Plymouth DIA Inside|Out Tour Preview

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"Leisure Hours" by John Everett Millais at E. G. Nick's 500 Forest Ave

Leisure HoursDate: 1864Medium: Oil on canvasDimensions: 35 x 46 1/2Scene depicts upper-class English children during Victorian times. Leisure Hours is an 1864 oil painting by the English artist John Everett Millais. It is located at the Detroit Institute of Arts, and is sometimes compared to The Nut Gatherers by William-Adolphe Bouguereau. The subjects of the painting are Anne and Marion Pender, children of en:John Pender. The two goldfish are trapped in the fishbowl, drawing parallels to the two girls who are trapped in ornate dresses and in their house. (Information courtesty of https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Everett_Millais_Leisure_Hours.JPG)Is fishbowl for children's amusement, or is it a metaphor for us looking at them as if in a fishbowl?Show off your creative side by taking an ART Selfie and posting it on Facebook or Instagram! tag @Plymouth PARC on Instagram and PARC-Plymouth Arts & Recreation Complex on Facebook. Include the hashtag #InsideOutPlymouth! For more information on upcoming Inside|Out activites visit www.plymouthparc.com

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"Selene and Endymion" by Nicolas Poussin at Bella Mia Dressed-Up

Selene and Endymion by Nicolas PoussinDate: c. 1630Medium: Oil on canvasDimensions: 48 x 66 1/2 inSelene and Endymion (Poussin 1635) Selene, goddess of the moon, and the handsome mortal, Endymion, fall in love. To keep him forever young, he is cast into eternal sleep. Show off your creative side by taking an ART Selfie and posting it on Facebook or Instagram! tag @Plymouth PARC on Instagram and PARC-Plymouth Arts & Recreation Complex on Facebook. Include the hashtag #InsideOutPlymouth! For more information on upcoming Inside|Out activites visit www.plymouthparc.com

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"Cafe Scene in Paris" by Henri Gervex at The Sardine Room

Cafe Scene in ParisDate: 1877Medium: Oil on canvasDimensions: 39 5/8 x 53 1/2 in Paris cafes were especially popular with young artists and writers in the 1800's. Man lighting pipe is believed to be the artist. Show off your creative side by taking an ART Selfie and posting it on Facebook or Instagram! tag @Plymouth PARC on Instagram and PARC-Plymouth Arts & Recreation Complex on Facebook. Include the hashtag #InsideOutPlymouth! For more information on upcoming Inside|Out activites visit www.plymouthparc.com

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Portrait 0f Postman Roulin by Vincent van Gogh at "Westborn Market"

Portait of Postman Roulinby Vincent Willem van Gogh (Dutch 1853-1990)Date: 1888Medium: Oil on canvasDimensions: 25 1/4 x 18 7/8 in Van Gogh and Roulin were good friends and drinking buddies. Roulin and his family were painted several times by van Gogh. Show off your creative side by taking an ART Selfie and posting it on Facebook or Instagram! tag @Plymouth PARC on Instagram and PARC-Plymouth Arts & Recreation Complex on Facebook. Include the hashtag #InsideOutPlymouth! For more information on upcoming Inside|Out activites visit www.plymouthparc.com

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"Hard Ball III" by Robert Moskowitz at the Penn Theatre

Hard Ball III (Moskowitz 1993)Although the details in painting are minimal, the flatness and scale give the ball a sense of movement. Moskowitz sought imagery between abstract and representation, between reality and dream.Show off your creative side by taking an ART Selfie and posting it on Facebook or Instagram! tag @Plymouth PARC on Instagram and PARC-Plymouth Arts & Recreation Complex on Facebook. Include the hashtag #InsideOutPlymouth! For more information on upcoming Inside|Out activites visit www.plymouthparc.com

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"Girl and Laurel" by Winslow Holmer at the Plymouth District Library

Girl and Laurelby Winslow Homer (American 1836-1910)Date: 1879Medium: Oil on canvasDimensions: 22 5/8 x 15 3/4 in. Homer often painted scenes of rural girls despite scathing reviews by critics. The owner of this property in Massachusetts cut down the laurel after Homer refused to paint his portrait. Show off your creative side by taking an ART Selfie and posting it on Facebook or Instagram! tag @Plymouth PARC on Instagram and PARC-Plymouth Arts & Recreation Complex on Facebook. Include the hashtag #InsideOutPlymouth! For more information on upcoming Inside|Out activites visit www.plymouthparc.com

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"A Study For Birds" by Albert Moore at the Plymouth Historical Museum

Study for "Birds" Artist: Albert Moore (1841-1893)Date: 1878Medium: Oil and pencil on two joined canvasesDimensions Framed: 66 5/16 x31 3/8 x3 1/8 in. Image is simply intended to be pretty, with no obvious deeper meaning. Artist known for painting women in flowing fabrics. Show off your creative side by taking an ART Selfie and posting it on Facebook or Instagram! tag @Plymouth PARC on Instagram and PARC-Plymouth Arts & Recreation Complex on Facebook. Include the hashtag #InsideOutPlymouth! For more information on upcoming Inside|Out activites visit www.plymouthparc.com

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Plymouth Arts and Recreation Complex (PARC)

Portrait of a Collagist Artist: Benny Andrews Self-portrait of artist. One of ten children of sharecropper's family and first to graduate high school, Andrews wanted his art to be accessible to all. Show off your creative side by taking an ART Selfie and posting it on Facebook or Instagram! tag @Plymouth PARC on Instagram and PARC-Plymouth Arts & Recreation Complex on Facebook. Include the hashtag #InsideOutPlymouth! For more information on upcoming Inside|Out activites visit www.plymouthparc.com

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Indian Summer by Jasper Francis Cropsey at PARC (activities entrance)

Indian Summer Jasper Francis Cropsey 1863-1900Date: 1866Medium: Oil on canvasDimensions: 53 x 95 in. Location is New York's Hudson River Valley. Tourist steamer in background represents thousands who flocked to visit wilderness in the calm following the Civil War. Show off your creative side by taking an ART Selfie and posting it on Facebook or Instagram! tag @Plymouth PARC on Instagram and PARC-Plymouth Arts & Recreation Complex on Facebook. Include the hashtag #InsideOutPlymouth! For more information on upcoming Inside|Out activites visit www.plymouthparc.com

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"Warrior with Two Pages" by Peter Paul Rubens at Hermanns Olde Town Grille 195 W. Liberty

Warrior with Two Pages (Rubens 1615) Rubens was a prolific artist, who employed many apprentices. This work shows evidence of being done by multiple hands. Show off your creative side by taking an ART Selfie and posting it on Facebook or Instagram! tag @Plymouth PARC on Instagram and PARC-Plymouth Arts & Recreation Complex on Facebook. Include the hashtag #InsideOutPlymouth! For more information on upcoming Inside|Out activites visit www.plymouthparc.com

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"The Window" by Henry Matisse at the Plymouth Community Arts Council

The Window by Henry Matisse (1869-1954)Date: 1916Medium: Oil on canvasDimensions: 57 1/2 x 46 in. The first Matisse painting in a U.S. museum. Matisse used vibrant colors and flattened surfaces, which balanced his desire to reproduce the world accurately in a two-dimensional painting. Show off your creative side by taking an ART Selfie and posting it on Facebook or Instagram! tag @Plymouth PARC on Instagram and PARC-Plymouth Arts & Recreation Complex on Facebook. Include the hashtag #InsideOutPlymouth!

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The Art of the Negro: Artists (A Study) by Hale Woodruff at the Plymouth Community Arts Council

The Art of the Negro: Artists (A Study) Artist: Hale Woodruff 1900 - 1980Date: 1950/1951Medium: Oil on canvasDimensions: 23 x 21 in.Woodruff's style was greatly influenced by training with Diego Rivera. He sought to express his cultural heritage in abstract painting; this is a study for a mural featuring images of important black Americans.Show off your creative side by taking an ART Selfie and posting it on Facebook or Instagram!Take a photo of yourself, your friends, your family memberswith one of the Inside|Out reproductions, post it publicly and include the hashtag #InsideOutPlymouth!Selected selfies will be featured on the DIA Inside|Out Plymouth Facebook page. Contest winner and prize awarded in July! Find more details at www.plymouthparc.com