Detail, Vishnu Vishvarupa; India, Rajasthan, Jaipur, ca. 1800–1820; Opaque watercolor and gold on paper, 38.5 x 28 cm; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Given by Mrs. Gerald Clark, IS.33-2006
Past Exhibitions
Detail, A Street at Saverne; James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903); Watercolor and pencil on paper; Gift of Charles Lang Freer; Freer Gallery of Art;
Off the Beaten Path: Early Works by James McNeill Whistler
Detail, Untitled (Lap Vo, Delta of Mekong, 1994); S1997.14
Detail; A world Lost: after the original island, single land mass fractured, after populations migrated, after pollution revealed itself and as cultural locations once separated merged, after the splitting of Adam and Eve, Shiva and Shakti, of race black and white, of culture East and West, after animals diminished, after the seas’ corals did exterminate, after this and at last imagine all water evaporated…this after Columbus found it we lost it imagine this; Rina Banerjee (b. 1963); 2013; Photo by Hutomo Wicaksono
Detail, The Four Sylvan Sounds (The Hermit Thrush and the Sound of Running Water); Thomas Dewing (1851–1938); United States, 1896–97; Oil on wood panels; Gift of Charles Lang Freer; F1906.72–73
Detail, View of Xu Bing’s Phoneix models in transit; Photo by John Tsantes
Detail, Ehon butai ogi, vol. 3; by Katsukawa Shunshō (1726—1792) and Ippitsusai Bunchō (active ca. 1755—1790); Japan, Edo period, 1770; Woodblock printed; ink and color on paper covers; Purchase - The Gerhard Pulverer Collection, Museum funds, Friends of the Freer and Sackler Galleries and the Harold P. Stern Memorial fund in appreciation of Jeffrey P. Cunard and his exemplary service to the Galleries as chair of the Board of Trustees (2003—2007); Freer Gallery of Art Study Collection FSC-GR-780.164.3
The Cyrus Cylinder; Clay, Babylon, Mesopotamia, after 539 BCE; D x H: 7.8-10 x 21.9-22.8 cm; British Museum, London, ME 90920; Photo: ©The Trustees of the British Museum
Paul Singer's apartment in Summit, New Jersey, 1997. Photo by John Tsantes.
Detail, Gathering of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. China, Hebei province, Fengfeng, Southern Xiangtangshan Cave Temples, Cave 2. Northern Qi dynasty, 550–577. Limestone with traces of pigment. Gift of Charles Lang Freer, F1921.1