Subject:

Freer, Charles Lang 1854-1919  Search this

Freer Gallery of Art  Search this

Place:

New York (N.Y.)

Date:

February 25, 1854

Category:

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Notes:

In 1906 Charles Lang Freer donates his art collection to the Smithsonian Institution, and it later becomes the Freer Gallery of Art.

Lawton, Thomas and Linda Merrill. Freer: A Legacy of Art. Washington, D.C.: Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution in association with Henry N. Abrams, Inc., 1993, p. 13, 254.

Men and Women of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries, s.v. "Freer, Charles Lang." New York: L.R. Hamersly and Company, 1910, p. 657.

Summary:

Charles Lang Freer is born in Kingston, New York, to Jacob R. Freer and Phoebe Jane Freer (née Townshend). He is the third of six children.

Contact information:

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Topic:

Collectors and collecting  Search this

Births  Search this

Data Source:

Smithsonian Archives - History Div

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