FORD MOTOR CO. TO SUPPORT TOUR
Ford Motor Co. said it will donate $1 million to the Detroit Institute of Arts Founder Society to support an international tour of the paintings of Diego Rivera.
The tour will be part of a celebration of the centennial of the artist’s birth.
The exhibition will open in Detroit in February, 1986, and travel to museums in Philadelphia, Madrid, West Berlin and Mexico City over an 18-month period.
The exhibition, including murals, will show development of the artist’s work from his early years in Mexico and Spain as well as his work in Paris, creation of the Mexican mural movement and commissions executed in the United States.
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