Photographic portrait of Ernest Fenollosa
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: FSA A.01 12.03.02
name: label: Collector
content: Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919
label: Names
content: Fenollosa, Ernest Francisco, 1853-1908
label: Names
content: Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919
label: Collection Creator
content: Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919
creator: label: Collector
content: Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919
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content: Charles Lang Freer Papers
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content: Charles Lang Freer Papers / Series 12: Photographs / 12.3: Portraits of Others
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Ernest Francisco Fenollosa (1853-1908) was a poet and student of Asian art. Born in Salem, Massachusetts, Fenollosa studied at Harvard, Cambridge University and the art school at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts before traveling to Japan to teach political economy and philosophy at the Imperial University at Tokyo. In 1988, he helped establish the Tokyo Fine Arts Academy and the Imperial Museum, serving as its director. For his many efforts to preserve temples and shrines and their art work, the Emperor of Japan decorated him with the orders of the Rising Sun and the Sacred Mirror. In 1890 Fenollosa returned to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts to take the position of curator of the department of Oriental arts. However, his public divorce and immediate remarriage in 1895 to the writer Mary McNeill Scott (1865-1954) led to his dismissal from the Museum in 1896 and he returned to Japan to teach English literature at the Tokyo Higher Normal School. He returned to the United States in 1900 to write and lecture on Asia. His works include East and West: The Discovery of America and Other Poems (1893); Epochs of Chinese and Japanese Art (1912), compiled by his widow, Mary McNeil Fenollosa; and two works on Japanese drama (ed. by Ezra Pound, 1916).
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Item (photographic print)
unitdate: label: Date
content: ca. 1890s
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: FSA.A.01, Item FSA A.01 12.03.02
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Portraits
label: Type
content: Photographs
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Stored in one box.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Portraits -- Men
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: One studio portrait of the scholar and writer Ernest Fenollosa (1853-1908), likely presented to his patron, Charles Lang Freer.