Peacock in Freer Gallery of Art Courtyard
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Object Details
- Author
- Unknown
- Subject
- Freer Gallery of Art
- National Zoological Park (U.S.)
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- On May 1, 1923, the Freer Gallery of Art opened with a private viewing for President Warren G. Harding, Mrs. Florence Kling Harding, the Smithsonian Regents and various cabinet members. In addition to the art exhibits, the courtyard became home to three peacocks. The peacocks, donated by the National Zoological Park, resemble the decorative images in James McNeill Whistler's Peacock Room. The peacocks moved back to the Zoo in the winter for safekeeping and returned to the Freer in the spring. The peacocks remained fixtures in the Freer courtyard in the 1920s.
- Summary
- One of the three peacocks loaned to the Freer Gallery of Art by the National Zoological Park is starting up some steps in the courtyard.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 02-082; Box 1, Folder: Photographs, Peacocks
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- c. 1923
- Standard number
- SIA2007-0178
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Exterior
- Physical description
- Number of Images: 1; Color: Sepia; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Animal; Medium: Photographic print
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Courtyards
- Peafowl
- Birds
- Record ID
- siris_sic_11886
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Usage conditions apply
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