SOURCE: A review of "Epochs of Chinese and Japanese Art: An Outline History of East Asiatic Designs", by Ernest Fenollosa, in Yale Review, Vol. III, No. 1, October, 1913, pp. 197-201.

In the following essay, Williams praises the author's scholarship, and agrees with his hypothesis that all art derived from two principle locations in the Mediterranean and the Western Pacific

Twenty years ago the author of these sumptuous volumes, [Epochs of Chinese and Japanese Art: An Outline History of East Asiatic Design.], in a lecture before the Yale Art School, threw upon the screen a photograph of Kano Utanosuke's "Eagle on a Pine Branch." "There," he declared, "is one of the greatest paintings by an Asiatic artist. Why do I say only this? It is the greatest painting ever produced by any artist at all!" Fenollosa's voice, while he lived, was that of one crying in the wilderness of Western...