Freer, Charles Lang, 1854-1919
type Collector Patron
dates 1854-1919
city Detroit
stateMI
sex M
history Charles Lang Freer was a Detroit industrialist, collector and founder of the Freer Gallery of Art. He was the son of Jacob R. Freer and Phoebe Jane Townsend. Freer never married.

Freer although known principally as a collector of Asian art also collected American, and European art, including a large collection of works by James McNeill Whistler.
decades1880-1890
1890-1900
1900-1910
1910-1920
websitehttp://www.asia.si.edu/
updated 10/31/2024 13:33:17
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Repository Description Links
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
Freer|Sackler, Smithsonian Institution
Charles Lang Freer Papers 1876-1931 see details...
Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200
Charles Lang Freer selected papers, 1876-1931. see details...
Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200
Aline and Eero Saarinen papers, 1906-1977 see details...
Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200
Mary Chase Stratton papers see details...
Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200
Roswell Morse Shurtleff papers, 1862-1871 and [undated].
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Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200
Nelson and Henry C. White research material, circa 1851-1961 see details...
Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200
Willard Leroy Metcalf papers, 1876-1925. see details...
Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200
Joseph Pennell papers, 1908-1935. see details...
Online Edition of Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler
University of Glasgow
Correspondence associated with: Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919 see details...
Smithsonian Institution Archives
Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Agency history, 1906- . see details...
The Getty Research Institute
Research Libraries, Archives and Special Collections
M. Knoedler & Co. records, approximately 1848-1971 see details...
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Ingalls Library and Archives
Records of the Director's Office: Frederic Allen Whiting, 1913-1930 see details...
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
Freer|Sackler, Smithsonian Institution
Biblical Manuscripts and Gold Treasure collection 1907-1920 see details...
Smith College
Mortimer Rare Book Room
Alfred Vance Churchill papers, 1828-1948. see details...

see alsoFenollosa, Ernest Francisco, 1853-1908