Resources
Archives
Freer folder sheets
Freer price list
Bookshelf
Catalogues
This catalogue includes entries for 34 jades in Freer’s collection, which were being published by him for the first time.
Art Institute of Chicago. Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Ancient Chinese Paintings, Sculptures, and Jade Objects from the Collection Formed by Charles Lang Freer. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1917.
Books
Staff of the Freer Gallery intermittently produced guides to their installations.
Gallery Guide for installation of jades and bronzes in Freer Gallery 19 opening October 11, 1946
Gallery Guide for installation of jades and bronzes in Freer Gallery 19 opening November 10, 1949
Gallery Guide for installation of jades and bronzes in Freer Gallery 19 opening January 30, 1951
Articles
Several publications have featured important objects in the National Museum of Asian Art collection
Dohrenwend, Doris J. “Jade Demonic Images from Early China.” Ars Orientalis 10 (1975), 55-78.Murray, Julia K. “Neolithic Chinese Jades in the Freer Gallery of Art.” Orientations 14, no. 11 (1983), 14–22.
Wilson, J. Keith. “Thinking Green: Chinese Jades Reworked in the Second Millennium BCE.” Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society 77 (2012-2013), 39-56.
Bibliography
Google Cultural Institute
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