群馬県立館林美術館

Yamanaka Gen

The painter and printmaker Yamanaka Gen (b. 1954) is from Kitakata-shi, Fukushima. Ever since completing the printmaking course at the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts in 1980, he has energetically been creating works full of tranquility and warmth, which enchant numerous fans. From a group of works donated to our museum by a collector, a choice selection of approximately 240 works is shown in public for the first time. There are early woodblock prints based on black and white, recent colorful woodblock prints, glass paintings, and oil paintings.