Getty, Mellon Trusts Add $13 Million to Help Save Detroit's Art
- June 11, 2014 22:06
After U.S. automakers announced ealier this week a combined $26 million pledge to save the collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts from the city's creditors, two charitable foundations followed suit on Wednesday with a $13 million pledge for the museum.
The J. Paul Getty Trust will give $3 million and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation pledged $10 million as part of the "Grand Bargain" to keep the DIA's art from being sold to alleviate Detroit's $18 billion debt load.
![A 19th century Seven Piece "Chrysanthemum" Pattern Sterling Silver Coffee & Tea Service, which was exhibited in the Tiffany & Co. booth at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exhibition in Chicago](/images/c/78/96/Tiffany___Co__Makers_Seven_Piece_"Chrysanthem100x100_c.jpg "A 19th century Seven Piece \"Chrysanthemum\" Pattern Sterling Silver Coffee & Tea Service, which was exhibited in the Tiffany & Co. booth at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exhibition in Chicago")
_-Closing-the-Distance_100x100_c.jpg "Lot 204: Bob Kuhn (1920–2007),Closing the Distance, 1977, acrylic on masonite, 24 x 48 in, Sold: $409,500")
