List of public art in Detroit
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This list applies only to works of public art accessible in an outdoor public space. For example, this does not include artwork visible inside a museum.
Additional works can be found at:
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Art Inventories Catalog - database for Detroit
Selected artworks
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Atom Gazelle | Belle Isle Park | 1991 | Richard Bennett | sculpture | stainless steel | City of Detroit | ||||
Balancing Act | One Campus Martius 42°20′0″N 83°2′47″W / 42.33333°N 83.04639°W |
2016 | HOW and NOSM | mural | 184 x 60 feet (56.1 x 18.2 m) | Library Street Collective[2] | ||||
Detroit Chimera Graffiti Mural | Russell Industrial Center, Building Number 2 42°22′39.71″N 83°3′39.89″W / 42.3776972°N 83.0610806°W |
between 2010 and 2012 | Kobie Solomon | mural | 8,750 square feet (813 square meters) | Russell Industrial Center | ||||
File:Gateway to Freedom International Memorial to the Underground Railroad - Detroit - front.jpg | Gateway to Freedom International Memorial to the Underground Railroad | Philip A. Hart Plaza 42°19′35″N 83°2′38″W / 42.32639°N 83.04389°W |
dedicated October 20, 2001 | Edward Dwight | sculpture | City of Detroit | ||||
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General Alexander Macomb | Washington Boulevard at Michigan Avenue 42°19′55″N 83°3′3″W / 42.33194°N 83.05083°W |
dedicated September 11, 1908 | Adolph Alexander Weinman | sculpture | bronze | 9 feet x 44 inches x 42 inches (2.7 m x 1.1 m x 1 m) ) | City of Detroit | ||
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Hamtramck Disneyland | Hamtramck 42°24′26.2″N 83°3′31″W / 42.407278°N 83.05861°W |
created 1992, finished 1999 | Dmytro Szylak | installation | Hatch Art | ||||
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Heidelberg Project | McDougall-Hunt neighborhood, east Detroit
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created 1986, ongoing | Tyree Guyton | installation | Tyree Guyton | ||||
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Horace E. Dodge and Son Memorial Fountain | Philip A. Hart Plaza 42°19′37″N 83°2′38″W / 42.32694°N 83.04389°W |
1972-1979, dedicated October 14, 1981 | Isamu Noguchi | fountain | stainless steel and black granite | 30 feet (9.1 m) | City of Detroit | ||
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James Scott Memorial Fountain | Belle Isle Park | 1923, dedicated May 31, 1925 | Cass Gilbert and Herbert Adams | fountain | marble, cement, bronze | 18 feet x 75 feet (5.5 m x 22.9 m) | City of Detroit | ||
Monica | 500 Woodward | 2016 | Swoon | mural | 17 feet | Library Street Collective | ||||
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Monument to Joe Louis | Philip A. Hart Plaza 42°19′43.3″N 83°2′40.36″W / 42.328694°N 83.0445444°W |
dedicated October 16, 1986 | Robert Graham | sculpture | bronze | 25 feet 6 inches × 24 feet 6 inches (7 m 77.2 cm × 7 m 46.8 cm) | Detroit Institute of Arts | ||
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Passo di danza (Step of the Dance) | One Woodward Avenue, Jefferson Avenue entrance 42°19′43″N 83°2′43″W / 42.32861°N 83.04528°W |
1963 | Giacomo Manzù | sculpture | bronze | 11 feet (3.4 m) | One Woodward Avenue | ||
Pylon | Philip A. Hart Plaza 42°19′41.4″N 83°02′39.0″W / 42.328167°N 83.044167°W |
1972-1979 | Isamu Noguchi | sculpture | stainless steel | 20 x 7 x 7 feet (6 x 2.1 x 2.1 m) | City of Detroit | |||
The Spirit of Detroit | Coleman A. Young Municipal Center 42°19′45.47″N 83°2′40.66″W / 42.3292972°N 83.0446278°W |
1958 | Marshall Fredericks | sculpture | bronze | 312 inches (200.7 × 130.2 × 140.3 cm, 907.2 kg) | Coleman A. Young Municipal Center | |||
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The Thinker | Detroit Institute of Arts, southeast lawn 42°21′32″N 83°3′55″W / 42.35889°N 83.06528°W |
1904 | Auguste Rodin | sculpture | bronze | 79 × 51 1/4 × 55 1/4 inches, 2000 pounds (200.7 × 130.2 × 140.3 cm, 907.2 kg) | Detroit Institute of Arts | ||
File:Transcending monument.jpg | Transcending | Philip A. Hart Plaza 42°19′40″N 83°2′41″W / 42.32778°N 83.04472°W |
dedicated August 30, 2003 | David Barr and Sergio de Guisti | sculpture | steel | 63 feet (19.2 m) | City of Detroit | ||
Unity | 28 West Grand River Avenue 42°20′2″N 83°2′58″W / 42.33389°N 83.04944°W |
2017 | Charles McGee | mural | 118 x 50 feet | Library Street Collective | ||||
untitled mural | The Belt 42°20′5″N 83°2′49″W / 42.33472°N 83.04694°W |
2016 | Nina Chanel Abney | mural | Library Street Collective | |||||
untitled mural | 25 East Grand River Avenue 42°20′4″N 83°2′53″W / 42.33444°N 83.04806°W |
2015 | Aryz | mural | Library Street Collective | |||||
untitled mural | One Campus Martius 42°20′0″N 83°2′48″W / 42.33333°N 83.04667°W |
2015 | Shepard Fairey | mural | 184 feet (56.1 m) | Library Street Collective | ||||
File:AlexBrewer HENSE Madison Theatre Building Detroit Michigan 2014.jpg | untitled mural | Madison Building 42°20′9″N 83°2′57″W / 42.33583°N 83.04917°W |
2014 | HENSE | mural | 10,000 square feet (929 square meters) | Library Street Collective | |||
untitled mural | 14635 East Jefferson 42°22′27″N 82°56′30″W / 42.37417°N 82.94167°W |
2016 | Swoon and Baba Wayne | mural | Library Street Collective | |||||
Wayfinding: An Art Installation and Skate Park | Monroe Blocks 100 Monroe Avenue 42°19′58″N 83°2′42″W / 42.33278°N 83.04500°W |
from August 2017 through January 2018 | Ryan McGinness and Tony Hawk | installation | 4600 square feet (1402.1 square meters) | Library Street Collective and Cranbrook Art Museum | ||||
Weather Permitting | 35 East Grand River Avenue 42°20′4″N 83°2′52″W / 42.33444°N 83.04778°W |
2017 | Willie Wayne Smith | mural | Library Street Collective |
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Further reading
- Herron, Jerry et al. Connecting the Dots: Tyree Guyton's Heidelberg Project. Wayne State University Press, 2007.
- Nawrocki, Dennis Alan. Art in Detroit Public Places. Wayne State University Press, 2008.
References
- ^ "Gazelle, (sculpture)". Art Inventories Catalog. Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved September 18, 2017.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "PUBLIC ART". Library Street Collective. Retrieved September 15, 2017.
- ^ "Best Bizarre Statues Or Public Art In The Detroit Area". CBS Detroit. Retrieved September 14, 2017.
- ^ "International Underground Railroad Memorial, (sculpture)". Art Inventories Catalog. Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved September 14, 2017.
- ^ "General Alexander Macomb, (sculpture)". Art Inventories Catalog. Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved September 16, 2017.
- ^ "Hamtramck Disneyland sold to local art collective". The Detroit News. Retrieved September 14, 2017.
- ^ "The Heidelberg Project — History". Retrieved September 14, 2017.
- ^ "Heidelberg Project, (sculpture)". Art Inventories Catalog. Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved September 14, 2017.
- ^ "Philip A. Hart Plaza: Horace E. Dodge Fountain, (sculpture)". Art Inventories Catalog. Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved September 14, 2017.
- ^ "James Scott Memorial Fountain, (sculpture)". Art Inventories Catalog. Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved September 18, 2017.
- ^ "Monument to Joe Louis, 1986". The Detroit Institute of Arts. Retrieved September 14, 2017.
- ^ "Detroit sculpture of Joe Louis' fist getting overhaul". The Detroit News. Retrieved September 14, 2017.
- ^ "Passo di Danza, (sculpture)". Art Inventories Catalog. Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved September 16, 2017.
- ^ "Philip A. Hart Plaza: Pylon, (sculpture)". Art Inventories Catalog. Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved September 14, 2017.
- ^ "Spirit of Detroit". The Detroit Historical Society. Retrieved September 14, 2017.
- ^ "The Thinker, 1904". The Detroit Institute of Arts. Retrieved September 14, 2017.
- ^ "Michigan Labor Legacy Landmark (sculpture)". Art Inventories Catalog. Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved September 14, 2017.
- ^ "Wayfinding: An Art Installation + Skate Park by Ryan McGinness and Tony Hawk". Cranbrook Art Museum. Retrieved September 15, 2017.
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