Peacock Room Moved to Washington
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PrintCharles Lang Freer purchased James McNeill Whistler's "Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room" in 1904 and had it installed in his home in Detroit the following year. In 1919, the room is removed from Freer's home and erected in the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
Chronology of Smithsonian History
The Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution. The Whistler Peacock Room. Baltimore, MD: The Lord Baltimore Press, 1951., p. 14.
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
1919