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Category: American Art

November 17, 2022November 17, 2022

Party Like It’s 1908

Peacock Room
Conservator using a very small paintbrush to paint in areas of lost paint on a shutter in the Peacock Room.
September 12, 2022September 13, 2022

Phase One of the Peacock Room Conservation Project Is Complete!

Peacock Room
detail of two conservators working on a panel below a window
August 1, 2022August 15, 2022

The Conservation Work Begins!

Peacock Room
Square landscape of a New England church along a tree lined road in Deerfield, Mass. on an October morning, the leaves on the trees and falling on the ground have begun turning yellow
October 8, 2021October 7, 2021

Unseen Art History: October Morning: Deerfield, Mass

American Art, Charles Lang Freer, Landscape, Provenance Research, United States, Unseen Art History, Willard Metcalf
July 18, 2020July 27, 2020

This Day in Freer History: July 18, 1894

Charles Lang Freer, Freer at 100, Freer Gallery of Art, Freer History, James McNeill Whistler
September 9, 2019March 25, 2020

The Plain Pier of Beautiful Harmonies

An archival photograph of a street with a man and carriages further down
October 2, 2017March 25, 2020

Revisiting Whistler’s Neighborhood: The House with the Copper Door

James McNeill Whistler
September 25, 2017March 25, 2020

Revisiting Whistler’s Neighborhood: Freer and Whistler’s Final Days Together

Charles Lang Freer, James McNeill Whistler
woman in kimono
September 19, 2017March 25, 2020

The Mystery of the Missing Frame

James McNeill Whistler
James McNeill Whistler’s watercolor “Blue and Silver: Chopping Channel”
November 23, 2016March 25, 2020

Whistler’s Watercolors: Sneak Peek

F1905.120a-b, F1907.170a-d
Oil on wood panel painting of the ocean
September 26, 2016March 25, 2020

Grey and Gold

F1904.163a-b, James McNeill Whistler
Conservator examining Whistler's drawings
August 17, 2016March 25, 2020

A Journey into Whistler’s Drawings

F1898.171, F1898.172, James McNeill Whistler
Lithograph drawing of Walter Richard Sickert on paper
June 13, 2016March 25, 2020

Whistler’s Portraits: Ripper, Vampire, or Sickert?

F1905.108, James McNeill Whistler
Sunflower andirons
February 24, 2016March 25, 2020

Sunflowers in the Peacock Room

FSC-M-66a–b, Peacock Room, sunflowers, Thomas Jeckyll
Portrait of President Theodore Roosevelt
February 15, 2016March 25, 2020

Thanks, Mr. President!

F1908.17a
painting of The Princess from the Land of Porcelain
January 22, 2016March 25, 2020

Princess: Unleashed

F1903.91a–b, James McNeill Whistler, Peacock Room
oil painting of three females
January 15, 2016March 25, 2020

A Painting That Doesn’t Exist

F1902.138, F1902.139, F1905.130, F1905.133, F1905.136, F1905.138, Filthy Lucre, James McNeill Whistler
December 29, 2015March 25, 2020

Evolutionary: Whistler, Darwin, and the Peacock Room

James McNeill Whistler, Peacock Room
Nocturne: Grey and Silver--Chelsea Embankment, Winter
December 22, 2015March 25, 2020

Inspired By the Dark

F1902.143a–b, James McNeill Whistler, Kobayashi Kiyochika
December 17, 2015March 25, 2020

Last Chance! Peacock Room Shutters Open Today

December 11, 2015March 25, 2020

Friday Fave: The Weavers

F1913.59a–c, Friday Fave, John Singer Sargent
Freer|Sackler photographer Neil Greentree tries out Google Cardboard
November 9, 2015March 25, 2020

Enter the Peacock Room with Google Cardboard

Peacock Room
from top left, Teens in Filthy Lucre, working on the project, arriving at the Freer, with printmaker XX
October 2, 2015March 25, 2020

Teen Artist Residency: Peacock Printmaking Project

Filthy Lucre, Peacock Room
September 25, 2015March 25, 2020

Friday Fave: Sunrise

Dwight William Tryon, F1915.129a–b, Friday Fave
August 28, 2015March 25, 2020

Friday Fave: Filthy Lucre

Filthy Lucre, Friday Fave, James McNeill Whistler, Peacock Room
Detail, Blue and Gold: The Rose Azalea
August 4, 2015March 25, 2020

Beyond the Instagram Filter

James McNeill Whistler
July 9, 2015March 25, 2020

Peacock Room REMIX: Break it Down

Filthy Lucre, Peacock Room
June 19, 2015March 25, 2020

Friday Fave: “Sunrise: April”

digitization, F1906.79a–b, Friday Fave
April 3, 2015March 25, 2020

Friday Fave: Sunflower Andirons

Charles Lang Freer, digitization, Filthy Lucre, Friday Fave, FSC-M-66a–b, James McNeill Whistler
March 20, 2015March 25, 2020

Friday Fave: Breakfast in the Loggia

digitization, F1917.182a–b, Friday Fave
January 30, 2015March 25, 2020

Friday Fave: “The Lute” by Thomas Dewing

digitization, F1913.34a, Friday Fave, music
August 14, 2014March 25, 2020

Whistler, Hiroshige, and a Fortunate Find

An American in London: Whistler and the Thames, James McNeill Whistler
August 7, 2014March 25, 2020

Whistler and the British Music Hall

F1896.76, James McNeill Whistler
July 16, 2014March 25, 2020

You Ask, We Answer: Why is American art in the Freer|Sackler?

Charles Lang Freer, F1904.75a, James McNeill Whistler, Peacock Room
May 11, 2014March 25, 2020

Mother Knows Best

FSC-GR-619, James McNeill Whistler
May 2, 2014March 25, 2020

London Calling

James McNeill Whistler
February 25, 2014March 25, 2020

Happy Birthday, Charles Lang Freer!

Charles Lang Freer, Edward Steichen
February 12, 2014March 25, 2020

Whistler Gone Wilde

aestheticism, James McNeill Whistler
Kenzan style tea bowl with design of crane and flowing water
November 27, 2013March 25, 2020

Angry Birds?

Charles Lang Freer, Dewing, F1896.100, F1896.53, Japan, Sylvan Sounds
August 12, 2013March 25, 2020

Almost Perfect: Maud Franklin and Whistler’s Wistful Impressions

F1903.82, James McNeill Whistler
July 11, 2013March 25, 2020

Happy Birthday, Jimmy Whistler!

James McNeill Whistler, Peacock Room
May 2, 2013March 25, 2020

Charles Lang Freer: A Wild and Crazy Guy?

Freer at 90, music
December 24, 2012March 25, 2020

Something Fishy at the Freer House

Charles Lang Freer, Maya Foo
September 28, 2012March 25, 2020

Join Us for A Tale of Two Cities: London and DC

James McNeill Whistler, Maya Foo
June 21, 2012March 25, 2020

Peacocks: Four Men in Three Acts

F1901.188, Frederick Richards Leyland, Google Art Project, James McNeill Whistler, Peacock Room, Thomas Jeckyll
book cover for The Peacock Room Comes to America
June 20, 2012March 25, 2020

It’s a Book: The Peacock Room Comes to America

James McNeill Whistler, Peacock Room
Portrait of the Artist's Eldest Daughter
May 25, 2012March 25, 2020

New On View: Mary Thayer

Abbott Handerson Thayer, F1906.96a, Lee Glazer
May 11, 2012March 25, 2020

Cooking with Whistler’s Mother

F1898.93, James McNeill Whistler
Kenzan style desk screen with design of mountain retreat
April 3, 2012March 25, 2020

Eye Wonder Redux

Google Art Project, Peacock Room
March 27, 2012March 25, 2020

Crying Fowl at the Freer!

James McNeill Whistler, Peacock Room, Winged Spirits: Birds in Chinese Paintings
painting of woman sitting in chair holding a carnation
March 13, 2012March 25, 2020

Women on the Verge of the Twentieth Century

Abbott Handerson Thayer, Charles Lang Freer, Charles Wilmer Dewing, F1896.33a, James McNeill Whistler, Thomas Dewing, women, Women's History Month
November 29, 2011March 25, 2020

Why Bento?

Freer Gallery, James McNeill Whistler
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