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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Oil on canvas
Rembrandt Peale, American, 1778-1860
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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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Oil on canvas
Yves Tanguy, French, 1900-1955
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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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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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