Detroit Style at the DIA - Car Design in the Motor City, 1950–2020

[Lowell]

There currently are two outstanding Detroit-themed exhibitions at the DIA [Detroit Institute of Arts], Detroit Style: Car Design in the Motor City, 1950–2020 and a photo exhibition of Detroit images by Russ Marshall which I show in a separate thread.

Detroit Style: Car Design in the Motor City, 1950–2020 currently fills the second floor Modern Art galleries with fabulous concept cars, drawings and paintings by Detroit designers. [Reminder, due to pandemic restrictions, you must first go online and make a reservation to be able to visit the DIA].

Detroit genius and creativity at its best!

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Drawing being made with black tape.

[Richard]

Pretty cool

Here is the back story with Harley Earl who smashed Henry Fords,you can have it in any color,as long as it is black concept.

https://www.carbodydesign.com/2012/06/gm-design-the-timeline/

Interesting how the times influenced the designs,the Art Deco period,the jet age then the space race,you do not see that anymore.

Those cars were like buying a piece of art work.

[Kathleen]

We enjoyed this long-awaited exhibit on a recent Sunday morning [[timed tickets, temperature check, moderated gallery capacity...perfectly safe!).

Nice to see the cars and design drawings and associated art in a chronological presentation.

[jiminnm]

Wish we could be there to see that exhibit. At least I bought the book. We did see the original Detroit Style, Automotive Form 1925-1950 exhibit at the DIA in 1985.

For those interested in Harvey Earl and GM, there's an excellent book titled Fins by William Knoedelseder.