Charles Lang Freer selected papers
name: label: Creator
content: Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919
label: Names
content: Freer Gallery of Art
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content: M. Knoedler & Co.
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content: Smithsonian Institution
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content: Yamanaka & Company
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content: Bacher, Otto H. (Otto Henry), 1856-1909
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content: Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959
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content: Bing, Siegfried, 1838-1905
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content: Binyon, Laurence, 1869-1943
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content: Bixby, William K. (William Keeney), 1857-1931
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content: Bosch-Reitz, Sigisbert Chrétien, 1860-
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content: Caffin, Charles Henry, 1854-1918
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content: Campbell, Colin, Lady, 1857-1911
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content: Campbell, Colin, Lord, 1853-1895
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content: Canfield, Richard A. (Richard Albert), 1855-1914
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content: Chase, William Merritt, 1849-1916
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content: Church, Frederick S. (Frederick Stuart), 1842-1924
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content: Churchill, Alfred Vance, 1864-1949
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content: Coburn, Alvin Langdon, 1882-1966
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content: Dewing, Thomas Wilmer, 1851-1938
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content: Dow, Arthur W. (Arthur Wesley), 1857-1922
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content: Fenollosa, Ernest Francisco, 1853-1908
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content: Gallatin, A. E. (Albert Eugene), 1881-1952
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content: Gellatly, John, 1853-1931
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content: Gookin, Frederick William
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content: Hartmann, Sadakichi, 1867-1944
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content: Hecker, Frank J. (Frank Joseph), 1846-1927
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content: Kelekian, Dikran, 1868-1951
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content: Laufer, Berthold, 1874-1934
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content: Matsuki, Bunkio, 1867-1940
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content: McCormick, Frederick, 1870-
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content: Melchers, Gari, 1860-1932
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content: Meyer, Agnes Elizabeth Ernst, 1887-1970
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content: Meyer, Eugene, 1875-1959
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content: Moore, Charles, 1855-1942
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content: Nomura, Yozo
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content: Philip, Rosalind Birnie, 1873-1958
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content: Platt, Charles A. (Charles Adams), 1861-1933
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content: Reid, Alexander
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content: Rhoades, Katharine N., 1885-1965
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content: Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
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content: Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 1848-1907
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content: Steichen, Edward, 1879-1973
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content: Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946
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content: Thayer, Abbott Handerson, 1849-1921
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content: Tryon, Dwight William, 1849-1925
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content: Walcott, Charles D. (Charles Doolittle), 1850-1927
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content: Warring, Joseph Stephens, 1863?-1944
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content: Way, Thomas R. (Thomas Robert), 1861-1913
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content: Whistler, Beatrix Philip Godwin, d. 1896
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content: Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903
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content: Wong, K. T.
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content: Yue, Seaouke
topic: label: Topic
content: Art, Asian -- Collectors and collecting
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content: Art, American -- Collectors and collecting
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content: Art -- Collectors and collecting
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Selected for microfilming from the Charles Lang Freer papers at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Microfilmed 1992 by the Archives of American Art with funding provided by the Smithsonian Institution's Office of Fellowships and Grants Research Resources Program. Portions of the correspondence and the letterpress books were previously filmed by the Freer in the 1970 (AAA reels 77, 453-456, and 1217-1232); those reels have been replaced by this microfilming project. See Finding Aid for information on papers not selected for microfilming.
creator: label: Creator
content: Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Art collector; Detroit, Michigan. Collected Asian, American, and European art, including a large collection of works by James McNeill Whistler. Founded the Freer Gallery of Art, which is now part of the Smithsonian Institution.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 34 Microfilm reels
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1876-1931
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.freechar
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Microfilm reels
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: All correspondence except letterpress books: arranged alphabetically by correspondent; letterpress books are chonological.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 4720-4753 available for use at Archives of American Art offices, the Freer Gallery of Art/Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives, and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals in: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Papers concerning Freer's art collecting activities, including correspondence, diaries, art inventories, scrapbooks of clippings on James McNeil Whistler and other press clippings, and photographs. In addition to Freer's own correspondence, the papers include correspondence collected by Freer of James McNeill Whistler and of Whistler collector Richard A. Canfield, correspondence of Freer's assistant Katharine Nash Rhoades, and correspondence regarding Freer's bequest to the Smithsonian Institution.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondence, ca. 1860-1921, includes Freer's correspondence, 1876-1920, with artists, dealers, collectors, museums, and public figures; 30 v. of letterpress books containing copies of letters sent, 1892-1910; correspondence collected by Freer of James McNeill Whistler, and his wife Beatrix, 186?-1909, with Lady Colin Campbell, Thomas R. Way, Alexander Reid, Whistler' mother, Mrs. George W. Whistler, and others; correspondence of Whistler collector Richard A. Canfield, 1904-1913, regarding works in Canfield's collection; and correspondence of Freer's assistant, Katharine Nash Rhoades, 1920-1921, soliciting Freer letters and regarding the settlement of his estate.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Also included are twenty-nine pocket diaries, 1889-1890, 1892-1898, 1900-1919, recording daily activities, people and places visited, observations, and comments; a diary kept by Freer's caretaker, Joseph Stephens Warring, recording daily activities at Freer's Detroit home, 1907-1910;
label: Scope and Contents
content: Inventories, n.d. and 1901-1921, of American, European, and Asian art in Freer's collection, often including provenance information; vouchers, 1884-1919, documenting his purchases; five volumes of scrapbooks of clippings on James McNeill Whistler, 1888-1931, labeled "Various," "Peacock Room," "Death, etc.," "Paris, etc.," and "Boston...London" ; three volumes of newsclippings, 1900-1930, concerning Freer and the opening of the Freer Gallery of Art;
label: Scope and Contents
content: correspondence regarding Freer's gift and bequest to the Smithsonian Institution, 1902-1916; and photographs, ca. 1880-1930, of Freer, including portraits by Alvin Langdon Coburn and Edward Steichen, Freer with others, Freer in Cairo, China and Japan, Freer's death mask, and his memorial service, Kyoto, 1930; photographs of artists and others, including Thomas Dewing, Ernest Fenellosa, Katharine Rhoades taken by Alfred Stieglitz, Rosalind B. Philip, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Abbott H. Thayer, Dwight Tryon, and Whistler; and photographs relating to Whistler, including art works depicting him, grave and memorial monuments, works of art, the Peacock Room, and Whistler's memorial exhibition at the Copley Society.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Among Freer's correspondents are: Otto Bacher, Bernard Berenson, Siegfried Bing, Laurence Binyon, W.K. Bixby, Sigisbert Chretien Bosch-Reitz, Charles H. Caffin, Colin Campbell, Richard Canfield, William Merritt Chase, Frederick Stuart Church, Alfred Vance Churchill, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, Arthur Wesley Dow, Ernest Fenollosa, Albert Gallatin, John Gellatly, Frederick W. Gookin, Sadakichi Hartmann, Frank J. Hecker, Dikran Kelekian, M. Knoedler & Co., Berthold Laufer, Lien Hui Ching Collection, W.A. Livingstone, Frederick McCormick, Bunkio Matsuki, Gari Melchers, Agnes Meyer, Eugene Meyer, Charles Moore, Yozo Nomura, Rosalind Birnie Philip, Charles A. Platt, Theodore Roosevelt, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, the Smithsonian Institution, Joseph Stephens Warring, Thomas Way, Abbott Handerson Thayer, Dwight W. Tryon, Charles Walcott of the Smithsonian Institution, Beatrix Whistler, James McNeill Whistler, K.T. Wong, Yamanaka & Co., and Seaouke Yue.