Korean Art in the Freer and Sackler Galleries

Title: Korean Art in the Freer and Sackler Galleries
Author List: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Publisher: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Publication Date: 2012
Publication Type: book
Format: print (softcover)
Pages: 216
ISBN: 9780934686235
Collection Area(s): Korean Art
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Description:

With more than 200 color and archival images, this guidebook presents the full scope of the museums’ Korean art collections. It first traces the formation of the Freer Gallery’s collection of 540 Korean objects, reversing the usual chronological order by following the collecting path of museum founder Charles Lang Freer. The book then describes how the Freer’s Korean collection has continued to grow, and presents the late twentieth-century Korean art that has been acquired by the Sackler Gallery since it opened in 1987.