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Delve into our extensive catalogue of research publications. Browse Ars Orientalis, one of the oldest scholarly journals focused on art of the Near East and Asia, or check out the different themes addressed in our Freer Occasional Papers series. Learn more about research at the museum.

Art Meets Science

Learn about the material analysis of art and the technologies of art preservation. Examine pigments, papers, chemicals, and more through studies led by our conservators and scientists.

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Learn about our collections, including works that aren’t always on view in the museum, and what they tell us about different cultures.

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A Tale of Two Balconies (forthcoming 2024)
Kerry Roeder and Kit Brooks

Buddhism and the Senses: A Guide to the Good and Bad (forthcoming 2024)
Robert DeCaroli and Donald S. Lopez Jr. (eds.)

Imagined Neighbors: Visions of China in Japanese Art 1680–1980 (forthcoming 2024)
Frank Feltens (ed.)

Ars Orientalis 53 (2023)

Staging the Supernatural: Ghosts and the Theater in Japanese Prints (2023)
Kit Brooks and Frank Feltens

Whistler: Streetscapes, Urban Change (2023)
David Park Curry

Research on Early Chinese Lacquer Buddhas: Proceedings of the Sixth Forbes Symposium at the Freer Gallery of Art (2023)
Donna Strahan and Blythe McCarthy (eds.)

Japan in the Age of Modernization: The Arts of Ōtagaki Rengetsu and Tomioka Tessai (2023)
Frank Feltens (ed.)

Global Lives of Objects: Celebrating 100 Years of the National Museum of Asian Art (2023)
Massumeh Farhad and Sana Mirza (eds.)

Art Stories (2023)

Ay-Ō Happy Rainbow Hell (2023)
Kit Brooks

A Splendid Land: Paintings from Royal Udaipur (2023)
Debra Diamond and Dipti Khera (eds.)

The Great Mongol Shahnama (2023)
Robert Hillenbrand

The Word Illuminated: Form and Function of Qurʾanic Manuscripts from the Seventh to Seventeenth Centuries (2023)
Simon Rettig and Sana Mirza (eds.)

Ars Orientalis 52 (2022)

Investigating Japan’s Edo Avant Garde (2022)

Ars Orientalis 51 (2021)

Sesson Shūkei: A Zen Monk-Painter in Medieval Japan (2021)
Frank Feltens and Yukio Lippit (eds.)

Scientific Studies of Pigments in Chinese Paintings (2021)
Blythe McCarthy and Jennifer Giaccai (eds.)

Ars Orientalis 50 (2020)

Teaching China with the Smithsonian (2020)

Dragon’s Roar: Chinese Literati Musical Instruments in the Freer and Sackler Collections (2020)
Yang Yuanzheng

Ars Orientalis 49 (2019)

Goryeo Buddhist Painting: A Closer Look (2019)
Chi-sun Park, Eunwoo Jeong, and Keith J. Wilson

The Ancient Near East Seal Collection (2019)
Antonietta Catanzariti

Whistler in Watercolor: Lovely Little Games (2019)
Lee Glazer, Emily Jacobson, Blythe McCarthy, Katherine Roeder

Whistler in Watercolor (2019)
Lee Glazer, Emily Jacobson, Blythe McCarthy, Ari Post, Kerry Roeder

Ars Orientalis 48 (2018)

Empresses of China’s Forbidden City, 1644–1912 (2018)
Yiyou Wang and Jan Stuart (eds.)

Ars Orientalis 47 (2017)

Paths to Perfection: Buddhist Art at the Freer|Sackler (2017)
Debra Diamond (ed.)

A Collector’s Passion: Ezzat-Malek Soudavar and Persian Lacquer (2017)
Massumeh Farhad, Simon Rettig, Mary McWilliams

Painting with Light: Photography at the Freer|Sackler (2017)
Carol Huh, David Hogge

Charles Lang Freer: A Cosmopolitan Life (2017)
Lee Glazer, Amelia Meyer

Ars Orientalis 46 (2016)

The Art of the Qur’an: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts (2016)
Massumeh Farhad, Simon Rettig

Performing Indonesia (2016)
Andy McGraw and Sumarsam (eds.)

Jades for Life and Death (2016–)
Keith Wilson

Ars Orientalis 45 (2015)

Time and Place Are Nonsense: The Films of Seijun Suzuki (2015)
Tom Vick

Sōtatsu (2015)
James T. Ulak, Yukio Lippit

Korean Ceramics in the Freer Gallery of Art (2015)
Louise Cort

Cherry Blossoms (2015)
James T. Ulak, Howard S. Kaplan

Ars Orientalis 44 (2014)

The World of the Japanese Illustrated Book: The Gerhard Pulverer Collection (2014)
Ann Yonemura, et al.

Chigusa and the Art of Tea (2014)
Louise Allison Cort, Andrew M. Watsky

Ars Orientalis 43 (2013)

A Perfect Harmony: The American Collection in the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art (2013)
Lee Glazer

Yoga: The Art of Transformation (2013)
Debra Diamond

The Look of the Book: Manuscript Production in Shiraz, 1303–1452 (2013)
Elaine Wright

Ars Orientalis 42 (2012)

Scientific Research on Ancient Asian Metallurgy: Proceedings of the Fifth Forbes Symposium at the Freer Gallery of Art (2012)
Paul Jett, Blythe McCarthy, and Janet G. Douglas (eds.)

The Imperial Image: Paintings for the Mughal Court (2012)
Milo Cleveland Beach

Korean Art in the Freer and Sackler Galleries (2012)
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

The Peacock Room Comes to America (2012)
Lee Glazer

Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan (2012)
Katherine R. Tsiang

Ars Orientalis 41 (2011)

Ars Orientalis 40 (2010)

Gods of Angkor: Bronzes from the National Museum of Cambodia (2010)
Louise Allison Cort and Paul Jett (eds.)

Shipwrecked: Tang Treasures and Monsoon Winds (2010)
Regina Krahl, John Guy, J. Keith Wilson, and Julian Raby (eds.)

Ideals of Beauty: Asian and American Art in the Freer and Sackler Galleries (2010)
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

Ars Orientalis 39 (2009)

Scientific Research on Historic Asian Ceramics: Proceedings of the Fourth Forbes Symposium at the Freer Gallery of Art (2009)
Blythe McCarthy, Ellen Salzman Chase, Louise Allison Cort, Janet G. Douglas, and Paul Jett (eds.)

The Tsars and the East: Gifts from Turkey and Iran in the Moscow Kremlin (2009)
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Gosudarstvennye muzei Moskovskogo Kremlin

Falnama: The Book of Omens (2009)
Massumeh Farhad, Serpil Bağcı

Ars Orientalis 38 (2008)

East Asian Paintings: Materials, Structures and Deterioration Mechanisms (2008)
John Winter

Ceramics in Mainland Southeast Asia (2008)
Louise Allison Cort, George Williams, David P. Rehfuss

James McNeill Whistler in Context: Essays from the Whistler Centenary Symposium, University of Glasgow, 2003 (2008)
Lee Glazer, Margaret F. MacDonald, Linda Merrill, and Nigel Thorp (eds.)

Garden and Cosmos: The Royal Paintings of Jodhpur (2008)
Debra Diamond, Catherine Glynn, Karni Singh Jasol

Ars Orientalis 37 (2007)

Scientific Research on the Sculptural Arts of Asia: Proceedings of the Third Forbes Symposium at the Freer Gallery of Art (2007)
Janet G. Douglas, Paul Jett, and John Winter (eds.)

Encompassing the Globe: Portugal and the World in the 16th & 17th Centuries (2007)
Jay M. Levenson (ed.)

Japanese Masterworks from the Price Collection (2007)
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

Ars Orientalis 36 (2006)

In the Beginning: Bibles Before the Year 1000 (2006)
Michelle P. Brown (ed.)

Ars Orientalis 35 (2005)

Scientific Research on the Pictorial Arts of Asia: Proceedings of the Second Forbes Symposium at the Freer Gallery of Art (2005)
Paul Jett, John Winter, and Blythe McCarthy (eds.)

Ars Orientalis 34 (2004)

Ars Orientalis 33 (2003)

Scientific Research in the Field of Asian Art: Proceedings of the First Forbes Symposium at the Freer Gallery of Art (2003)
Paul Jett, Janet G. Douglas, Blythe McCarthy, and John Winter (eds.)

Studies Using Scientific Methods: Pigments in Later Japanese Paintings (2003)
Elisabeth West FitzHugh, John Winter, Marco Leona

Ars Orientalis 32 (2002)

A Collector’s Journey: Charles Lang Freer and Egypt (2002)
Ann C. Gunter

A Freer Stela Reconsidered (2002)
Stanley K. Abe

Ars Orientalis 31 (2001)

Worshiping the Ancestors: Chinese Commemorative Portraits (2001)
Jan Stuart, Evelyn Sakakida Rawski

Ars Orientalis 30 (2000)

Ars Orientalis 29 (1999)

Ars Orientalis 28 (1998)

The Jesuits and the Grand Mogul: Renaissance Art at the Imperial Court of India, 1580–1630 (1998)
Gauvin Alexander Bailey

Dara-Shikoh Shooting Nilgais: Hunt and Landscape in Mughal Painting (1998)
Ebba Koch

Ars Orientalis 27 (1997)

Ars Orientalis 26 (1996)

Ars Orientalis 25 (1995)

With Kindest Regards: The Correspondence of Charles Lang Freer and James McNeill Whistler, 1890–1903 (1995)
Linda Merrill (ed.)

Ars Orientalis 24 (1994)

Ars Orientalis 23 (1993)

Ars Orientalis 22 (1992)

A Pot of Paint: Aesthetics on Trial in Whistler v. Ruskin (1992)
Linda Merrill

Ancient Iranian Metalwork in the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and the Freer Gallery of Art (1992)
Ann C. Gunter, Paul Jett

Ars Orientalis 21 (1991)

Ars Orientalis 20 (1990)

Investigating Artistic Environments in the Ancient Near East (1990)
Ann C. Gunter (ed.)

Ars Orientalis 19 (1989)

Ars Orientalis 18 (1988)

Ars Orientalis 17 (1987)

Ars Orientalis 16 (1986)

Ars Orientalis 15 (1985)

Ars Orientalis 14 (1984)

James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art (1984)
David Park Curry

Ars Orientalis 13 (1982)

Ars Orientalis 12 (1981)

The Whistler Peacock Room (1980)
Susan Hobbs

Ars Orientalis 11 (1979)

Ars Orientalis 10 (1975)

Art of the Arab World (1975)
Esin Atil

Ars Orientalis 9 (1973)

Two Early Chinese Bronze Weapons with Meteoritic Iron Blades (1971)
Rutherford J. Gettens, Roy S. Clarke, W. T. Chase

Ars Orientalis 8 (1970)

The Freer Chinese Bronzes: Volume II, Technical Studies (1969)
John Rutherford Gettens

Ars Orientalis 7 (1968)

Li Ti (1967)
Richard Edwards

Ars Orientalis 6 (1966)

Ars Orientalis 5 (1963)

Ars Orientalis 4 (1961)

Ars Orientalis 3 (1959)

Calligraphers and Painters: A Treatise by Qādī Ahmad, Son of Mir-Munshī, circa A.H. 1015/A.D. 1606 (1959)
Vladimir Minorsky (trans.)

The Lohans and a Bridge to Heaven (1958)
Wen Fong

Ars Orientalis 2 (1957)

Abstracts of Technical Studies in Art and Archaeology, 1943–1952 (1955)
Rutherford J. Gettens, Bertha M. Usilton

Ars Orientalis 1 (1954)

Fourteenth-Century Blue-and-White: A Group of Chinese Porcelains in the Topkapu Sarayi Müzesi, Istanbul (1952)
John Alexander Pope

A Royal Head from Ancient Egypt (1951)
George Steindorff; Richard Ettinghausen (trans.)

James McNeill Whistler: A Biographical Outline Illustrated from the Collections of the Freer Gallery of Art (1950)
Burns A. Stubbs

The Unicorn (1950)
Richard Ettinghausen

Paintings, Pastels, Drawings, Prints, and Copper Plates by and Attributed to American and European Artists, Together with a List of Original Whistleriana in the Freer Gallery of Art (1948)
Burns A. Stubbs

The Grand Empress Dowager Wên Ming and the Northern Wei Necropolis at Fang Shan (1947)
A. G. Wenley

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