A Pioneer Collection of Korean Art

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Summary

Examines Freer's collection of Korean art, made between 1896 and 1919, and how this avid collecting of art from a nation virtually unknown in the West demonstrates his independent taste.

Subject

  • Freer, Charles Lang 1854-1919
  • Freer Gallery of Art

Category

Smithsonian Institution History Bibliography

Notes

Entire issue is devoted to Charles Lang Freer.

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

  • Art
  • Benefactors
  • Art, Oriental
  • Gifts
  • History
  • National Collections
  • Art objects
  • Art--History

Physical description

pp. 150-53

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