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2013 Freer House Lecture Series  (Flyer PDF)

Sunday, June 2, 2103  (Flyer PDF)

2 pm at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Lecture Hall
Heels over Head: Mr. Freer, Swami Vivekananda, and the Art of Yoga
By
Debra Diamond, Curator of South and Southeast Asian Art, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Smithsonian

 

October 20, 2013

2 pm at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Lecture Hall
A Thousand Graces:
Freer’s Pilgrimage to the Buddhist Cave Temples at Longmen and his Collection of Chinese Art
By:
David Hogge PhD, Head of Archives, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Daisy Yiyou Wang, PhD, Chinese Art Project Specialist, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

An International Landmark... A World Class Lecture Series

 


EVENT ARCHIVE


Harmony in Design: Freer House, the Detroit Club and the Architecture of Wilson Eyre, Jr
Jeffrey A. Cohen, PhD, Architectural Historian, Senior Lecturer and Chair, Growth of Cities Department, Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia, PA
Sunday, March 10, 2013 PDF FormatPDF - flyer for presentation


Painting with Pottery in the Peacock Room
Louise Allison Cort is Curator for Ceramics at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.


Whistler's Seriousness
Carole McNamara
, Senior Curator of Western Art, University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)
Sunday, October 23, 2011 PDF FormatPDF - flyer for presentation


Freer and Whistler Through Music, Art and Letters
A benefit concert event announcing the Freer House “Whistler Gallery” Restoration Project. The remarkable relationship of the famous American artist, James McNeill Whistler, and the Detroit industrialist and art collector, Charles Lang Freer, will be the focus of this special concert event.
Sunday, March 27, 2011 PDF FormatPDF - flyer for presentation


 
Lasting Legacy: Charles Lang Freer’s 1910 “Exhibition of Oriental and American Art” and the University of Michigan
Anna Wieck, history of art, University of Michigan
Mei-Chen Pan, Comparative Literature, University of Michigan
Sarah Conrad, American Culture, University of Michigan
 
Sunday, January 30, 2011 

A Discerning Taste for Japanese Art—the Formation of Charles Lang Freer’s Collection
Ann Yonemura, Senior Associate Curator of Japanese Art,
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Sunday, October 24, 2010 PDF FormatPDF - flyer for presentation
 

Charles Lang Freer and Detroit’s Pewabic Pottery
Dr. Thomas W. Brunk, Art and Architecture Historian.
Sunday, March 28, 2010 PDF FormatPDF - flyer for presentation
 
 

 
A Benefit Concert at Freer House
A recreation of the historic first concert held at the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. on February 7, 1924 by the Library of Congress. Chamber music of diverse composers performed by the Scarab Club String Quartet.
Sunday, February 7, 2010 PDF FormatPDF - flyer for presentation
 


The Blue Room: Whistler’s Peacock Room in Detroit
Dr. Linda Merrill,
former Curator of American Art,
Freer Gallery of Art, Visiting Professor of Art History,
Emory University Whistler scholar, author and expert on the Peacock Room
Sunday, Oct 25, 2009 PDF FormatPDF - flyer for presentation



Charles Lang Freer and Egypt
Dr. Massumeh Farhad
, Chief Curator and Curator of Islamic Art
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Tuesday, May 19, 2009
 


Charles Lang Freer and Egypt
Dr. Ann C. Gunter, Professor,
Northwestern University and Former Curator of Ancient Near Eastern Art,
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Sunday, May 3, 2009  PDF Format PDF - flyer for presentations


Pretty Women: Freer and Feminine Beauty
Dr. Kenneth John Myers

Curator of American Art and Head of the Department of American Art Detroit Institute of Arts
February 8, 2009 
 PDF Format   PDF - flyer for presentation


Freer Gallery Surface Beauty: American Art and Freer’s Aesthetic Vision
Lee Glazer, Ph.D. Freer Gallery of Art / Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
November 9, 2008 
PDF Format  PDF - presentation          PDF Format   PDF - flyer for presentation


The focus of this presentation was on a group of paintings by Thomas dewing and Dwight Tryon that were originally part of a larger decorative ensemble in this building, the home of Charles Lang Freer, the Detroit industrialist whose gave his collection of Asian antiquities and turn-of-the-century American painting to the museum that bears his name, the Freer Gallery of Art, the first art museum of the Smithsonian Institution.