The Freer Gallery
An exceptional and amazing gallery in the center of National Mall in Washington DC.
This gallery houses the remarkable collection of Asian art.
The Freer Gallery contains also significant collection of American art with the famous Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room by American artist James McNeill Whistler.
In the Freer Gallery there are also over 26,000 objects dating from Neolithic times
to the early 20th century.
to the early 20th century.
"Before the Peacock Room became a work of art by James McNeill Whistler, it was the dining room in the London mansion of Frederick Leyland. Its shelves were designed to showcase the British shipping magnate’s collection of Chinese blue-and-white porcelain. Whistler completely redecorated the room in 1876 and 1877 as a “harmony in blue and gold.” Leyland was far from pleased with the transformation and the artist’s fee. He quarreled with Whistler, but he kept the room intact.
Charles Lang Freer purchased the room in 1904. He had it taken apart, shipped across the Atlantic, and reassembled in his home in Detroit, Michigan. There, he gradually filled its shelves with ceramics collected from Syria, Iran, Japan, China and Korea. For Freer, the Peacock Room embodied his belief that “all works of art go together, whatever their period.”
Whistler’s extravagant interior has been on permanent display here since the Freer Gallery of Art opened in 1923. Located between galleries of Chinese and American art, the Peacock Room remains a place where Asia meets America."
information from Freer Gallery of Art
Charles Lang Freer - Museum founder was an American industrialist well known as a collector of Asian art.
The Freer Gallery has a great collection of Japanese screens. Nearly 200 screens are on the permanent rotating exhibition. They are dated from 15th century to the 19 century.
Spring blooms in cherry blossoms on Japanese screens at the Freer Gallery of Art
Snow Japanese screens at the Freer Gallery of Art
The arts of South Asia and the Himalayas in Freer Gallery
The South Asia and the Himalayas is a region of many religious traditions and is the birthplace of Hinduism and Buddhism.
This region includes India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and Tibet.
In Freer Gallery there are more than 1,200 objects showing the rich and diverse sacred traditions
of this region.
Early 2nd century BC - A Royal Couple Visits the Buddha
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1097 - Shrine with Twenty-Four Jinas
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Four Scenes from the Life of Buddha - late 2nd-early 3rd century
12th century - Nandi the Bull
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