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Today in Smithsonian History: February 20, 1994

Painted screen

Eight-Fold Screen Painting of the Sun, Moon and Peach Trees, by an unknown 19th-century Korean artist. (US PD via Wikimedia Commons)

February 20, 1994 “Korean Arts of the Eighteenth Century: Splendor and Simplicity” opens at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. This is the first major exhibition of Korean art at the Sackler.

The Freer Gallery of Art was the first museum of the Smithsonian Institution to be dedicated to the fine arts. The Freer and the neighboring Arthur M. Sackler Gallery together form the national museum of Asian art for the United States.

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