Wen C Fong was a Chinese-American historian of East Asian art.
12 Facts About Wen Fong
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Wen Fong was the Edwards S Sanford Professor of Art History at Princeton University, where he taught Chinese art history for 45 years.
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Wen Fong served as chairman of Princeton's Department of Art and Archaeology, and as consultative chairman for Asian art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
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Wen Fong enrolled at Shanghai Jiao Tong University before moving to the United States to study at Princeton University in 1948.
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Wen Fong was a curator at the Art Museum of Princeton University for Asian art, and helped build the John B Elliott Collection of Chinese Calligraphy, considered one of the best outside of China.
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Wen Fong retired from Princeton in 1999, after a 45-year career.
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Wen Fong subsequently taught at Tsinghua University from 2004 to 2007 and Zhejiang University from 2009 to 2012.
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From 1971 to 2000, Wen Fong served as a special consultant, and later consultative chairman, for Asian art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Cahill made an explosive argument that the painting was a fake created by the 20th-century master painter and forger Zhang Daqian, while Wen Fong disagreed with his finding.
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Wen Fong served as Corresponding Research Fellow at the Institute of History and Philology of Academia Sinica in Taiwan and was elected as an academician of Academia Sinica in 1992.
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Wen Fong was elected to the American Philosophical Society that same year.
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On October 3,2018, Wen Fong died in Princeton, New Jersey, of leukemia, aged 88.