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Accession 01-220
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Office of Public Affairs
Clippings, 1915-1998
Descriptive Entry
These records document the publicity generated by, for, and about the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, their collections, exhibitions, and events. Please note that clippings and notices carried in a variety of media are recorded in these records. "Press Reports" are a compilation of clippings from various sources bound together in a single volume. The bulk of the collection was assembled and maintained by Susan Bliss, Head of Public Affairs (c. 1988-2000).
Items of special interest include death notices of Agnes Elizabeth Ernst Meyer (1887-1970), Freer's friend and member of the Freer Visiting Committee, and the rediscovery and acquisition of Henri Vener's collection by the Sackler. Exhibitions and events of special interest include the reopening of the Freer following its renovation; "Yani: The Brush of Innocence;" "The Noble Path: Buddhist Art in South Asia and Tibet;" and "Whistler in Japan."
Materials include newspaper clippings, press releases, and magazine clippings.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- Meyer, Agnes Elizabeth Ernst, 1887-1970
- Vever, Henri, 1854-1942
- Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903
- Freer Gallery of Art
- Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)
- Yani: The Brush of Innocence (Exhibition) (1989: Washington, D.C.)
- James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art (Exhibition) (1984: Washington, D.C.)
- Brush of the Masters: Drawings from India and Iran (Exhibition) (1979: Washington, D.C.)
- Calligraphy: In Pursuit of the Trace of the Brush (Exhibition) (1980: Washington, D.C.)
- Drinking in the Beauty of Japanese Ceramics (Exhibition) (1983: Washington, D.C.)
- Quest for the Ten-Headed Demon (Exhibition) (1983: Washington, D.C.)
- From Concept ot Context: Approaches to Asian and Islamic Calligraphy (Exhibition) (1986: Washington, D.C.)
- Wonders of Creation, Oddities of Existence: An Exhibition in Celebration of Halley's Comet (Exhibition) (1986: Washington, D.C.)
- Islamic Metal Work (Exhibition) (1986: Washington, D.C.)
- Glazed Ceramic Traditions of Seto and Mino Wares (Exhibition) (1985: Washington, D.C.)
- Arts of South Asia (Exhibition) (1985: Washington, D.C.)
- Korean Influences on Japanese Ceramics (Exhibition) (1984: Washington, D.C.)
- Kyoto Ceramics (Exhibition) (1984-1985: Washington, D.C.)
- Autumn Colors (Exhibition) (1984: Washington, D.C.)
- Japanese Ceramics Past and Present (Exhibition) (1983: Washington, D.C.)
- Chinese Flower Painting (Exhibition) (1983: Washington, D.C.)
- Studies in Connoiseurship, 1923-1983 (Exhibition) (1983-1984: Washington, D.C.)
- Adventures of Rama (Exhibition) (1983: Washington, D.C.)
- Chinese Scholar's Studio (Exhibition) (1988: Washington, D.C.)
- Variations on a Script: Islamic Calligraphy from the Vever Collection (Exhibition) (1990: Washington, D.C.)
- Art of Painting a Story: Narrative Images from Iran (Exhibition) (1991-1992: Washington, D.C.)
- Paper and Clay from Modern Japan (Exhibition) (1990-1991: Washington, D.C.)
- Antoin Sevruguin: Portraits from Iran, 1880-1920 (Exhibition) (1990-1991: Washington, D.C.)
- Goyo: Japanese Prints (Exhibition) (1995-1996: Washington, D.C.)
- Masterpieces of Chinese Calligraphy (Exhibition) (1994: Washington, D.C.)
- Korean Arts of the Eighteenth Century (Exhibition) (1995-1996: Washington, D.C.)
- Ancient Egyptian Glass (Exhibition) (1994: Washington, D.C.)
- On the River (Exhibition) (1995: Washington, D.C.)
- Golden Age of Sculpture from Sri Lanka (Exhibition) (1992-1993: Washington, D.C.)
- Ancient Japan (Exhibition) (1992: Washington, D.C.)
- When Kingship Descended from Heaven: Masterpieces of Mesopotamian Art from the Louvre (Exhibition) (1992: Washington, D.C.)
- Crushed Lapis and Burnished Gold: The Art of Illumination (Exhibtion) (1991: Washington, D.C.)
- Landscape as Cuture: Photographs of Lois Connor (Exhibition) (1994-1995: Washington, D.C.)
- Porcelain from Japan (Exhibition) (1993-1994: Washington, D.C.)
- Whistler in Japan (Exhibition) (1994-1996: Washington, D.C.)
- Twelve Centuries of Art from the Imperial Court (Exhibition) (1997-1998: Washington, D.C.)
- Sakhi (Exhibition) (1998: Washington, D.C.)
- Ikat: Splendid Silks of Central Asia (Exhibition) (1998: Washington, D.C.)
- Buddha's Art of Healing (Exhibition) (1998-1999: Washington, D.C.)
- Paintings from Shiraz (Exhibition) (1994-1995: Washington, D.C.)
- Mughal Hunt (Exhibition) (1994-1995: Washington, D.C.)
- Divine World of Islam (Exhibition) (1993: Washington, D.C.)
- Jewel of the Rose: Art of the Shah Jahan (Exhibition) (1993: Washington, D.C.)
- Basketmaker in Rural Japan (Exhibition) (1994-1995: Washington, D.C.)
- Joined Colors: Decoration and Meaning in Chinese Porcelain (Exhibition) (1991-1992: Washington, D.C.)
- Courts of Indonesia (Exhibition) (1991: Washington, D.C.)
- America Meets Asia, Freer Gallery of Art (Exhibition) (1993: Washington, D.C.)
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Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 01-220, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Office of Public Affairs, Clippings