The Detroit Institute of Arts is located in Midtown Detroit, in the state of Michigan. The museum has one of the largest and most significant art collections in the United States with over 100 galleries. It covers 658,000 square feet. It is huge. The museum collection is regarded as among the top six museums in the United States. The # 1 highlight is murals from Diego Rivera.
The collection of American art is one of the most impressive anywhere. Works by American artists began to be collected immediately following the museum's founding in 1883. The collection includes American artists: John James Audubon, George Bellows, George Caleb Bingham, Alexander Calder, Mary Cassatt, Dale Chihuly, Frederic Edwin Church, Thomas Cole, John Singleton Copley, Robert Colescott, Leon Dabo, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, Thomas Eakins, Childe Hassam, Robert Henri, Winslow Homer, George Inness, Martin Lewis, Georgia O'Keeffe, Charles Willson Peale, Rembrandt Peale, Tom Phardel, Duncan Phyfe, Hiram Powers, Sharon Que, Frederic Remington, Paul Revere, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, John Singer Sargent, John French Sloan, Tony Smith, Marylyn Dintenfass, Merton Simpson, Gilbert Stuart, Yves Tanguy, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Andy Warhol, William T. Williams, Anne Wilson, Andrew Wyeth, and James McNeill Whistler.