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The acquisitions including significant contributions to the DIA’s Native American collection are a highlight for the city’s marquee cultural institution after a rocky summer for cultural institutions across the country.
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“Sphae” (undated) by Mavis Pusey one of the 463 acquisitions made by the Detroit Institute of Arts this year. PICTURED ABOVE: “Reading the Fate of the Christ Child” (1667) by Josefa de Óbidos.
The Detroit Institute of Arts acquired 463 works of art this year.
While the vast majority of those acquisitions were gifts to the museum, about $3.5 million of the museum’s restricted funds were spent to acquire 24 works of art, including work by groundbreaking abstract artist Mavis Pusey and landscape painter Thomas Cole among others.