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The Freer and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery together form the National Museum of Asian Art in the United States. [2] The Freer and Sackler galleries house the largest Asian art research library in the country and contain art from East Asia , South Asia , Southeast Asia , the Islamic world , the ancient Near East , and ancient Egypt , as well as ...
The Freer and Sackler, along with the Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Art Studies in Kyoto, Japan, presents the Shimada Prize for distinguished scholarship in the history of East Asian art. The award was established in 1992 in honor of Professor Shimada Shujiro, by the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and by The ...
The National Museum of Asian Art consists of the Smithsonian Institution’s two Asian art galleries, the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, [1] which are situated in connecting buildings on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The galleries are operated by the same board of trustees and share a budget.
Charles Lang Freer was born in Kingston, New York, United States, in 1856. [2] He was the son of Jacob Roosa Freer (1819-1875) and Phoebe Jane Townsend Freer (1826-1868). He is a direct descendant of Hugo Freer, a New Paltz patentee and the first Freer to the United Sta
360° panorama. Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room (better known as The Peacock Room [1]) is a work of interior decorative art created by James McNeill Whistler and Thomas Jeckyll, translocated to the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Whistler painted the paneled room in a unified palette of blue-greens with over-glazing and metallic gold leaf.
Freer Gallery of Art (affiliated with the Sackler Gallery) Asian art: Washington, D.C. National Mall: 1923 [9] Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: Contemporary and modern art: Washington, D.C. National Mall: 1974 [12] National Air and Space Museum: Aviation and spaceflight history Washington, D.C. National Mall: 1946, 1976 [note 1] [13 ...
J. Keith Wilson is an American Asian art curator. He is the Associate Director and curator of Ancient Chinese art at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. Wilson is the former chief curator of Asian art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). [1]
2011 "Timely Images: Chinese Art and Festival Display", Proceedings of the British Academy Volume 167, 2009 Lectures, 2011. 2001 (with Evelyn S. Rawski) Worshipping the Ancestors: Chinese Commemorative Portraits, Washington, DC and Stanford, CA: Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in association with Stanford University Press, ISBN 08047 4262 6