Surface Beauty: American Art and Freer's Aesthetic Vision February 12, 2010

Freer Gallery of Art
1200 Jefferson Dr Sw
Washington, District of Columbia 20024

This one-room exhibition brings together a group of decorative paintings by Thomas Dewing (1851-1938) and Dwight Tryon (1849-1925), together with a selection of ceramics from the Detroit Pewabic Pottery, to highlight the importance of "surface beauty" to Freer's aesthetic philosophy.

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