Sherman Lee

Sherman Emery Lee was director of the Cleveland Museum of Art from 1958-1983, and Asian art expert. Over the course of his career as scholar, curator, and director, he assembled for the museum one of the best Asian art collections in the United States, organized numerous groundbreaking exhibitions, and authored numerous scholarly texts, including the widely-used textbook History of Far Eastern Art.

References

• "U.S. collection of Japanese art returns to exhibit in Tokyo," Asahi Shimbun, 22 Jan 2014.