Charles Lang Freer and American Art

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Summary

Assesses the relation of Freer's American Art collection to his Asian Art holdings and the "spiritual, synthetic system of aesthetics rather than an analytical one" that Freer followed.

Subject

  • Freer, Charles Lang 1854-1919
  • Whistler, James McNeill 1834-1903
  • Freer Gallery of Art

Category

Smithsonian Institution History Bibliography

Notes

Entire issue devoted to "Charles Lang Freer as a Connoisseur."

Contained within

Apollo Vol. vol. 118, no. 258 (Journal)

Contact information

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

Date

August 1983

Topic

  • Benefactors
  • Art, American
  • National Collections

Physical description

pp. 169-79

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