The Pola Museum of Art and the Hiroshima Museum of Art are pleased to present this joint exhibition: Impressionism—Light and Memory. Both museums are highly esteemed in and outside Japan for their collections of French modern art assembled post-war. The two collections contain works by painters prominent in the development of Western modern art, most notably their excellent body of paintings by the Impressionists. This exhibition has selected 73 masterpieces from the collections of the museums— centered on French Impressionist landscapes but also including various other works by artists ranging from Delacroix and Corot to Picasso and Matisse—in order to explore themes including the importance of travel and memory for