FENOLLOSA Winter Woods Signed Oil 1800s Painting, Frame

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Double your traffic. FENOLLOSA "Winter Woods" Signed Oil 1800s Painting, Frame Original Signed by Artist, Framed, UACC RD #228 Ernest Francisco Fenollosa Original Antique Signed Oil on Canvas entitled "WINTER WOODS" Displayed in a beautiful large Vintage Gold Frame A Great ARTIST....A Beautiful Piece of Signed ART, Framed & Ready to Hang. As an Art Collector, TV & Movie DIRECTOR and a lifetime member of the Director's Guild of America, (D.G.A.) I am offering some rare ARTWORK & PROPS from art galleries and the sets of Hollywood movies that can be found right here on EBAY! You are bidding on an 100 year old Original Signed Ernest Francisco Fenollosa Original OIL PAINTING on Canvas entitled "WINTER WOODS." Ernest Francisco Fenollosa Ernest Francisco Fenollosa ( February 18, 1853 - September 21, 1908) was an American professor of philosophy and political economy at Tokyo Imperial University. An important educator during the modernization of the Meiji Era, Fenollosa was an enthusiastic orientalist who did much to preserve traditional Japanese art. Fenollosa was the son of Manuel Francisco Ciriaco Fenollosa and Mary Silsbee (Fenollosa) and attended Hacker Grammar School in Salem, Massachusetts, and the Salem High School before graduating from Harvard College in the class of 1874. He then studied at Cambridge University in philosophy and divinity. After a year at the art school at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, during which time he married Lizzie Goodhue Millett, he traveled to Japan in 1878 at the invitation of American zoologist and Orientalist Edward S. Morse to teach political economy and philosophy at the Imperial University at Tokyo. There he studied ancient temples, shrines and art treasures with his assistant, Okakura Kakuzō. During his time in Japan, Fenollosa helped revive the Nihonga (Japanese) style of painting with Japanese artists Kanō Hōgai (1828-1888) and Hashimoto Gahō (1835-1908). After eight years at the University, he helped found the Tokyo Fine Arts Academy and the Imperial Museum, then acting as its director in 1888. Fenollosa converted to Buddhism and changed his name to Tei-Shin, also adopting the name Kanō Yeitan Masanobu, suggesting that he had been admitted into the ancient Japanese art academy of the Kanō. While resident in Japan, Fenollosa's accomplishments included the first inventory of Japan's national treasures, leading to the discovery of ancient Chinese scrolls brought to Japan by traveling Zen monks centuries earlier. For these accomplishments, the Emperor of Japan decorated him with the orders of the Rising Sun and the Sacred Mirror. In 1886, he sold his art collection to Boston physician Charles Goddard Weld (1857-1911) on the condition that it go to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and in 1890 he returned to Boston to be its curator of the department of Oriental Art. There Fenollosa was asked to choose Japanese art for exhibition at the 1893 World Columbian Exposition in Chicago. He also organized Boston's first exhibition of Chinese painting in 1894. In 1896, he published Masters of Ukioye , a historical account of Japanese paintings and color prints exhibited at the New York Fine Arts Building. However, his public divorce and immediate remarriage in 1895 to the writer Mary McNeill Scott (1865-1954) outraged Boston society, leading to his dismissal from the Museum in 1896. In 1897 he journeyed back to Japan to accept a position as Professor of English Literature at the Tokyo Higher Normal School at Tokyo. After three years, though, he once again returned to the United States to write and lecture on Asia. His 1912 work in two volumes concentrates on art before 1800 but offers Hokusai's prints as a window of beauty after Japanese art had become too modern for Fenollosa's taste: " Hokusai is a great designer, as Kipling and Whitman are great poets. He has been called the Dickens of Japan." After his death, Fenollosa's unpublished notes on Chinese poe... read more

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