Detroits Artwork: 100 City Acquisitions

June 4, Henry Ford test drives his first automobile on the streets of Detroit. Ford leaves the company in August , and it becomes the Cadillac Motor Co. Detroit is America's 13th biggest city, with a population of about , June 16, Ford starts the Ford Motor Co. Ford soon moves his operations to the suburb of Dearborn. The company hasn't built a car in Detroit since Shift change at the Ford factory in Detroit, circa Today, GM is now the only one of the major U. June 6, Walter Chrysler starts the Chrysler Corp.

It is now headquartered in Auburn Hills, a Detroit suburb. It still stands today, a symbol of Detroit's long, slow decline. The crumbling Packard plant, in October With artists like the Supremes, the Temptations, Martha and the Vandellas, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, and the Jackson 5, Motown has singles hit the Top 20 in the s, and changes the direction of popular music. July , The Twelfth Street riot, one of the biggest in U.

In five days of rioting, 43 people are killed, injured, and more than 7, arrested. Some 2, buildings are destroyed. A vehicle is crushed at U. Auto Supply in Detroit on August 3, He serves until September Kilpatrick pleads guilty to obstruction of justice charges and leaves office. May-July Chrysler and GM declare bankruptcy, and the Obama administration provides financing and guides the automakers through expedited bankruptcy proceedings. March The U. Census Bureau reports that Detroit's population has fallen to ,, a 25 percent plummet from and the lowest level in years.

Detroit's finances are premised on a minimum tax base of , people.

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A new law, Public Act 4, that allows the state to intervene in financially troubled local governments takes effect. November Voter repeal Public Act 4. The Photography of Charles Sheeler: American Modernist September 8, — December 5, Prints from Charles Sheeler's major series are displayed in this exhibit, including images of his house and barns in Doylestown, Pennsylvania captured in and ; stills from the film Manhatta; photographs of Chartres Cathedral taken in ; and images of American industry created in the s for Fortune magazine. Glass From the Olnick Spanu Collection December 12, — February 27, The exhibit displays about Venetian blown glass pieces made in the 20th-century, organized in chronological order.

Gerard ter Borch February 27, — May 22, The exhibit contains paintings of the 17th-century Dutch life created by Gerard ter Borch. This exhibit contains hundreds of ceramics, paintings, drawings, sculptures, and videos. Camille Claudel and Rodin: Sixty-two sculptures by Claudel and fifty-eight by Rodin created before the two artists met along with sculptures created during the good and bad years of their relationship are displayed.

African American Art from the Walter O. Evan's private collection will be displayed in the exhibit. This exhibit contains ceramics, drawings, collages, jewelry, and more. The Big Three in Printmaking: American Music September 24, — January 7, Annie Leibovitz's photographs of legends of roots music and younger artists influenced by them are displayed in the exhibit. Seventy portraits of hers are displayed in the exhibit, including B. Ansel Adams March 4, — May 27, The exhibit contains over black and white photographs taken by Ansel Adams ranging from the early s to the s.

The Best of the Best: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs from the DIA Collection November 23, — March 2, The DIA has chosen over of the "best" prints, drawings, and photographs out of the museums 35, pieces of work to be displayed in the exhibit. Some pieces that will be displayed are Michelangelo's double-sided chalk and pen and ink drawing of showing decoration schemes for the Sistine Chapel ceiling; Russet Landscape by Edgar Degas from the s; and Wheels by Charles Sheeler in Before , a commission was established to choose an architect to design a new building to house the DIA's expanding collections.

Gray, architect Albert Kahn and industrialist Edsel Ford. Valentiner , the museum director acted as art director and Clyde H. Burroughs was the secretary. The group chose Philadelphia architect Paul Philippe Cret as the lead architect and the firm of Zantzinger, Borie and Medary as associated architects, with Detroit architectural firms of Albert Kahn and C.

Howard Crane contributing "advice and suggestions. The cornerstone for new Beaux-Arts , Italian Renaissance styled building was laid June 26, and the finished museum was dedicated October 7, In , Horace Rackham donated a casting of Auguste Rodin 's sculpture, The Thinker , acquired from a German collection, to the museum where it was exhibited while the new building was under construction.

The work was placed in the Great Hall of the new museum building. Sometime in the subsequent years the work was moved out of the building and placed on a pedestal in front of the building, facing Woodward Avenue and the Detroit Public Library across the street which was also constructed of white marble in the Beaux-Arts, Italian Renaissance style.

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The south and north wings were added in and respectively. Both were designed by Gunnar Birkerts and were originally faced in black granite to serve as a backdrop for the original white marble building. The south wing was later named in honor of museum benefactors Edsel and Eleanor Ford and the north wing for Jerome Cavanaugh who was Detroit Mayor during the expansion.

The Diego Rivera murals are widely regarded as great works of art and a unique feature of the museum. They were designed without the slightest thought given to the delicate architecture and ornament. They are quite simply a travesty in the name of art.

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The building also contains intricate iron work by Samuel Yellin , tile from Pewabic Pottery , and architectural sculpture by Leon Hermant. Architects for the renovation included Michael Graves and associates along with the SmithGroup. The Museum had its genesis in an tour of Europe made by local newspaper magnate James E. Scripps kept a journal of his family's five-month tour of art and culture in Italy, France, Germany, and the Netherlands, portions of which were published in his newspaper The Detroit News.

The series proved so popular that it was republished in book form called Five Months Abroad. The popularity inspired William H.

Brearley, the manager of the newspaper's advertising department to organize an art exhibit in , which was also extremely well received. Brearly convinced many leading Detroit citizens to contribute to establish a permanent museum. It was originally named the Detroit Museum of Art. Among the donors were James E. Scripps , his brother George H. Ferry , Christian H. Alger , Moses W. Joy, Francis Palms, Christopher R. Mabley , Simon J. Newberry , Cyrenius A.

Palmer , Philo Parsons, George B. Remick, Allan Shelden, William C. Weber, David Whitney Jr. Lothrop , and Hiram Walker.

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By , Scripps and Brearley had incorporated Detroit Museum of Arts, filling it with over 70 pieces of artwork acquired by Scripps during his time in Europe. Lasting as a museum less than 40 years, the impact the museum had on the city of Detroit was tremendous. The Art Loan Exhibition's success in had led to the creation of a board. The purpose of the board was to raise and establish funds to build a permanent art museum in the city. Donating money to the cause were some of Detroit's biggest names, including James E. Scripps , George H. Alger , and Sen. The old Detroit Museum of Art building opened in at E.

Jefferson Avenue it was finally demolished in The Detroit Museum of Art board of trustees changed the name to the Detroit Institute of Arts in and a committee began raising funds to build a new location with Scripps still at the helm. With the success of the arts, and the booming auto industry, families were flocking to the city; pushing for the need to expand the vision that Scripps had originally dreamed, a new building was raised and the DIA was born.

Another decision in that would have a lasting impact of the future of the museum was transferring ownership to the City of Detroit with the museum becoming a city department and receiving operating funds. The board of trustees became the Founder's Society a private support group that provided additional money for acquisitions and other museum needs. The museum sought the leadership of German art scholar Wilhelm Valentiner. It as under Valentiner's leadership as director that, the museum flush with money from a booming city and wealthy patrons, the size and quality of the DIA's collections grew significantly.

The DIA became the first U. Valentiner also reorganized how art was displayed at the museum. Breaking with the tradition of organizing artworks by their type with, for example, painting grouped together in one gallery and sculpture in another. Support for the museum came from Detroit philanthropists such as Charles Lang Freer , and the auto barons: Robert Hudson Tannahill of the Hudson's Department Store family, was a major benefactor and supporter of the museum, donating many works during his lifetime. Part of the current support for the museum comes from the state government in exchange for which the museum conducts statewide programs on art appreciation and provides art conservation services to other museums in Michigan.

The art dealer from whom they had purchased it reimbursed the museum. In , the museum discovered that Ludolf Backhuysen 's A Man-O-War and Other Ships off the Dutch Coast , a 17th-century seascape painting under consideration for purchase by the museum, had been looted from a private European collection by the Nazis. The museum contacted the original owners, paid the rightful restitution, and the family allowed the museum to accession the painting into its collection, adding another painting to the museum's already prominent Dutch collection. In another case, Detroit Institute of Arts v.

The museum was expanded with a south and north wing in and , respectively, giving space for the museum to receive two big gifts in , the collection of Robert Tannahill and Anna Thompson Dodge bequeathed the 18th-century French contents of the music room from her home, Rose Terrace, to the museum upon her death. As the fortunes of the city declined in the s and 80s so did its ability to support the DIA. In , even with reduced staff, the city was forced to close the museum for three weeks in June.

The State of Michigan provided funding to reopen and over this time period the state would play an increasing role in funding the museum. By , 70 percent of the DIA's funding was coming from the State of Michigan, that year the state facing a recession and budget deficit cut funding by more than 50 percent. This resulted in the museum having to close galleries and reduce hours, a fundraising campaign led by Joseph L.

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Hudson was able to restore operations. In , the Founder's Society signed an operating agreement with the City of Detroit that would have the Founder's Society operating as Detroit Institute of Arts, Inc take over management of the museum from the Art Department with the city retaining ownership of the DIA itself.

On February 24, , a year-old boy stuck a piece of chewing gum on Helen Frankenthaler 's abstract work The Bay , leaving a small stain. The museum's conservation lab successfully cleaned and restored the painting, which was returned to the gallery in late June As part of the settlement of the City of Detroit's bankruptcy ownership of the museum was transferred to Detroit Institute of Arts, Inc in December returning the museum to its pre status as an independent non-profit.

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