibashi Foundation Art Research Center opened in Machida in 2015 as a research facility for the Artizon Museum. Focused upon the research, storage, and preservation and restoration of the collection, since 2017 school groups have been welcomed, there are also lectures and workshops for the public, and a library open to researchers.
Institutional history
Dated record
Institutional history
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1952
Artizon Museum established.
1952
Artizon Museum is recorded from 1952.
Publications
The museum has published a number of books about its collection and special exhibitions.
Selected collection highlights
Selected collection highlights
• Illustration — Young Man Playing the Piano, Gustave Caillebotte • Illustration — Still Life with Flowers, Fruits, Wineglass and Tea Cup, Henri Fantin-Latour • Illustration — Water-Lilies, Claude Monet • Illustration — Vegetable garden, Camille Pissarro • Illustration — Woman and child on a balcony, Berthe Morisot • Illustration — Augusta Reading to Her Daughter, Mary Cassatt • Illustration — Sleep, Eva Gonzalès • Illustration — Georgette Charpentier, Pierre-Auguste Renoir. • Illustration — San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk, Claude Monet • Illustration — La Toilette, Gustave Moreau • Illustration — June Morning in Saint-Mammès, Alfred Sisley • Illustration — Port of Concarneau, Paul Signac • Illustration — Portrait of a Young Woman, Paul Gauguin • Illustration — Mont Sainte-Victoire and Château Noir, Paul Cezanne • Illustration — Spring, Sesshū Tōyō • Illustration — Views in and around the City of Kyoto, Unknown Edo period artist • Illustration — Peony and Peacocks, Maruyama Ōkyo • Illustration — Black Fan, Fujishima Takeji • Illustration — Self-Portrait with a Hat, Koide Narashige • Illustration — Roses, Yasui Sotaro
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q913808: Artizon Museum
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- “Artizon Museum”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Museums" in Japan Encyclopedia, pp. 671-673.
- 2.https://www.museumtower-kyobashi.com/en/overview/
- 3.Dunn, Michael. Bridgestone museum celebrates 50th anniversary. The Japan Times. The Japan Times, Ltd. May 4, 2006.
- 4.https://www.agenzianova.com/en/news/Japan-Italy-at-the-Artizon-Museum-in-Tokyo%3A-the-first-major-retrospective-in-Japan-dedicated-to-Ettore-Sottsass/
- 5.Bridgestone Museum of Art. Announcement: We will close for renovation on May 18. 18 November 2014.
- 6.Concept | Artizon Museum. 26 July 2020.
- 7.About Us | Artizon Museum. 26 July 2020.
- 8.Bridgestone Museum of Art. Works on loan to other museums.
- 9.Wada, Yuhei. 'Why is it Masterwork?'. The Japan Times. The Japan Times, Ltd. January 21, 2011.
- 10.Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation.
- 11.Books. Artizon Museum.
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