Robert Feinberg was educated at Harvard College and Oxford University where he earned a Ph.D. in chemistry in 1965. For more than 40 years, the Feinbergs have dedicated themselves to studying and collecting Japanese art. In his introduction to the catalogue accompanying the exhibition, Dr. Feinberg recalls that he and his wife trace their interest in Japanese art back to a visit to the Metropolitan Museum in 1972 when, as perhaps their first acquisition in Japanese art, they bought a $2 poster of a 16th-century screen painting depicting a Portuguese ship arriving in Japan, very much like the actual pair of screens now in the exhibition.

Exhibition Credits

The exhibition in New York is organized by John T. Carpenter, Curator of Japanese Art in the Department of Asian Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.