FGA Acquires Chinese Calligraphy Collection
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PrintFreer Gallery of Art acquires a collection of Chinese calligraphy through the Regents' program for acquisitions of outstanding quality. It includes 12 hanging and hand scrolls and is the Freer's first acquisition under the 5-year program established in 1978 by the Board of Regents, which authorized the Institution to use a combination of non-appropriated trust funds and private matching funds to make major acquisitions of "outstanding quality."
Chronology of Smithsonian History
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
November 2, 1979