Dominique De Menil, Artwork Collector

Dominique De Menil, Artwork Collector

Dominique de Menil and her husband collected many pieces of artwork throughout their lives, and managed to put this collection to use in helping others. They started the "The Image of the Black in Western Art" research project, which catalogues and studies African-Americans in art, and is still going on today at Harvard University. They also helped create the non-denominational Rothko Chapel, and included art dedicated to Martin Luther King Jr. at the very front of the building. They then went on to host artistic exhibitions that promoted human and civil rights including "The De Luxe Show," a 1971 exhibition of contemporary art held in Houston's Fifth Ward, a historically African-American neighborhood. This was one of the first racially-integrated art shows in the United States. Dominique herself would later go on to establish the Carter-Menil Human Rights Foundation, which would give prizes to organizations devoted to human rights.

UN Photographs Collection

Between 1948-2000

Dominique de Menill

Source: Dominique de Menil. (2012, August 20). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved October 16, 2012, from http://bit.ly/V3EHhi

Link: University of Houston Digital Library

University of Houston

University of Houston

UN Photographs Collection

Medium: Photograph

English

Figures

Women

Historic