JASA: 3/13/16 Annual Meeting and Louise Cort Lecture 

SUNDAY, MARCH 13, 2016 -  12:00PM

ANNUAL MEETING AND SPECIAL LECTURE: Discovering Japanese Ceramics: Charles Lang Freer and adventures of collecting circa 1900 

Vase, Iga ware, Momoyama period, early 17th century, stoneware with natural and applied ash glazes, Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, gift of Charles Lang Freer, F1898.451

Special guest lecture with Louise Cort, Curator of Ceramics at the Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution. 

 

She will speak about American industrialist Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919) who formed his collection of Asian art at a time when few resources were available to guide him. To acquire Japanese ceramics, one of his earliest interests, he relied upon his direct experience of Japan through several extended sojourns, the advice of a few trusted dealers and experts, and above all his own aesthetic sense, shaped by his interest in the Aesthetic Movement and his conviction that beauty was universal. This talk will consider Freer's collecting of Japanese ceramics-both successes and pitfalls-and ask how his choices stand up to a century of hindsight.

This is a free ticketed event.  Advance ticketing required.  

For tickets, please click the "Register Now" button below, or contact Christy Laidlaw via email japaneseartsoc@yahoo.com or phone (917) 658-3955.