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Egyptianart in Detroit\n\nWILLIAM H.PECK  \nment,which cares for the arts of the Mediterrancan and theAncient Near East,is no exception to the original encyclopaedicconcept.The collections of Mesopotamian,Greck,Roman andEgyptian Art are representative rather than exhaustive but thevisitor has an opportunity to expericnce nany of the varied artforms of antiquity.  \nTN the ycar I883 the City of Detroit held its first importantLexhibition of works of art,called simply and without pre-tension,The Detroit Art Loan.Under the direction of en-thusiastic amateurs and with the aid of volunteer committees,abuilding of 26 galleries was constructed and an exhibitioncontaining 4,80I works was assembled.The range of objectsincluded painting,sculpture,prints,'bric-a-brac’and miscel-laneous objects of all kinds.This pilot cultural endeavour was agreat popular success;in ten weeks I34,924 people visited thedisplays and,perhaps as important,all expenses were met.Theimpact of this event was so strong that by I88s the DctroitMuseum of Art was incorporated and the City of Detroit waswell on its way to having a publicly owned art collection of note.  \nThe collecting of objects from Egypt,reflecting,as they do,part of the antiquity of man,has becn a respectable pursuit in theWest in modern times at least since the Napoleonic Campaigns inEgypt.The history of the European interest in things Egyptian isas old as a knowledge of the existencc of Egypt.Most nineteenth-century collections of Egyptian antiquities,however,weredecidedly accumulations of curios'rather than systematic at-  \nIn the Misccllaneous section were included about 2s0 Cyprioteobjects from the Cesnola Collection,listed in the catalogue as'duplicates of many in the Metropolitan Museum of New York'and part of the great mass of material assembled by General LouisPalma di Cesnola during the timc that he was United StatesConsul to Cyprus.Other periods of antiquity were representedby coins,small sculpture and bronzes.The Art,Culture,andMystery of Ancient Egypt were suggested by a group of objectsfrom thc Gorringe Collection,acquired by that gentleman whenhe superintended thc removal of the obelisk known as Cleo-patra's Needlc to Central Park in New York City.The descrip-tion of the objects is exactly what we would expect of a collectorin 1883:'Portrait of a Pharaoh(cearliest pcriod),‘Sacred Fish’,'God Osiris','Wooden model of a Mummy’,Fragment of oneof the original bronze crabs that supported the N.Y.Obelisk(23 B.C.)',to mention only a selection of the entries included.Modest as the Egyptian section of the Detroit Art Loan of I883may have been,it was the first such exhibition of Egyptian Artheld in the City.  \nThe Detroit Institutc of Arts of today,offspring of the DetroitMuseum of Art,and ultimately of the inspiration which con-ccived thc Art Loan,is a general and diversified art museumhousing collcctions of far ranging interest.As is the case withmany art 1museums in the United States,an attempt has beenmade since its inception to makc it,as far as possible,an all-inclusive scries of illustrations of the history of man's art andculture.While probably best known for its collcctions of Flemish,Dutch and American paintings,it has lived up to the promiseof the Detroit Art Loan in the high quality of the works of artincluded,if not in the diversity of exhibits.The Ancient Depart-  \nI.Seated figure ofa man.Painted limestone.Dynasty Five,2565-2420 B.C.The surface has been spoiled somewhat by the efflorescence of the lime-stone but the preservation otherwise is remarkably good.There is noinscription so the person depicted must renain unknown.Height,I5³inches.  \ntempts to represent the art of Ancient Egypt.It could hardly havcbeen otherwise,considering the state of knowledgc of the historyof Art.The casual observer still considers two thousand years ofPharaonic artistic production to have been essentially unchangingas 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