This is a selection of historic images of the Freer Gallery of Art, founded by Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919). The museum of Asian art opened to the public on May 9, 1923. The Freer is an Italian ...

Branch of Hibiscus by Wang Yuan / Gift of Charles Lang Freer / Freer Gallery of Art, SI While visiting Shanghai in 1912, the American railroad-car magnate Charles Lang Freer purchased an ink ...

Why not perfection? That thought didn’t merely cross the mind of American connoisseur Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919) when he was assembling his great collection of art; it took up permanent ...

This is a selection of historic images of the Freer Gallery of Art, founded by Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919). The museum of Asian art opened to the public on May 9, 1923. The Freer is an Italian ...