Comprehensive index of Charles Lang Freer's library, mostly relating to art and Asian culture. Headings include authors, countries, and topical subjects. Sections include locations in Freer's original Detroit home; an index of all books transferred to the Smithsonian; a list of collections and collectors catalogues of American and Near and Far Eastern art; sales catalogues, and books in Chinese language.
Arrangement:
Organized in the original manner by the creator.
Local Numbers:
FSA A.01 05.22
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
Topic:
Art, Asian -- Collectors and collecting Search this
Art, American -- Collectors and collecting Search this
Charles Lang Freer Papers. FSA A.01. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of the estate of Charles Lang Freer.
Biographical and critical studies of Fuller; family correspondence; letters to Fuller from Sanford Gifford, William H. Ames, Edward T. Billings, Henry K. Brown, Linus Yale, Jr., William Dean Howells, and Henry G. Marquand; diaries, journals and essays by Fuller; a biographical study, "George Fuller, His Life and Work"; photographs; sketchbooks; exhibition material; and printed material.
Biographical / Historical:
Portrait, landscape and figure painter; Deerfield, Mass. His half-brother, Augustus Fuller, was a portrait painter, also.
Provenance:
Lent for microfilming 1973 by Elizabeth Fuller, Fuller's grandaughter and cannot be scanned.
Restrictions:
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center. Contact Reference Services for more information.
Collection Rights:
The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.
Collection Citation:
American Art Association Records, circa 1853-1929, bulk circa 1885-1922. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Smithsonian Institution Collections Care and Preservation Fund.
Deusner, Melody Barnett. 2012. "In Seen and Unseen Places: The Henry G. Marquand House and Collections in England and America." In Anglo-American: Artistic Exchange between Britain and the USA. Corbett, David Peters and Monks, Sarah, editors. Malden, Massachusetts: John Wiley & Sons.
Illustrated catalogue of the art and literary property collected by the late Henry G. Marquand: ed. by Thomas E. Kirby; the entire collection to be sold at unrestricted public sale beginning January twenty-third, 1903 ... under the management of the American Art Association
Pictures by old masters in Eastern Gallery no. 1. Retrospective exhibition of American paintings, loan collections and recent gifts to the museum in Eastern Galleries nos. 2, 5, 6, and 7. The Henry G. Marquand collection of old masters and pictures of the English school in Eastern Gallery no. 6
Author:
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Search this
