Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Freer Gallery of Art – Virtual Tour

The Freer Gallery of Fine art is a museum of the Smithsonian Institution focusing on Asian art. The Freer and the Arthur Chiliad. Sackler Gallery together form the Smithsonian'due south national museums of Asian art in the United States.

The Freer contains art from Eastern asia, South asia, Southeast Asia, the Islamic world, the ancient Near East, and ancient Egypt, as well as a significant collection of American art.

The Freer Gallery of Art has a collection of over 26,000 objects spanning 6,000 years of history.

The collections include ancient Egyptian, aboriginal Near Eastern, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Persian, and Buddhist.

In addition to Asian art, the Freer besides contains many of James McNeill Whistler works as office of the Freer'due south American art drove.

The gallery is located on the due south side of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., face-to-face with the Sackler Gallery.

Virtual Tour of the Freer Gallery of Fine art

  • "Southend Pier" by James Abbott McNeill Whistler
  • "Green and Silver: Beaulieu, Touraine" by James Abbott McNeill Whistler
  • "Variations in Pink and Grey: Chelsea" by James Abbott McNeill Whistler
  • The Peacock Room
  • The Princess from the Country of Porcelain

Highlights Tour of the Freer Gallery of Art

"Southend Pier" by James Abbott McNeill Whistler

Southend Pier by James Abbott McNeill Whistler depicts groups of people walking at the water'south edge. Southend Pier, a major landmark in Southend-on-Ocean, in southeastern Essex, England, is in the background.

In the early 19th century, Southend was growing as a seaside holiday resort. The declension at Southend consists of extensive mudflats, so the sea is never deep fifty-fifty at full tide.

The pier was built to allow boats to reach Southend at all tides. By 1848 it was the longest pier in Europe at 7,000 anxiety (2,100 one thousand).

By the 1850s, the railway had reached Southend with it a significant influx of visitors from London. Later on this painting was made, it was decided to replace the pier with a new iron pier.

"Green and Silver: Beaulieu, Touraine" by James Abbott McNeill Whistler

"Green and Silver: Beaulieu, Touraine" by James Abbott McNeill Whistler depicts a dark-green meadow, with a house and copse in the altitude.

A child with red pants stands in the foreground, with another figure beyond in the background.

Whistler influenced the fine art earth and the broader culture of his time with his creative theories and his friendships with leading artists and writers.

His famous signature for his paintings was in the shape of a stylized butterfly possessing a long stinger for a tail.

"Variations in Pink and Gray: Chelsea" by James Abbott McNeill Whistler

Variations in Pinkish and Grayness: Chelsea by James Abbott McNeill Whistler depicts the affluent expanse of South West London bounded to the south by the River Thames.

In the 19th century, the area became a Victorian artists' colony. Chelsea once had a reputation equally London's bohemian quarter, the haunt of artists, radicals, painters, and poets.

Painters such as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, J. M. Westward. Turner, James McNeill Whistler, William Holman Chase, and John Singer Sargent all lived and worked hither.

There was an unusually large concentration of artists in the area effectually Cheyne Walk and Cheyne Row, where the Pre-Raphaelite motion had its heart.

The Peacock Room

The Peacock Room is a decorative art masterpiece created past James McNeill Whistler and Thomas Jeckyll. It was completed in 1877 and is ane of the great surviving aesthetic interiors of the Anglo-Japanese style.

Whistler painted the paneled room in brilliant blue-greens with over-glazing and metallic gold leaf. Thomas Jeckyll was the architect and initial designer of the room.

The Peacock Room was originally designed as a dining room for a townhouse in Kensington in London, owned by the British aircraft magnate Frederick Richards Leyland.

Leyland engaged the leading British architectural business firm, of the time, to remodel and redecorate his home. The architectural firm turned to Thomas Jeckyll, who was experienced in the Anglo-Japanese way, for the remodeling of the dining room.

Jeckyll conceived the dining room for the brandish of Chinese Porcelain. Jekyll constructed an intricate lattice framework of engraved spindled walnut shelves to concord Leyland's collection of Chinese blue and white porcelain.

The Princess from the Country of Porcelain

"Rose and Silver: The Princess from the Land of Porcelain" by James Abbott McNeill Whistler depicts a Western woman wearing a kimono and standing amongst numerous Asian objects, including a rug and screen, equally well equally some porcelain.

The woman holds a mitt fan, and her pose echos the elongated Asian female person figures depicted in ancient Asian artworks.

"The Princess" is i of several of Whistler'south works painted during the 1860s that depict a Western woman with Asian motifs and Asian clothes.

Princess was painted between 1863 and 1865 with Christine Spartali, the sister of Pre-Raphaelite artist Marie Spartali Stillman, serving as the model. Spartali has been described as an Anglo-Greek dazzler "whom all the artists of the twenty-four hours were clamoring to paint."

Whistler's large signature on the summit left of the canvas drew disquisitional comments. Likewise, the prominent signature led to potential buyers to withdraw from purchasing the artwork because of the signature's prominence.

This criticism of Whistler's prominent signature prompted Whistler to develop his more subtle butterfly-fashion signature in his time to come artworks.

Freer Gallery of Art

  • Proper noun:                  Freer Gallery of Art
  • City:                      Washington, D.C.
  • State:               United States
  • Established:         1923
  • Location:             1050 Independence Avenue, Washington, D.C.

Freer Gallery of Art Map

Freer Gallery of Art – 360 Views

Freer Gallery of Art – 360 Views

Freer Gallery of Fine art – 360 Views

A Tour of Washington, D.C. Museums

  • National Gallery of Art
  • National Museum of American History
  • National Air and Space Museum
  • National Museum of African American History and Civilisation
  • National Museum of Natural History
  • National Portrait Gallery
  • Smithsonian American Art Museum
  • The Phillips Collection
  • Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
  • International Spy Museum
  • National Museum of Women in the Arts
  • United states of america Holocaust Memorial Museum
  • Freer Gallery of Fine art
  • Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

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Freer Gallery of Art

Freer Gallery of Art

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