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THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS 

The Detroit Institute of Arts, a city-owned museum, last year bought 71 items but was given 489 more.  From them the institute's director, Edgar P. Richardson, picked the 31 objects above, worth $170,000.  Richardson leans on a portrait by the early 19th Century American, Charles Willson Peale.  In foreground, wooden head (center) is that of a Cameroon native while the marble one (extreme left) is that of Robert Fulton, carved by 19th Century Frenchman, Houdon.  Below Fulton stand two old American jugs.  New England table (c. 1760) supports old American earthenware and silver.  Statues behind it by Jacopo Sansovino, a 16th Century Italian, represent Neptune (left), Mars (right),
while chair at far right is a Canadian antique (c. 1820) with a rawhide seat.  Along bottom of the wall (left to right) hang The Tempest by Albert Ryder, 19th Century American; a Canadian crucifix; Assyrian bas-relief (c. 750 B.C.) showing a king holding court, and the head of a Greek satyr.  The three pictures at far left are (top) a still life by the contemporary German, Max Beckmann; (center) and crucifixion (15th Century French); and (bottom) a portrait y Frans Hals, the 17th Century Dutchman.  Big canvas in center, by Ribera, a 17th Century Spaniard, portrays St. Jerome in the Desert. At right (top) are Edward Walsh's view of the St. Lawrence; a boudoir scene by Pater, 18th
Century Frenchman; and (below) a heroic scene by Gros, a 19th Century Frenchman, showing Murat Defeating the Turkish Army at Abourkir,

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Titles of art are italicized