| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,810,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,110,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This research investigates the mutual influence of painter and patron on each other in Japanese art, focusing on J. McN. Whistler and his two patrons, a wealthy banker, William Cleverly Alexander and Detroit industrialist and founder of the Freer Gallery of Art, Charles Lang Freer. It is known that Whistler’s patrons, first W. C. Alexander and later C.L. Freer, collected not only Whistler’s works but also Oriental art from various places including Japan. Alexander’s Japanese art collection influenced Whistler’s work while Whistler’s Japonisme helped to shape Freer’s understanding of the “universality of beauty” in the east and west and thus his extensive collection of art work from around the world.
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