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  • Style in Chinese Landscape Painting: The Yuan Dynasty Legacy

    This exhibition includes the earliest work in the museum collection together with later examples tracing the characteristics and evolution of six key styles.

    November 22, 2014 – May 31, 2015

    Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery

  • Sylvan Sounds: Freer, Dewing, and Japan

    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.

    May 18, 2013 – January 4, 2015

    Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery

  • The Religious Art of Japan

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

    December 21, 2002 – January 4, 2015

    Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery

  • Chinese Ceramics: 10th-13th Century

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

    November 5, 2011 – January 3, 2015

    Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery

  • Style in Chinese Landscape Painting: The Song Legacy

    This exhibition showcases a group of the Freer's best Song dynasty landscape paintings along with later works that illustrate the evolution of six different styles.

    May 17, 2014 – October 26, 2014

    Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery

  • Off the Beaten Path: Early Works by James McNeill Whistler

    See how Whistler's trip to the countryside of the Rhineland was instrumental in forming his mature artistic style and choice of subject matter.

    September 28, 2013 – September 28, 2014

    Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery

  • Chinese Ceramics for Tea in Japan

    See bowls, small jars, and other ceramics used as tea utensils in 16th-century Japan.

    March 8, 2014 – September 14, 2014

    Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery

  • Bountiful Waters: Aquatic Life in Japanese Art

    Prints, paintings, illustrated books, and ceramics depict Japanese appreciation for the beauty and variety of fish and other species.

    March 8, 2014 – September 14, 2014

    Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery

  • Women in Chinese Painting

    Paintings in this exhibition illustrate the active and critical roles women played in traditional Chinese society.

    November 9, 2013 – April 27, 2014

    Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery

  • Exhibiting Freer's Bibles

    Two two rare biblical manuscripts are shown against the backdrop of Whistler's brilliant blue-and-gold decorations.

    November 16, 2013 – February 16, 2014

    Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery

  • Charles Freer and the Arts of Japan

    See works Charles Lang Freer collected during his visits to Japan between 1895-1911.

    August 24, 2013 – February 9, 2014

    Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery

  • Korean Style in Japanese Ceramics

    See a selection of Japanese tea bowls inspired by Korean ceramic styles.

    August 24, 2013 – February 9, 2014

    Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery

  • Old Tales Retold: Chinese Narrative Painting

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

    April 20, 2013 – October 20, 2013

    Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery

  • Whistler's Neighborhood: Impressions of a Changing London

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

    September 3, 2012 – September 3, 2013

    Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery

  • Korean Tea Bowls for Japan

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

    July 1, 2012 – August 20, 2013

    Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery

  • Poetic License: Making Old Words New

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

    February 2, 2013 – August 4, 2013

    Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery

  • Edo Aviary

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

    February 2, 2013 – August 4, 2013

    Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery

  • Enlightened Beings: Buddhism in Chinese Painting

    Learn about four main categories of enlightened being in Buddhism through 27 works dating from the Song to Qing dynasties.

    September 1, 2012 – February 24, 2013

    Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery

  • Sweet Silent Thought: Whistler's Interiors

    In this small-scale exhibition, examine themes that recur in James McNeill Whistler's works.

    August 20, 2011 – August 19, 2012

    Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery

  • Winged Spirits: Birds in Chinese Painting

    Examine birds in Chinese paintings that are rendered in such fine detail that more than 35 species can be scientifically identified.

    February 11, 2012 – August 12, 2012

    Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery

  • Hokusai: Japanese Screens

    View a selection of important Hokusai painted folding screens.

    January 28, 2012 – July 29, 2012

    Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery

  • Seasons: Tea

    View examples of tea utensils that embody seasonal changes.

    February 5, 2011 – June 24, 2012

    Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery

  • Hokusai: Paintings and Drawings

    View a selection of important Hokusai paintings and drawings, including three masterworks: Thunder God, Fisherman, and Woodcutter.

    February 18, 2012 – June 24, 2012

    Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery

  • Ancient Near Eastern Art

    See an extraordinary selection of silver-gilt ceremonial vessels, created in Iran during the Sasanian Empire (ca. 224-651).

    February 3, 2010 – April 30, 2012

    Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery

  • Seasons: Arts of Japan

    See how seasonal associations permeate Japanese art and culture.

    February 5, 2011 – February 12, 2012

    Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery

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