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Sylvan Sounds: Freer, Dewing, and Japan

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photo of Freer floorplan from

First-floor plan, Freer Gallery of Art, 1919

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
Plan showing the original arrangement of galleries, with the Japanese screen gallery (labeled "Japanese Paintings") linking the Whistler galleries to the other galleries devoted to American art.