Posted by Dale Carlson on October 23, 2012 in Best of Detroit - No comments

20 Masterwork Paintings at the Detroit Institute of Arts

Back in August 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 Love Detroit Michigan, the stunning breadth of the Institute’s holdings. We hope you’ll enjoy this, our first of many future posts focusing on the artworks within, upon and nearby this most priceless repository of local, national and international culture. ~I♥DM

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1. “Christ at the Column” (c. Early 1500s)

Oil on canvas (transferred from panel)

Antonio de Saliba, Italian, 1466-1535

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2. “Solomon Worshiping a Pagan God” (c. 1695-1700)

Oil on canvas

Domenico Antonio Vaccaro, Italian, 1678-1745

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3. “The Piazza San Marco” (c. 1738-1740)

Oil on canvas

Giovanni Antonio Canal aka Canaletto, Italian, 1697-1768

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4. “George Washington” (1795)

Oil on canvas

Rembrandt Peale, American, 1778-1860

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5. “Head of a Man” (1865)

Oil on canvas

Paul Cézanne, French, 1839-1906

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6. “Alexander J. Cassatt” (c. 1880)

Oil on canvas

Mary Cassatt, American, 1844-1926

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7. “Madame Paul Poirson” (1885)

Oil on Canvas

John Singer Sargent, American, 1856-1925

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8. “View of Le Crotoy from Upstream” (1889)

Oil on canvas

Georges Seurat, French, 1859-1891

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9. “Bank of the Oise at Auvers” (1890)

Oil on canvas

Vincent van Gogh, Dutch, 1853-1890

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10. “Girl in a White Blouse” (c. 1915)

Oil on canvas

Amedeo Modigliani, Italian, 1884-1920

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11. “Three Top Sergeants” (1925)

Oil on canvas

George Benjamin Luks, American, 1866-1933

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12. “Shadow Country” (1927)

Oil on canvas

Yves Tanguy, French, 1900-1955

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13. “Stables” (1932)

Oil on canvas

Georgia O’Keeffe, American, 1887-1986

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14. “Detroit Industry” (1932-1933)

Fresco

Diego M. Rivera, Mexican, 1886-1957

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15. “Log Jam, Penobscot Bay” (1940-1941)

Oil on Masonite

Marsden Hartley, American, 1877-1943

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16. “Waterfront” (c. 1940)

Oil on canvas

J. Francis Criss, American, 1901-1973

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17. “Anemones and Peach Blossoms” (1944)

Oil on canvas

Henri Matisse, French, 1869-1954

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18. “Women and Bird in the Night” (1944)

Oil on canvas

Joan Miró, Spanish, 1893-1983

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19. “Study for Brushstroke with Spatter” (1966)

Oil on canvas

Roy Lichtenstein, American, 1923-1997

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20. “Be I (second version)” (1970)

Acrylic on canvas

Barnett Newman, American, 1905-1970

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Dale Carlson grew up along the northeastern shores of Lake Michigan, where at a young age Detroit called out to him in his dreams. In 2008, after extended stays in ten different Michigan cities, the author settled permanently in southeast Oakland County where he currently lives and works in various capacities within the local real estate industry.