David Stanley Hewett is one of the most well-known foreign artists in Japan. In November 2017, Hewett’s painting, Majime, was selected as the gift from Akie Abe, the wife of Shinzo Abe, the Prime Minister of Japan, to the First Lady of the United States. In 2019, the painting was inducted into the National Archives Collection of the United States of America.Hewett’s works can be seen in the permanent collections of the Imperial Hotel, Oakwood Premier Tokyo, Okura Hotel Tokyo, and the city’s Peninsula Hotel, as well as numerous public and private collections around the world.