10 More Masterworks at the Detroit Institute of Arts
Back in August of 2012 we encouraged our readers in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb Counties to “Vote Yes on the Detroit Institute of Arts Millage!”. Today we reap the benefits of the proposal’s passage in all three counties with near-weekly free visits to the unquestioned best fine art museum in all of Southeast Michigan. Having now traipsed through the numerous galleries therein, time and time again, we find ourselves desiring to illustrate here, in the pages of I♥DM, the stunning breadth of the Institute’s holdings. We hope you’ll enjoy this, our second of many future posts focusing on the artworks within, upon and nearby this most priceless repository of local, national and international culture. Of the works included here, there’s only one repeat from our prior DIA related web-post in October of 2012: Diego Rivera’s Detroit Industry Frescoes, which, in our opinion, command inclusion in any analysis of the DIA’s legacy, however slight. One last note, Francis Davis Millet, who’s work is featured in entry #1, died on April 15th, 1912 on account of being aboard the RMS Titanic when it sank in the North Atlantic. Wow. Who woulda thought? ~I♥DM
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1. “Reading the Story of Oenone” (c.1883)
Oil on canvas
Francis Davis Millet, American, 1846-1912
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2. “A Woman” (1910)
Oil on canvas
Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss, 1853-1918
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3. “In the Forest” (c.1919)
Oil on canvas
Heinrich Campendonk, German, 1889-1957
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4. “Still Life” (1925)
Oil on canvas
Jean Metzinger, French, 1883-1956
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5. “Detroit Industry” (1932-1933)
Fresco
Diego M. Rivera, Mexican, 1886-1957
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6. “The Moods of Time: Evening” (1938)
Bronze
Paul Manship, American, 1885-1966
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7. “Silver Shoes” (1976-1977)
Shoes, cotton, paint
Yayoi Kusama, American, born 1929
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8. “Rosa Parks, Heidelberg Fragment” (1986)
Oil paint on street sign
Tyree Guyton, American, born 1955
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9. “Regaining the Edge” (1990)
Multilayered blown and sandblasted glass
W. Stephen Hodder, American, born 1951
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10. “Mad Elga II” (1997)
Oil and mixed media on canvas
Jane Hammond, American, born 1950
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