Curriculum / Collection - Gant - Social Work: Community Assessment - 1st display

Single orange building on snow-covered ground with a large tree on the viewer's right. 
Object Orange
Auburndale Site, Highland Park, MI, #4
iris print on paper
22 ⅛ in x 33 1/16 in (22 ⅛ in x 83.98 cm);21 ⅝ in x 32 ½ in (21 ⅝ in x 32 ½ in);22 ⅛ in x 33 1/16 in (22 ⅛ in x 83.98 cm)
Museum purchase made possible by Stuart and Maxine Frankel
This painting has an overall blue and white palette, with pink and purple tones and shows a crowded group of people seated on chairs with tables. Most of the people are nude or partially-nude women. The main focus is a nude woman in the center wearing a top hat and holding a cane. In the foreground is a woman wearing clothes and sunglasses, her arms are crosed in front of her body. The men in the painting are fully clothed and each wears a hat.
Bradley Jones
White Cane
oil on canvas
4 ft. x 42 in. x 1 13/16 in. (121.92 x 106.68 x 4.45 cm)
Gift of H. David Zucca
Ryan McGinness
Hopeless Gifts to Official Culture
silkscreen on skateboard
2 3/16 x 30 15/16 x 7 13/16 in. (5.5 x 78.5 x 19.7 cm);2 3/16 x 30 15/16 x 7 13/16 in. (5.5 x 78.5 x 19.7 cm)
Museum purchase made possible by the Friends Acquisition Fund
A mixed media assemblage consisting of welding goggles, rusted metal, a padlock, and two rusted bells hanging from a chain mounted on a wooden board with screws. The position of the objects, with goggles at the top, makes the assemblage look vaguely face-like.
George Vargas
Michigan Worker
welding goggles, metal, hanging bells, rusty bottle cap, pulleys, chains, and padlock mounted on plywood
20 7/8 in x 10 3/8 in x 2 9/16 in (53.02 cm x 26.35 cm x 6.51 cm);20 7/8 in x 10 3/8 in x 2 9/16 in (53.02 cm x 26.35 cm x 6.51 cm)
Gift of the artist
Jon Onye Lockard
King of Spades
oil on canvas
4 ft. 5/16 in. x 36 5/16 in. x 1 3/8 in. (122.7 x 92.2 x 3.4 cm);4 ft. 5/16 in. x 36 5/16 in. x 1 3/8 in. (122.7 x 92.2 x 3.4 cm)
Gift of Romesh and Veena Saigal
Cityscape showing downtown Detroit against a reddish orange sky in 1947. Along the bottom edge of the painting, people wait to load a bus and several vehicles drive on a street perpendicular to them. Multiple buildings several stories tall line the background of the painting.
Carlos Lopez
Downtown Detroit
gouache on paper
27 in x 39 in (68.6 cm x 99.1 cm)
Gift of the J.L. Hudson Company
Michael Luchs
Untitled
spray paint on paper
36 in x 49 in (91.44 cm x 124.46 cm);38 in x 5 in x 1 in (96.52 cm x 12.7 cm x 2.54 cm)
Gift of the Jacqueline Feigenson Memorial Fund
This is an image of a school building and school yard from a birds-eye perspective. The school building is in the center of the image, and is gray with a blue roof and yellow in the windows and doorway. The building is surrounded by two red swing sets, a basketball hoop, a blue slide, and a tree. Children are scattered throughout the scene on the play equipment, and are also visible through the windows of the school.
Blanch Ackers
School
crayon on paper
12 1/16 in x 17 15/16 in (30.64 cm x 45.56 cm);15 1/16 in x 21 in (38.26 cm x 53.34 cm)
Gift of The Daniel and Harriet Fusfeld Folk Art Collection
A "Norton Abrasives" wooden crate is filled with empty rusted gallon paint containers with dried paint inside. A cracked rearview mirror is attached to one side and an American flag is smushed into one side of the box. A small toy platypus sits inside one of the paint cans, although the platypus is moveable; instructions to museum state that museum staff can place platypus where they please.
Tyree Guyton
Untitled (Paint Cans)
paint cans, wooden crate, American flag, rearview mirror, and ceramic figurine
33 1/2 in x 28 1/8 in x 12 in (85.09 cm x 71.44 cm x 30.48 cm)
Gift of H. David Zucca

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