Asia in Washington

The Charles Lang Freer Gallery, a Florentine granite palazzino, was duly opened in Washington by an official visit of the President. The Gallery contains the Freer collection which Mr. Freer gave to the nation through his friend, Theodore Roosevelt.

Whistler is the greatest single name in the collection. His famous " Peacock Room," transported bodily from London, is there, the room which Whistler painted for the English shipping magnate, Leyland, whom he satirized as a peacock rising from a mound of gold.

Other noted American painters are there, but the paramount distinction of the Freer collection is that it contains the world's finest and most complete examples of Asiatic art. Both Europe and Asia must go to Washington to study Asiatic art.