Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Eddie Faye Gates, Tulsa OK, author, historian, community activist
Object number:
2014.117.41
Restrictions & Rights:
Unknown - Restrictions Possible
Rights assessment and proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
One portrait of Japanese art collector Michael Tomkinson (1856-1921) and an unidentified child, seated before a Japanese screen, likely sent to Charles Lang Freer after visiting Tomkinson's Westeminster home in May 1902.
Arrangement:
Stored in one box.
Biographical / Historical:
Michael Tomkinson (1841-1921) was a British manufacturer and noted collector of Japanese art.
Local Numbers:
FSA A.01 12.03.04
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
Genre/Form:
Portraits -- Men
Photographs
Collection Citation:
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.
acrylic and oil paint, graphite, bristol board, metal leaf, natural and synthetic cloth fabric, nylon tulle, polyester and cotton thread, and crystal glass beads on wood panel
Dimensions:
H x W x D (a: wood panel): 24 × 16 1/8 × 1 9/16 in. (61 × 40.9 × 4 cm)
H x W (b: quilt panel): 20 1/2 × 15 15/16 in. (52 × 40.5 cm)
Type:
panel paintings
fiber art
portraits
mixed media
Place made:
Baltimore, Maryland, United States, North and Central America
