Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery World ... Gallery of Art, north façade, c. 1923 . Freer Gallery of Art Building Records. F|S Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery World War II Era Provenance Project and Asian Art Provenance Research Resources

Dorota Chudzicka, Provenance Research AssociateDavid Hogge, Head of ArchivesFreer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery The Smithsonian’s Museums of Asian ArtWashington, DC

Delivered at “New Era of Collaboration and Digitized Resources: World War II Provenance Research Seminar,” May 6-7, 2011

Freer Gallery of Art, north façade, c. 1923 Freer Gallery of Art Building RecordsF|S Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Freer Gallery of Art, Chinese art installation, gallery 13, 1923F|S Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, c. 1987F|S Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, South and South East Asian Art gallery, c. 1987F|S Archives, Smithsonian Institution

A. L. Coburn, Freer (1854-1919) comparing Whistler’s Venus Rising from the Sea to an Islamic glazed ceramic pot, 1909 F|S Archives, Smithsonian Institution

James McNeill Whistler, Portrait of Charles Lang Freer, 1902, oil on wood panel, 51.8 x 31.7 cm (20 3/8 x 12 1/2 in)Freer Gallery of Art, F1903.301

Freer Gallery of Art,Whistler and His Circle in Venice installation, 2003

JarChina, Henan province, Anyang late 13th-early 12th c. BCEPurchase, F1939.42

Ritual grain server (gui)China, ca. 1045 BCEGift of Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer, F1968.29

Incense burnerChina, Henan or Hebeiprovince, ca. 2nd c. BCEPurchase, F1947.15

Pair of supports in the form of tigersChina, Shaanxi province, Baoji Xian900-850 BCEPurchase, F1935.21-22

CanteenProbably northern IraqAyyubid dynasty, mid-14th c.Purchase, F1941.10

BeakerIran, Seljuq period, early 13th c.Purchase, F1928.2

Lion, Ch’l-lin, and Dragon Set in a Floral SprayTurkey, Ottoman period, mid-16th c.Purchase, F1948.17

Round axe (qibi)China, 12th-11th c. BCEGift of Eugene andAgnes E. Meyer, F1970.39

Shiva VinadharaIndia, Tamil Nadu, ca. 950Purchase, F1997.28

Figure of a seated womanChina, first half of 8th c.Purchase–Friends of the Freer and Sackler Galleries, F2001.8

CranesItō Jakuchū (1719-1800)Japan, Edo period, ca. 1775-90Purchase–Mary Livingston Griggs and Mary Griggs Burke FoundationF1997.25.1-2

Acquisitions for the Freer Gallery’s collection

Arthur M. Sackler (1913-1987), c. 1985Photograph by Henry GroskinskyF|S Archives, Smithsonian Institution

RhytonIran or Afghanistan, 4th c.Silver and gilt, 15.5 x 25.4 x 14.1 cm Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, S1987.33

Chimera (bixie)China, Eastern Han dynasty, ca. 25-220Jade, 8.1 x 13.9 x 3.8 cm Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, S1987.26

Ritual wine container (you)China, Shang dynasty, ca. 13th-12th c. BCE.Bronze, 30.1 x 12.2 x 12.5 cm Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, S1987.23

Cologne 1926 Berlin 1929 London 1935-36

Stockholm 1933 Paris 1937

Smithsonian Institution, Provenance in the World War II Erahttp://provenance.si.edu/jsp/index.aspx

Ritual grain server (gui)Early Western Zhou dynasty,ca. late 11th-early 10th c. BCEBronze, 28.1 x 34 x 24.4 cmFreer Gallery of Art, F1938.20

Ritual grain server (gui)Early Western Zhou dynasty,ca. late 11th-early 10th c. BCEBronze, 28.1 x 34 x 24.4 cmFreer Gallery of Art, F1938.20

A Descriptive and Illustrative Catalogue of Chinese Bronzes, Washington 1946

The Freer and Sackler Galleries World War II Era Provenance Projecthttp://www.asia.si.edu/collections/ww2provenance.asp

The Freer and Sackler Galleries World War II Era Provenance Projecthttp://www.asia.si.edu/collections/ww2provenance.asp

The Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

“The ample study rooms and the varied nature of the collection to go into the Freer unit, will attract scholars from distant countries as well as from far away points in the United States, and it could, I believe, become eventually, a very valuable educational asset.”

Charles Lang Freer

Letter to Secretary Walcott, Sept. 9th, 1919.


What we are:

•A repository of original research documents

•Part of a resource center for the study of Asian and Middle Eastern art and culture

What we collect:

•Personal and professional papers of collectors, dealers, archaeologists and scholar who have participated in the West’s encounter with Asian art.

•Photographic materials with research value



Collectors


Charles Lang Freer Papers






Henri Vever Papers


Henri Vever Papers


Paul Singer Papers


Dealers


Yatsuhashi Harumichi Family Papers


C.T. Loo family photographs






Archaeologists


Archaeological Expeditions in China


Carl Whiting Bishop Papers


Li Chi Manuscripts


Ernst Herzfeld Papers






Scholars


Benjamin March Papers


Myron Bement Smith Papers


James Cahill Papers


Photographs


Photographs

Documents

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery World ... Gallery of Art, north façade, c. 1923 . Freer Gallery of Art Building Records. F|S Archives, Smithsonian Institution