Freer Exhibits Chinese Pieces in Chicago

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Summary

Charles Lang Freer lends the Art Institute of Chicago a collection of Chinese sculptures, paintings and jades for an exhibition. The exhibition ends December 8 of the same year.

Subject

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

Category

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Notes

Lawton, Thomas and Linda Merrill. Freer. A Legacy of Art. Washington, D.C. Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution in association with Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1993., p. 225.

Contact information

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

Date

November 15, 1917

Topic

  • Loans
  • Art
  • Art, Oriental
  • Collectors and collecting
  • Museums
  • History
  • Art--History
  • Art objects
  • Museum exhibits

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