Art Inventories
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919
setName: label: See more items in
content: Charles Lang Freer Papers
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1901-1921
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: FSA.A.01, Series 5
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Arrangement:

Arrangement:

Paintings - American and European

Paintings and prints - James McNeil Whistler

Prints and drawings - American and European

Pottery - American and European

Paintings - Oriental

Pottery - Oriental

Prints - Japanese

Bronze

Metalwork

Frames

Jade

Egyptian Objects

Lacquers, carvings, and sundries

Minor arts

Stone sculpture

Textiles

Wood blocks

Wood carvings

Wood sculpture

Miscellaneous objects

Biblical manuscripts and East Christian paintings

Printed books

Photographs

List of objects transferred to Washington during 1920-1921

Estate distribution of personal property

Smithsonian art inventories
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Inventories compiled by Freer and assistants to catalogue his collection of art objects, books, documents, and sundries, particularly in preparation for the formal acceptance of his gift by the United States government, and the distribution of his personal estate. Extant lists [mostly typescripts], and bound volumes [partially handwritten], are generally arranged by form of material or country of origin. Cataloguing may have included number assigned, country of origin, title, artist, a brief description, dimensions, cost, and provenance information such as from whom the object was purchased, where it was found, or its disposition. Many of the inventories have been annotated, sometimes by Freer Gallery staff, with subsequent series of accession numbers for the objects. 

Note: Inventories labeled "reserved" may have regarded those objects set aside for further consideration as possible gifts to the Smithsonian Institution.