by The Detroit Institute of Arts is a pretty impressive art museum in a city that often gets a bum rap. It’s located in midtown Detroit, Michigan, and has one of the largest art collections in the United States.
The 658,000-square-foot museum has more than 100 galleries. It was one of those miserable layouts where you enter one room and have multiple exit options , making it near impossible to keep track of what you’d seen and not miss anything. I resorted to tracing my route on a map, and am sure I still missed some stuff.
That being said, the collection is considered one of the best in the United States. It dates back to 1883 when it received it first painting, and today has more than 65,000 works.
The cover photo features four Jean-Honore Fragonard paintings circa 1754-55, Scenes of Country Life: The Shepherdess, The Gardener, The Grape Gatherer, The Reaper. The Large Writing Table underneath is circa 1780 by Jean-Henri Riesener. The piece atop the top is Maternity by Joseph-Charles Marin, circa 1793.
