Laurence Sickman Receiving Freer Medal

ID: SIA2011-2824

Creator: Unknown

Form/Genre: Event

Date: September 11, 1973

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 02-007, Box 1, Folder: Freer Medal Sept. 1973-Laurence Sickman

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Summary

Along with an unidentified man, at the podium, Laurence Sickman, a connoisseur and scholar of Chinese art who built one of the world's best collections of Chinese paintings, sculpture and furniture at the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum of Fine Arts in Kansas City, Missouri, is being presented with the fifth Charles Lang Freer Medal.

Subject

  • Sickman, L. C. S (Laurence C. S.)
  • Charles Lang Freer Medal

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

See Neg. #s SIA2011-2822, SIA2011-2823, and SIA2011-2825 for additional photos of the award ceremony for Laurence Sickman.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 02-007, Box 1, Folder: Freer Medal Sept. 1973-Laurence Sickman

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

September 11, 1973

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

  • Rites and ceremonies
  • Art
  • Awards
  • History
  • Medals
  • Art, Asian
  • Art, Chinese
  • Ceremonies
  • Art--History

Form/Genre

  • Event
  • Photographic print
  • Group, candid

ID Number

SIA2011-2824

Physical description

Number of Images: 1 Color: Black and white Size: 7w x 5h Type of Image: Event; Group, candid; Medium: Photographic print

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