Ernest Francisco Fenollosa was an American art historian of Japanese art, professor of philosophy and political economy at Tokyo Imperial University. An important educator during the modernization of Japan during the Meiji Era, Fenollosa was an enthusiastic Orientalist who did much to preserve traditional Japanese art.
Fenollosa in 1890
Title page of Cathay, poems by Ezra Pound, 1915, based on translations by Fenollosa.
Fenollosa's grave, Hōmyō-in chapel of Mii-dera, Otsu
Memorial to Ernest Fenollosa in Highgate Cemetery, London
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Museum of Fine Arts is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It is the 20th-largest art museum in the world, measured by public gallery area. It contains 8,161 paintings and more than 450,000 works of art, making it one of the most comprehensive collections in the Americas. With more than 1.2 million visitors a year, it is the 79th–most visited art museum in the world as of 2022.
Museum of Fine Arts main entrance with the Appeal to the Great Spirit statue in the foreground
The original Museum of Fine Arts building in Copley Square
Rose Garden and Museum of Fine Arts, Fenway, June 14, 1934.
The Shapiro Courtyard, which houses Dale Chihuly's Lime Green Icicle Tower (right), is used to host large banquets and other events.