Collection

The main building of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (MOMAT) houses a collection of artworks that dates from the end of the 19th century to the present. As of the time of writing (December 2022), the extensive collection has more than 13,000 objects including paintings, prints, watercolors, drawings, sculptures (three-dimensional objects), photographs, videos, calligraphy, and related materials. While the collection is centered on modern Japanese art, the museum also collects contemporary artwork from overseas.

Introduction to the Collection MOMAT Collection

All Collections12,044

YASUI, Nakaji

(Yamane Circus: Horse and Girls) from Nakaji Yasui Portfolio

1940 (printed 2010)

OHTSUJI, Kiyoji

Model Airplane Meeting

c.1940-43 (printed 1998)

OHTSUJI, Kiyoji

Boy Playing Baseball

c.1940-43 (printed 1998)

OHTSUJI, Kiyoji

Clouds Photographed from Upstairs

c.1940-43 (printed 1998)

OHTSUJI, Kiyoji

Instrument Screens

c.1940-43 (printed 1998)

OHTSUJI, Kiyoji

Kite-flying

c.1940-43 (printed 1998)

OHTSUJI, Kiyoji

Women

c.1940-43 (printed 1998)

LAUGHLIN, Clarence John

Elegy for the Old South

1940

OHTSUJI, Kiyoji

A Warehouse Surviving the Airraid from Ohtsuji Kiyoji Portfolio

1940s (printed 1997)

SHIIHARA, Osamu

Children

1940

SHIIHARA, Osamu

Parallel (Average)

1940

SHIIHARA, Osamu

Zebra

1940

No image

SHIGETA, Harry K.

Carol B

1940

No image

SHIGETA, Harry K.

Cheeses

1940

No image

SHIGETA, Harry K.

“Say Ah!”

c.1940s

No image

SHIGETA, Harry K.

Landscape of Rock at Night

c.1940s

No image

SHIGETA, Harry K.

Farmer

c.1940s

No image

SHIGETA, Harry K.

Men Seeing

c.1940s

No image

SHIGETA, Harry K.

Portrait

c.1940s

SHIGETA, Harry K.

Photo-Caricature, Mussolini

1940

SHIGETA, Harry K.

Photo-Caricature, Hitler

1940

SHIGETA, Harry K.

Photo-Caricature, Neville Chamberlain

1940

SHIGETA, Harry K.

Photo-Caricature, Stalin

1940

SHIGETA, Harry K.

Photo-Caricature, F. D. Roosevelt

1940

SHIGETA, Harry K.

Self-Portrait

1940

No image

SHIGETA, Harry K.

Sands of Sangatuck

1940

AKAGI, Yasunobu

Mt. Fuji at Dawn, Scene from the Daibosatsu Pass

1940

AKAGI, Yasunobu

Sakurajima in Summer

1940

HIRATSUKA, Un'ichi

Stone Buddha at Usuki

1940

SEKINO, Jun'ichiro

Pomegranates

1940

SEKINO, Jun'ichiro

Mackerel

1940

KAWASE, Hasui

Dahlias

1940

KAWASE, Hasui

Grape and Apples

1940

KAWASE, Hasui

Shore of Nishikigaura, Atami

1940

KAWASE, Hasui

Benten Island, Tomonotsu, Bingo

1940

KAWASE, Hasui

Nihombashi Bridge (Dawn) from Scenes from the Tokaido Highway

1940

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