 Morse collected ancient ceramics, Bigelow collected armor, and Fenollosa, often with Bigelow's financial help, collected paintings.Returning to the United States, Bigelow donated approximately 75,000 objects of Japanese art to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.His collections, along with those of Morse and Fenollosa (the latter paid for by Charles Goddard Weld) Okakura, and a handful of others, made the newly founded Department of the Art of Asia at the Museum of Fine Arts the largest collection of Japanese art anywhere outside Japan; a distinction it still holds today.