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272 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-267) and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword / Milo Cleveland Beach -- Acquired taste -- The Whistler Collection -- The Asian tours -- Colleagues and dealers -- Freer and Fenollosa -- The American Renaissance -- Composing the collection -- The late years -- The Washington Building -- Chronology, Charles Lang Freer. |
| Summary |
Charles Lang Freer, whose original gift to the nation in 1906 formed the basis of a singular collection of Asian art, realized in his collection a link between East and West matched only in James McNeill Whistler's Peacock Room. On the occasion of the opening of the renovated Freer galleries at the Smithsonian, this book is a celebration of the man. It is part biography and part catalog, detailing both the development of a connoisseur and the creation of a collection. Numerous color illustrations give just a hint of the extraordinary scope of the galleries, truly a national treasure. |
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Freer, Charles Lang, 1854-1919.
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Freer Gallery of Art.
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Art patrons -- United States -- Biography.
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Freer, Charles Lang, 1854-1919 |
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Freer Gallery of Art |
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Art patrons |
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United States |
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Freer, Charles Lang 1854-1919 |
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Freer Gallery of Art Washington, DC |
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Biografie |
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Geschichte |
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Freer Gallery of Art (Smithsonian Institution) |
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Beeldende kunsten. |
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Freer, Charles Lang, (1854-1919) |
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Marchands d'oeuvres d'art -- États-Unis. |
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Freer, Charles Lang. |
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Washington (D.C.) -- Freer Gallery of Art. |
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Biography |
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Biographies |
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Biographies. |
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Biographies. |
| Added Author |
Merrill, Linda, 1959- author.
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Beach, Milo Cleveland, writer of foreword.
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Storage Art History Collection
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James (Jim) Louis Bisignano Art History Collection
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Marilyn Burnett Ross Collection.
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| Related To |
Online version: Lawton, Thomas, 1931- Freer. Washington, D.C. : Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution ; New York : in association with H.N. Abrams, ©1993 |
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Online version: Lawton, Thomas, 1931- Freer. Washington, D.C. : Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution ; New York : in association with H.N. Abrams, ©1993 |
| Standard No. |
28477840 28477918 779675602 1008228548 1391734930 |
| ISBN |
0810933152 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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9780810933156 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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0810925389 |
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9780810925380 |
| OCLC # |
26014187 |
| Gov't Document No. |
SI 7. 2/2: F 87 |
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