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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - presentation 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.