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THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS
of The City of Detroit

THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS, formerly the DETROIT MUSEUM OF ART, corner of Jefferson Avenue and Hastings Street, is open daily from 9 A.M. to 5 P.M., Sundays and holidays from 2 until 6 P.M., admission free.

The Museum originated in the Art Loan Exhibition of 1882, after which citizens raised $100,000 by popular subscription to erect and equip a museum. The land, valued at $25,000, was given. The first building cost $66,000. Additions were made in 1883, 1897, and 1904, making the total cost of the building and grounds $227,000.

In 1919 the Detroit Museum of Art turned over all its property and collections, valued at upwards of a million dollars, to the Arts Commission of the City of Detroit, a department provided for in the new charter, and the name was changed to The Detroit Institute of Arts.

COLLECTIONS

SCULPTURE: The collection of sculpture includes works by the Renaissance sculptors, Ghiberti, Luca della Robbia, Bellano, Giovanni da Bologna and the German wood carvers, Veit Stoss, Jorg Syrlin the Younger and Gregor Erhardt; modern European sculpture is represented by "The Thinker," by Rodin; three bronzes by Constantin Meunier, three by Paul Troubetszkoy, one by Jean Boucher, and three by Antoine Louis Barye; American sculpture by examples of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Paul Manship, Solon H. Borglum, James Earle Fraser, Bessie Potter Vonnoh, Malvina Hoffman, J. Gutzon Borglum, A. A. Weinman, Anna Vaughn Hyatt, Chester Beach, Elie Nadelman, Frederick G. R. Roth, A. St. Leger Eberle, Mario Korbel, Isidor Konti and Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney; the collection also includes casts from the antique.

AMERICAN PAINTING includes examples of the work of Benjamin West, Rembrandt Peale, Alexander H. Wyant, Dwight W. Tryon, John Francis Murphy, Henry Golden Dearth, Francis Davis Millet, James McNeill Whistler, John Henry Twachtman, John Singer Sargent, William M. Chase, Frank W. Benson, Edward W. Redfield, Childe Hassam, Gari Melchers, Charles W. Hawthorne, Julian Alden Weir, Charles H. Woodbury, Willard L. Metcalf, Mary Cassatt, Daniel Garber, George W. Bellows, Robert Henri,