FGA Receives Gift from Lam Foundation

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Summary

The Freer Gallery of Art receives $1.5 million from the B.Y. Lam Foundation of Hong Kong to acquire Chinese works of art. The gift is the largest from a single donor that the gallery has received since it opened to the public in 1923.

Subject

  • B.Y. Lam Foundation
  • Freer Gallery of Art

Category

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Notes

Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for the year 1992. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993, p. 43.

Contact information

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

Date

1992

Topic

  • Art
  • Art museums
  • Art, Oriental
  • Gifts
  • Art objects
  • Art, Chinese

Place

Hong Kong (China)

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