Author: Thomas Lawton; Linda Merrill; Milo Cleveland Beach; Freer Gallery of Art; Smithsonian Institution
Title: Freer: A Legacy of Art
Description: New York : H.N. Abrams, 1993. 4to. 272 pp. Very Good+. Soft Cover. Illustrated paper wraps. Color and B&W plates throughout. ISBN: 0810933152 9780810933156. Charles Lang Freer, whose original gift to the nation in 1906 formed the basis of a singular collection of Asian art, realized in his collection a link between East and West matched only in James McNeill Whistler's Peacock Room. On the occasion of the opening of the renovated Freer galleries at the Smithsonian, this book is a celebration of the man. It is part biography and part catalog, detailing both the development of a connoisseur and the creation of a collection. Numerous color illustrations give just a hint of the extraordinary scope of the galleries, truly a national treasure. .

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