Mate to Chinese Painting Given to Freer
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PrintExactly one hundered years after Charles Lang Freer bought his first Chinese painting, "Herons and Water Plants," the Freer Gallery of Art was given a mate to the painting. The second painting was discovered, identified, purchased, and donated by Kyoichi Itoh, an East Asian painting conservator on the Freer staff.
Chronology of Smithsonian History
Annals of the Smithsonian Institution, 1994. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994, p. 16.
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
December 1993