A Yellow Bird Perched on a Passion Flower

Howard Mansfield (1849-1938), Seal Harbor, ME, by April 4, 1932 [1];

Purchased from Mansfield, through Langdon Warner, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1932.

NOTES:

[1] Letter from Howard Mansfield to Langdon Warner, April 4, 1932, Harvard University Pusey Library, Langdon Warner Personal Archive, HUG 4872.1010, box 12, folder 14, copy in Nelson-Atkins curatorial files. Howard Mansfield was a lawyer who collected Asian art and the prints of James Whistler. According to the Archives Directory for the History of Collecting, Frick Art Reference Library, he was a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and served as its first acting curator of Asian art prior to the appointment of the Met's first staff curator.