Re-discovered John Sloan WPA work journeys from trash to museum
- December 13, 2009 17:02
A painting created by American artist John Sloan 75 years ago and missing for 65 of them now hangs on a wall inside the Detroit Institute of Arts. Sloan painted "Fourteenth Street at Sixth Avenue" in 1934 for the Public Works of Art Project, which was created to employ artists during the Great Depression. Four years later, it vanished. The painting's wily provenance includes a congressman who pulled it from the trash pile.
_Infinity_by_Santiago_Medina_PhotoCr100x100_c.jpg "Santiago Medina’s “Infinity” is made with highly polished Italian stainless steel and displays in its organic sculptoric form, the infinite symbol. The sculpture measures 24 inches in height by 12 x 10 inches. Infinity is pictured in front of the Colombian landscape where it was cast in stainless steel at Medina’s studio in Medellin, Colombia and will be shipped to its permanent home at the Tisch Library, Tufts University, Boston, MA.")
