Freer Gallery of Art

The Freer Gallery of Art is the Smithsonian Institution's museum devoted to East Asian art, located on the south side of the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Its holdings from China, Korea, Japan and Southeast Asia include Chinese and Japanese paintings, Korean ceramics, Japanese screens and Persian and Indian manuscripts. Among the paintings on the site are Ōgata Kōrin's *Waves at Matsushima*, Zhao Mengfu's *Sheep and Goat* and Abu al-Hasan's *Emperor Jahangir Embraces Shah Abbas*. Its most represented artist, however, is James McNeill Whistler, whose works include *Harmony in Green and Rose: The Music Room* and *Nocturne: Grey and Silver – Chelsea Embankment, Winter*. Founded by the collector Charles Lang Freer, the gallery opened to the public in 1923.