Kan Irie1935~ 入江観

Kan Irie (born 1935) is a Japanese Western-style oil painter from Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture. After graduating from Tokyo University of the Arts in 1957, he studied in France from 1962 as a French government scholarship recipient under Maurice Brianchon at the National School of Fine Arts. Influenced by Cezanne, he relocated to Chigasaki after returning to Japan and became known for his paintings of the Shonan coastline featuring seas and blue skies. He is a professor emeritus of Joshibi University of Art and Design and a member of the Shunyo-kai art association. He received the Miyamoto Saburo Memorial Prize in 1996 and the Order of the Sacred Treasure in 2017.