Landscapes by Thomas Dewing are juxtaposed with Japanese works that Freer acquired in the late 1890s to illuminate the connection between Freer's taste for Japanese art and his affection for American tonalist paintings.

Trace the stories of famous people and events in Chinese history and see how their depictions in art reveal both traditional Chinese values and the universality of human experience.

Discover how the merchant and artisan classes during the Edo period in Japan reinterpreted classical Japanese and Chinese literary themes.

See how artists in the Edo period were inspired by natural history paintings to depict birds more accurately.

Learn about early Buddhist sculptures in China during the Tang dynasty.

See how the Chelsea neighborhood of London rapidly changed in the 1880s through the eyes of artist James McNeill Whistler.

View Korean tea bowls that were favored in the Japanese avant-garde tea ceremony known as wabicha.

View exceptional examples of tableware and other functional objects crafted by Chinese artisans, who were influenced by new techniques and materials used in foreign luxury goods that were traded along the Silk Road. Also featured are portions of an elaborate stone burial couch for the tomb of one of the traders from Sogdiana (modern-day Uzbekistan and Tajikistan).

See how the distinctive Korean ceramic decoration technique -- sanggam -- that made stamped or carved motifs appear to float within a limpid green glaze evolved.

Chinese ceramics highlight glazes and the skills of Song dynasty artisans.

Restored to its appearance in 1908, the Peacock Room's special exhibition highlights "points of contacts" between American and Asian art.

More than 100 of the Freer's jades and bronzes -- among the greatest treasures of Chinese art outside China -- are on view.

Some 23 oil paintings represent a choice selection of the more than 1,300 paintings, prints, and drawings by Whistler from the gallery's collection.

This exhibition showcases the extraordinary range of South Asian and Himalayan art.

Important works from the Freer's collection of Japanese religious art are exhibited.

See two huge sculptures of Japanese warriors and a large stone Buddhist sculpture. 

Twisted Form (Traveler's Guardian Spirit) by Shiro Hayami.

The works on view here represent the three principal media for artistic expression in the Islamic world: architecture, the arts of the book, and the arts of the object.