"Art collectors continuously shape and reshape our view of the artistic past, determining what later generations are able to see and how they see it. Between 1912 and 1943, the Canadian-American John C. Ferguson led a public career in Republican China tha

"Missionary, dealer, collector, and scholar, John Ferguson aspired to the lifestyle and status of a Chinese literatus and was the first Westerner to seriously collect calligraphy as well as Ming and Qing painting. Lara Netting's meticulously researched st

Lara Jaishree Netting received her PhD in East Asian Studies at Princeton University in 2009. She has held a Getty Fellowship at the Asia Society Museum and the J. Clawson Mills Fellowship at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.