The is a prefectural museum in Shizuoka City, Japan, created in commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the inauguration of the Shizuoka Prefectural Assembly.
Founded in 1986, the 9.240 m<sup>2</sup> (99,458<sup>5</sup> ft<sup>2</sup>) museum is located in the vicinity of the University of Shizuoka's (éÂÂ岡çÂÂç«Â大å¦) Kusanagi campus, on a verdant hill on the northern side of the picturesque Nihondaira Plateau in the southern part of the city.
A promenade in the midst of a Sculpture Garden creates a pleasurable journey for visitors to the wooded site and leads right up to the main museum entrance. Twelve sculptures grace this main alleyway. Monumental work by American artists George Rickey, James Rosati and Tony Smith is complemented by work from Japanese sculptors such as Makio Yamaguchi (å±±å£ç§çÂÂ), Tadayoshi Sato (ä½Âè¤忠è¯), Kiyosumi Onishi (大西渠æ¾Â), Kubei Shimizu (渠水ä¹Âå µè¡Â), Takashi Sugimura (æÂÂæÂÂÃ¥ÂÂ), Goro Kakei (æÂÂäºÂäºÂéÂÂ), Hisao Suzuki (é´æ¨习éÂÂ), Yoshitatsu Yanagihara (æ³åÂÂ義éÂÂ) and Yasutake Funakoshi (èÂÂè¶Âä¿Âæ¦).
The Main Building houses a.o. a Gallery of Prefecture Residents with work from local Japanese artists, mostly of lesser interest to an international public.
The bulk of the collection on show is constituted mostly of Japanese and some Western works of art, primarily focused on landscape painting.<sup>,</sup> The museum also has a fine collection of Japanese drawings and prints, as well as a number of prints by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Marco Ricci, etc., and watercolours by Joseph Mallord William Turner and John Robert Cozens.
XVII<sup>th</sup>-C. and XVIII<sup>th</sup>-C landscape paintings by Hubert Robert, Claude Lorrain, Gaspard Dughet, Claude-Joseph Vernet and Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidauld constitute the earliest examples of the French School.
French early XIX<sup>th</sup>-C painting is represented by Gustave Courbet, Pierre ÃÂtienne Théodore Rousseau, Achille-Etna Michallon, and Alexandre-Hyacinthe Dunouy. Paintings by French Impressionists Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro, by Post-Impressionists Paul Cézanne, Paul Signac and Paul Gauguin, and by fauvist Maurice de Vlaminck complement the late XIX<sup>th</sup>-C collection.
The English masters John Constable and Samuel Palmer typify the early XIX<sup>th</sup>-C school of British landscape painting.
The Dutch school shows a number of XVII<sup>th</sup>-C works by masters such as Jakob van Ruysdael, Rembrandt Van Rijn, Aert van der Neer, Jan van Goyen and Adriaen van Ostade.
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The 400-year history of the Kanà  school is one of the main focuses of the museum.
Many depictions of Mount Fuji and the Tà Âkaidà  landscape by various Japanese painters can be viewed in the collection as is work by painters associated with the Tokugawa shogunate.
Most notable Japanese paintings are works by Taikan Yokoyama (横山 大観), a twentieth century painter, and Jakuchà « Ità  (ä¼Âè¤ èÂ¥å²), an eighteenth century (mid-Edo-period) master, who made a famous set of painted folding screens, called the , using a rare technique he invented, masume gaki (æ¡ç®æÂÂãÂÂ).
The museum has a number of sculptural works by 1960s artists from a group called GEN-SHOKU, i.e. , a local avant-garde city-based movement of the XXth century: Issei Koike (å°Âæ± ä¸Â誠), Shoji Iida (飯ç°æÂÂäºÂ), Yoshinori Suzuki (é´æ¨栶åÂÂ), Morichi Maeda (Ã¥ÂÂç°å®Âä¸Â) and Katsuji Niwa (丹羽åÂÂ次). Some of these artists became involved with later members of the Mono-ha movement.<sup>,</sup>
The main attraction of this museum is its lofty 3.025 m<sup>2</sup> (32,560 ft<sup>2</sup>) domed Rodin Wing (designed by the Shizuoka office of Nissoken Architects and Engineers, Tokyo) which opened in March 1994<sup>,</sup> and offers a splendid home to a collection of thirty-two sculptures by the renowned French artist Auguste Rodin, including certified versions of The Thinker, The Gates of Hell, The Burghers of Calais, ... and some Monuments to great artists, such as James McNeill Whistler, Claude Lorrain, Jules Bastien-Lepage, Charles Baudelaire or Honoré de Balzac.
In the Bridge Gallery, connecting the Main Building to the Rodin Wing, the spectator can experience a total of 51 sculptures, from periods before and after Rodin, by renowned sculptors such as: Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Antoine-Louis Barye, Jules Dalou, Emmanuel Frémiet, Medardo Rosso, Constantin Brancusi, Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, Jacques Lipchitz, Aristide Maillol, Antoine Bourdelle, Alexander Archipenko, Alberto Giacometti, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Henry Moore, Paul Gauguin, Ernst Barlach and Camille Claudel, Rodin's muse and one-time lover.
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