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Exhibitions:

Van Gogh in America

Van Gogh’s Artistic Roots: The Hague School and French Realism

Conscious Response: Photographers Changing the Way We See

Printmaking in the Twenty-First Century

Events

Van Gogh in America
Through January 22, 2023

$7 - $29 | Free for DIA Members

See Van Gogh in Detroit with the exhibition Van Gogh in America, which celebrates the Detroit Institute of Art’s status as the first public museum in the United States to purchase a painting by Vincent van Gogh, his Self-Portrait (1887). On the 100th anniversary of its acquisition, experience 74 authentic Van Gogh works from around the world and discover the fascinating story of America’s introduction to this iconic artist, in an exhibition only at the DIA.

A full-length, illustrated catalogue with essays by the exhibition curator and Van Gogh scholars will accompany the exhibition. The Detroit Institute of Arts is the exclusive venue for this exhibition.

The exhibition will explore the considerable efforts made by early promoters of modernism in the United States—including dealers, collectors, private art organizations, public institutions, and the artist’s family—to introduce the artist, his biography, and his artistic production into the American consciousness.

Van Gogh’s Artistic Roots: The Hague School and French Realism
Through January 29, 2023
Free with general admission

In conjunction with the upcoming exhibition Van Gogh in America, this focused installation presents a selection of 12 paintings and works on paper from the DIA’s collection by Dutch and French realist artists, all of whom were contemporaries of Vincent van Gogh, while several of them significantly impacted his early artistic development.

Van Gogh particularly admired the painterly innovations of the Hague School––a group named for the city in the Netherlands where its core artists lived and worked beginning about 1870. Van Gogh spent time in The Hague and knew several of these artists personally, including Anton Mauve and very likely Jozef Israëls, who especially captivated the young Van Gogh.

Mauve, Israëls, and other fellow Hague School artists explored themes that were also taken up by Van Gogh: rural landscapes with waterways, marshes, and dunes in the environs of The Hague; traditional ways of life maintained by peasant and fishing communities; and seascapes with sailboats, windmills, and canals.

Hague School artists took their inspiration from Dutch 17th-century painters and from French artists, known as Barbizon School and working in the tradition of realism, most prominently Jean-François Millet, who featured French peasant and rural themes in his work. Léon-Augustin Lhermitte followed in Millet’s footsteps and devoted his career to depicting the French countryside. Van Gogh had life-long regard for Millet and valued the work of Lhermitte––works by both artists will be included on rotating basis in the installation, which features 12 works on paper and paintings from the DIA’s permanent collection.

Conscious Response: Photographers Changing the Way We See
Through January 8, 2023

Conscious Response explores the history of visual storytelling and image making as seen through the eyes of artists who have used photography to record and reflect upon human experiences that impact the work they make and our perceptions of the world. It features black-and-white and color photographs from the 1950s to the present day with works by Diane Arbus, Dawoud Bey, Bruce Davidson, Roy Decarava, Robert Frank, Kenro Izu, Gordon Parks, Doug and Mike Starn, and Hiroshi Sugimoto in addition to emerging and mid-career artists including Farah Al Qasimi, Genesis Báez, Brian Day, Merik Goma, Jarod Lew, Jova Lynne, Millee Tibbs, and Corine Vermeulen. The exhibition focuses on the many extraordinary gifts and other recent acquisitions made by the DIA and never before on view.

Printmaking in the Twenty-First Century
Through April 9, 2023
Free with general admission

The Detroit Institute of Arts presents Printmaking in the Twenty-First Century, an exhibition that celebrates the range and ingenuity of artwork by contemporary printmakers, featuring more than 60 prints, posters and artists’ books by local, national and international artists, such as Hernan Bas, Susan Goethel Campbell, Enrique Chagoya, Marc Dion, Nicole Eisenman, Walton Ford, Chitra Ganesh, Rashid Johnson, Julie Mehretu, Michael Menchaca, Ryan Standfest, Katia Santibañez, James Siena, Dyani White Hawk, Ai Weiwei and more. This exhibition features works using the latest digital tools, techniques used in the fifteenth century, and a combination of these methods, and highlights many works recently acquired by the DIA.

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