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Upcoming Events

 

The next "Friends of Freer House" Lecture and Tours

 The Blue Room: Whistler's Peacock Room in Detroit"Charles Lang Freer House Peacock Room

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Date: Sunday, Oct 25, 2009, 2:00 PM

Speaker: Dr. Linda Merrill, former Curator of American Art,
 Freer Gallery of Art, Visiting Professor of Art History,
 Emory University Whistler scholar, author and expert on the Peacock Room.

Reception: Lecture will be held at the Detroit Institute of Arts,
Lecture Hall 5200 Woodward Ave., Detroit, MI. (2pm)

Cost: Lecture is Free with DIA museum admission

Post-Reception: Post lecture reception will be held at the Charles Lang Freer House, 71. E. Ferry Ave., Detroit (one block north of the DIA)

Tours: Tours will be offered during the reception. (3:30-5pm.)

Cost: Post lecture reception/tour at Freer House is $10 per person
(Free to members of the "Friends of the Freer House" )
Proceeds benefit the Freer House.

Reception includes the first public viewing of 12 reproductions of paintings by
Thomas Dewing and Dwight Tryon, new installed in their original locations in Freer House.

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Previous Events

Tuesday, May 19, 2009, 6:30 PM
Charles Lang Freer and Egypt
Dr. Massumeh Farhad, Chief Curator and Curator of Islamic Art
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Sunday, May 3, 2009, 2:00 PM
Charles Lang Freer and Egypt
Dr. Ann C. Gunter, Professor,
Northwestern University and Former Curator of Ancient Near Eastern Art,
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

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Pretty Women: Freer and Feminine Beauty
Dr. Kenneth John Myers
Curator of American Art and Head of the Department of American Art Detroit Institute of Arts
February 8, 2009  PDF Format   PDF - flyer for presentation
Lecture & Light Reception - Tours of the Freer House


Freer Gallery Surface Beauty: American Art and Freer’s Aesthetic Vision
Lee Glazer, Ph.D. Freer Gallery of Art / Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
November 9, 2008  PDF Format  PDF - presentation          PDF Format   PDF - flyer for presentation

The focus of this presentation was on a group of paintings by Thomas dewing and Dwight Tryon that were originally part of a larger decorative ensemble in this building, the home of Charles Lang Freer, the Detroit industrialist whose gave his collection of Asian antiquities and turn-of-the-century American painting to the museum that bears his name, the Freer Gallery of Art, the first art museum of the Smithsonian Institution.