Paintings from Hori’s travels to Central and South America and the Himalayas evoke rich content like tropical flowers, colorful birds and butterflies, local people in native clothing, and more. Explore the world of this artist and feel the fresh surprise and excitement of a painter with a highly adventurous spirit. Also exhibited are her representative works seen in two paintings of Blue Poppy, a phantom flower blooming in the Himalayas, and two works newly collected by the museum.

Fumiko Hori 1918–2019
Born in Tokyo and graduates Private Women’s School of Fine Arts (now Joshibi University of Art and Design). Enters Sozo Bijutsuten from its first exhibition and becomes member in 1950. Independent and unaffiliated with any circle after her time as a member of Shinseisaku Kyokai and Soga-kai. Wins Second Uemura Shoen Award. Guest professor, Tama Art University. Using nature as a motif, she conjures scenes in transition with a delicate touch and graceful palette. Hori changed residence in the spirit of an itinerant lifestyle, consistently pioneering a new work style as she revisited certain places. In addition to painting, she also worked on picture books as well as book cover designs and illustrations.

His paintings are informed by imaginative and colorful tones of surprising depth. This distinct expression, free of past Nihonga formulae or basic approach, presents a unique and intimate realm of Nihonga. In addition to representative masterworks, this exhibition of new paintings showcases an artist who expresses visual poems through a complex métier.

Kazuo Yoshizawa 1954~
Born in Kanazawa Prefecture. Enters and wins awards in many publicly sponsored as well as competition exhibitions. Yoshizawa has undertaken a wide range of fields, from high-school textbook cover art to singer Masashi Sada’s CD jackets and stained glass at Odawara Station. His recent work includes creating an original drawing for the stage curtain of Odawara Sannomaru Hall (formerly, Odawara Municipal Hall) scheduled to open in September 2021.

This signature exhibition of works from the Narukawa Art Museum collection will give viewers an enlarged sense of the breadth and depth of contemporary Japanese painting. Exhibited are works by Takashi Asada, Sho Ishimoto, Matazo Kayama, Yukihiko Kurihara, Yasushi Sugiyama, Yuki Sekiguchi, Tatsuo Takayama, Toshio Tabuchi, Kazuho Hieda, Kaii Higashiyama, Ikuo Hirayama, Sawato Fukui, Taimei Hori, Rieko Morita and Kyujin Yamamoto.