For more than six decades, the Freer Occasional Papers Series has provided a forum for peer-reviewed scholarly works on a wide range of topics in Asian, ancient Near Eastern, Islamic, and American art. The format of the Occasional Papers varies according to subject and ranges from monographs, conference proceedings, and multi-author treatments of a theme or material, to studies in conservation and scientific research.
The original print editions of volumes published before 2008 are now available as PDFs. We are revitalizing many of these seminal studies by adding images and including other supplementary resources. These new special editions are made accessible as they are finalized.
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Dragonâs Roar: Chinese Literati Musical Instruments in the Freer and Sackler Collections

Explore the qin, its influences, and related paintings in Look & Listen: Asian Art and Music, Bell Yung, qin, with Keith Wilson.
The Freer Occasional Papers Digital Repository
The Grand Empress Dowager WĂȘn Ming and the Northern Wei Necropolis at Fang Shan
A.G. Wenley
vol. 1, no. 1, 1947
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Paintings, Pastels, Drawings, Prints, and Copper Plates by and Attributed to American and European Artists, Together with a List of Original Whistleriana in the Freer Gallery of Art
Burns A. Stubbs
vol. 1, no. 2, 1948
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 The Unicorn
Richard Ettinghausen
vol. 1, no. 3, 1950
James McNeill Whistler: A Biographical Outline Illustrated from the Collections of the Freer Gallery of Art
Burns A. Stubbs
vol. 1, no. 4, 1950
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A Royal Head from Ancient Egypt
Georg Steindorff
vol. 1, no. 5, 1951
Fourteenth-Century Blue-and-White: A Group of Chinese Porcelains in the Topkapu Sarayi MĂŒzesi, Istanbul
John Alexander Pope
vol. 2, no. 1, 1952
Abstracts of Technical Studies in Art and Archaeology, 1943â1952
Rutherford J. Gettens and Bertha M. Usilton
vol. 2, no. 2, 1955
The Lohans and a Bridge to Heaven
Wen Fong
vol. 3, no. 1, 1958
Calligraphers and Painters: A Treatise by QÄdÄ« Ahmad, Son of Mir-MunshÄ«, circa A.H. 1015/A.D. 1606
Translated by Vladimir Minorsky
vol. 3, no. 2, 1959
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Li Ti
Richard Edwards
vol. 3, no. 3, 1967
Two Early Chinese Bronze Weapons with Meteoritic Iron Blades
Rutherford J. Gettens, Roy S. Clarke, and W. T. Chase
vol. 4, no. 1, 1971
Dara-Shikoh Shooting Nilgais: Hunt and Landscape in Mughal Painting
Ebba Koch
vol. 1, 1998
The Jesuits and the Grand Mogul: Renaissance Art at the Imperial Court of India, 1580â1630
Gauvin Alexander Bailey
vol. 2, 1998
A Freer Stela Reconsidered
Stanley K. Abe
vol. 3, 2002
Studies Using Scientific Methods: Pigments in Later Japanese Paintings
Elisabeth West FitzHugh, John Winter, and Marco Leona
New series, vol. 1, 2003
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James McNeill Whistler in Context Essays from the Whistler Centenary Symposium, University of Glasgow, 2003
Lee Glazer, Margaret F. MacDonald, Linda Merrill, and Nigel Thorp, eds.
New series, vol. 2, 2008
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The Look of the Book: Manuscript Production in Shiraz, 1303-1452
Elaine Wright
New Series, vol. 3, 2013
Time and Place Are Nonsense: The Films of Seijun Suzuki
Tom Vick
New Series, vol. 4, 2015
Performing Indonesia
Sumarsam and Andy McGraw, Eds.
New Series, vol. 5, 2016