The Original Freer Gallery of Art

Thomas Brunk,Ph.D.,art and architecture historian,founder of the Friends of the Freer House,author of The Charles L. Freer Residence:The Original Freer Gallery of Art,shares the story of Charles Lang Freer,one of Detroit’s leading industrialists of the Gilded Age,his collection of American and Asian art,now located in the Freer Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington,D.C. Presentation is part of a series of programs,The Gilded Age to the Great War:America at the Turn of the Century.