ART: ASIA: MUSEUM: EXHIBITIONS/COLLECTIONS: Freer and Sackler Galleries

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  Current Exhibitions: 
  Freer and Sackler Galleries
http://www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/default.htm

Featured Exhibitions

Caravan Kingdoms: Yemen and the Ancient Incense Trade
Through September 10, 2005

Small Masterpieces: Whistler Paintings from the 1880s
Continuing indefinitely

Cai Guo-Qiang—"Traveler"
Through July 31, 2005


Complete List of Exhibitions


American Art

The Peacock Room
Small Masterpieces: Whistler Paintings from the 1880s
James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903)
Art for Art's Sake


Ancient Egyptian Art

Small Glass Vessels and Sculpture Collected by Charles Lang Freer


Ancient Near Eastern Art

Caravan Kingdoms: Yemen and the Ancient Incense Trade


Arts of the Islamic World
In the Realm of Princes: The Arts of the Book in
     Fifteenth-Century Iran and Central Asia
Fountains of Light: Islamic Metalwork from the Nuhad
     Es-Said Collection
Arts of the Islamic World


Chinese Art
Chinese Mountains of Immortality: A Focused Look
Black & White Chinese Ceramics from the
     10th–14th Centuries
Cai Guo-Qiang—"Traveler"Boating on a River
The Arts of China
Chinese Pots for Tabletop Gardens
Ancient Chinese Pottery and Bronze
Xu Bing: Monkeys Grasping for the Moon


Japanese Art
Rusticity Refined: Kyoto Ceramics by Ninsei
Games, Contests, and Artful Play in Japan
Contemporary Japanese Porcelain
Japanese Screens


Korean Art
Korean Ceramics


South Asian and Himalayan Art
Arts of the Indian Subcontinent and the Himalayas
Sculpture of South and Southeast Asia


Southeast Asian Art
Vietnamese Ceramics


Art Across Asia
Luxury Arts of the Silk Route Empires




  Online Collection:
  Freer and Sackler Galleries
http://www.asia.si.edu/collections/default.htm


More than three thousand objects from our collection
are now available online. Check back often as we'll
be adding new works of art each month. Please note
that some of these objects may not be on view when
you visit the galleries.

American Art
Jmes McNeill Whistler's Peacock Room and works
by American master painters


Ancient Egyptian Art
Amulets, glass vessels, statuary from the Old, Middle,
and New Kingdoms


Ancient Near Eastern Art
Ancient Iranian ceramic vessels and sculptures, plus
Sasanian period silver


Arts of the Islamic World
Koran folios, illustrated and illuminated manuscripts,
metalwork, ceramics, and glass


Biblical Manuscripts
Greek parchment manuscripts and fragments from the
third to the sixth century


Chinese Art
Ancient bronzes, jades, Buddhist sculpture, ceramics,
lacquer, calligraphy, paintings, and seals


Japanese Art
Folding screens, Buddhist art, Rimpa and ukiyo-e paintings,
ceramics and lacquerwork


Korean Art
Koryo dynasty ceramics, bronze, silver, and gold materials,
and Choson period ceramics


South Asian & Himalayan Art
Chola bronzes, Mughal and Rajput paintings, Buddhist
art, and the Freer Ramayana


Southeast Asian Art
Neolithic earthenware, temple sculpture, ceramics from
Cambodia, Vietnam, and Thailand



The Freer Gallery

The gallery houses a world-renowned collection of art
from China, Japan, Korea, South and Southeast Asia,
and the Near East. Visitor favorites include Chinese
paintings, Japanese folding screens, Korean ceramics,
Indian and Persian manuscripts, and Buddhist sculpture.
A highlight of the Whistler holdings is the Peacock Room,
a dining room that was once part of a London townhouse.
In 1876, Whistler lavishly decorated the room with a blue
and gold peacock design. After the owner's death, the
room was brought to the United States and permanently
installed in the Freer Gallery.

The gallery was founded by Charles Lang Freer (1854–1919),
a railroad-car manufacturer from Detroit who gave to
the United States his collections and funds for a building
to house them. The Italian-Renaissance-style gallery,
constructed in granite and marble, was designed by
American architect Charles Platt. When the gallery
opened to the public in 1923, it was the first Smithsonian
museum for fine arts. In subsequent years, the collections
have grown through gifts and purchases to nearly triple
the size of Freer's bequest.


The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

The gallery opened in 1987 to house a gift of some
1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler
(1913–1987), a research physician and medical publisher
from New York City. Among the highlights of his gift
were early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings
and lacquerware, ancient Near Eastern ceramics and
metalware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia.
Sackler also donated $4 million toward construction of
the gallery. Since 1987, the gallery's collections have
expanded to include the Vever Collection, an important
assemblage of the Islamic arts of the book from the 11th
to the 19th century; 19th- and 20th-century Japanese
prints and contemporary porcelain; Indian, Chinese,
Japanese, and Korean paintings; arts of village India;
contemporary Chinese ceramics; and photography.

International loan exhibitions have included Timur and
the Princely Vision: Persian Art and Culture in the 15th
Century; Yani: the Brush of Innocence, featuring paintings
by a 14-year-old Chinese prodigy; When Kingship
Descended from Heaven: Masterpieces of Mesopotamian
Art from the Louvre; Court Arts of Indonesia; Korean Art
of the 18th Century: Splendor & Simplicity; and A
Basketmaker in Rural Japan.

The Sackler Gallery is connected by an underground
exhibition space to the neighboring Freer Gallery of Art.
Although their collections are stored and exhibited
separately, the two museums share a director,
administration, and staff.

The Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Auditorium, located
in the Freer, provides a venue for a broad variety of free
public programs relating to the collections of the Freer
and Sackler galleries, including concerts of Asian music
and dance, films, lectures, chamber music, and dramatic
presentations.

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The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds.
- Jawaharlal Nehru