The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Rays
Dr. Felice Fischer
The Luther W. Brady Curator of Japanese Art and
Senior Curator of East Asian Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA
Senior Curator of East Asian Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA
1. General History
1967: M.A. Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
1972: Ph.D. Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
1972: Curatorial Assistant, Far Eastern Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art
1974: Assistant Curator, Far Eastern Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art
1987: Associate Curator, Far Eastern Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art
1992: Curator of Japanese Art and Acting Curator of East Asian Art
1996: The Luther W. Brady Curator of Japanese Art and Acting Curator of East Asian Art
2001: The Luther W. Brady Curator of Japanese Art and Senior Curator of East Asian Art
1967: M.A. Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
1972: Ph.D. Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
1972: Curatorial Assistant, Far Eastern Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art
1974: Assistant Curator, Far Eastern Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art
1987: Associate Curator, Far Eastern Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art
1992: Curator of Japanese Art and Acting Curator of East Asian Art
1996: The Luther W. Brady Curator of Japanese Art and Acting Curator of East Asian Art
2001: The Luther W. Brady Curator of Japanese Art and Senior Curator of East Asian Art
2. Overview of Achievements
Dr. Felice Fischer is the Luther W. Brady Curator of Japanese Art and Senior Curator of East Asian Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which is among the largest art museums in the United States. Its collections hold more than 227,000 objects which include "world-class holdings of European and American paintings, prints, drawings, and decorative arts."
Dr. Fischer received her B.A. from Barnard College and her Ph.D. from the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University, specializing in classical Japanese literature. She has been a member of the curatorial staff of the Philadelphia Museum of Art since 1972. During her tenure with the Museum, Dr. Fischer has installed a range of exhibitions, including Southeast Asian Ceramics in 1977, Japanese Landscape Painting in 1997, Hon`ami Koetsu, Japanese Renaisance Master in 2000, Munkata Shiko in 2004, Ike Taiga and Tokuyama Gyokuran, Japanese Masters of the Brush in 2007 and The Art of Japanese Craft (1875 to the Present) in 2008-09. All with significant designated National Treasures and Important Cultural Properties introduced for the American audience to experience Japanese art at its best. At present she is organizing an exhibition called Ink and Gold, Art of the Kano (for spring 2015).
In 1994, Dr. Fischer and Dr. Kathryn Hiesinger co-organized the major museum project, Japanese Design: A Survey Since 1950, and co-authored the accompanying award-winning catalogue, which was translated into German, Italian, French, and Japanese. Japanese Design traveled to three European venues, as well as to Japan.
Throughout her tenure at the Museum, Dr. Fischer has traveled widely throughout Japan. She has been a member of the International Advisory Panel at the Kyoto National Museum and curatorial liaison at the Tokyo National Museum for its National Gallery of Art. She is a founding member of the board of the Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia, an advisory board member of Shōfūsō Japanese House and Garden in Philadelphia and member of Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission, Arts Dialogue Committee [CULCON Committee] in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Fischer is the author of several issues of the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Bulletin, including Meiji Painting from the Fenollosa Collection (1992), and Japanese Buddhist Art (1991), as well as the editor of the Japanese-language edition of the Museum's Handbook of the Collections (1999), Japanese Painting and Sculpture at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (Tokyo: Association of Scientific Research on Historic and Artistic Works of Japan, 1993), and Phila-Nipponica: An Historic Guide to Philadelphia and Japan (Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia, 1999). She has also written about other aspects of the Museum's collection of East Asian art, including a survey of "Classical Carpets in Philadelphia" for Hali magazine (1996).
Through outstanding efforts like these, for more than 40 years, Dr. Fischer has made important contributions to the level of mutual understanding and friendship in the exchange of art and culture shared between the people of Japan and the United States.
Dr. Felice Fischer is the Luther W. Brady Curator of Japanese Art and Senior Curator of East Asian Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which is among the largest art museums in the United States. Its collections hold more than 227,000 objects which include "world-class holdings of European and American paintings, prints, drawings, and decorative arts."
Dr. Fischer received her B.A. from Barnard College and her Ph.D. from the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University, specializing in classical Japanese literature. She has been a member of the curatorial staff of the Philadelphia Museum of Art since 1972. During her tenure with the Museum, Dr. Fischer has installed a range of exhibitions, including Southeast Asian Ceramics in 1977, Japanese Landscape Painting in 1997, Hon`ami Koetsu, Japanese Renaisance Master in 2000, Munkata Shiko in 2004, Ike Taiga and Tokuyama Gyokuran, Japanese Masters of the Brush in 2007 and The Art of Japanese Craft (1875 to the Present) in 2008-09. All with significant designated National Treasures and Important Cultural Properties introduced for the American audience to experience Japanese art at its best. At present she is organizing an exhibition called Ink and Gold, Art of the Kano (for spring 2015).
In 1994, Dr. Fischer and Dr. Kathryn Hiesinger co-organized the major museum project, Japanese Design: A Survey Since 1950, and co-authored the accompanying award-winning catalogue, which was translated into German, Italian, French, and Japanese. Japanese Design traveled to three European venues, as well as to Japan.
Throughout her tenure at the Museum, Dr. Fischer has traveled widely throughout Japan. She has been a member of the International Advisory Panel at the Kyoto National Museum and curatorial liaison at the Tokyo National Museum for its National Gallery of Art. She is a founding member of the board of the Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia, an advisory board member of Shōfūsō Japanese House and Garden in Philadelphia and member of Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission, Arts Dialogue Committee [CULCON Committee] in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Fischer is the author of several issues of the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Bulletin, including Meiji Painting from the Fenollosa Collection (1992), and Japanese Buddhist Art (1991), as well as the editor of the Japanese-language edition of the Museum's Handbook of the Collections (1999), Japanese Painting and Sculpture at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (Tokyo: Association of Scientific Research on Historic and Artistic Works of Japan, 1993), and Phila-Nipponica: An Historic Guide to Philadelphia and Japan (Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia, 1999). She has also written about other aspects of the Museum's collection of East Asian art, including a survey of "Classical Carpets in Philadelphia" for Hali magazine (1996).
Through outstanding efforts like these, for more than 40 years, Dr. Fischer has made important contributions to the level of mutual understanding and friendship in the exchange of art and culture shared between the people of Japan and the United States.
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