Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919) made his money as a railroad-car manufacturer. A discerning collector

"With Kindest Regards records the extraordinary friendship between the American expatriate artist James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) and his most significant pa

When the railroad car manufacturer Charles Freer retired from business at age forty-five, he set out to create a world-class art collection that combined ancien

Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) was a shrewd businessman, world traveler, self-taught aesthete, and a highly disciplined collector whose enduring legacy was the

Published on the occasion of the exhibition The Art of the Qur'an: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, Istanbul, held at the Arthur M. Sackle