American Ernest Fenollosa was the earliest Western devotee of Japanese culture, and did much to promote Japanese art — Hokusai's works featured prominently at his inaugural exhibition as first curator of Japanese art Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and in Tokyo in 1898 he curated the first ukiyo - e exhibition in Japan. (en.wikipedia.org)
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This exhibition brings together paintings that were collected by the gallery's first curators after the deaths of Annie and Merton Russell - Cotes in the 1920s. (artfund.org)