Background
Darr, Alan Phipps was born on September 30, 1948 in Kankakee, Illinois, United States. Son of Milton Freeman, Junior and Margaret (Phipps) Darr.
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The collection of post-antique Italian sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts is considered among the three finest and most comprehensive outside Europe; however, this large and distinguished collection, whose formation began a century ago, has never been published in its entirety as a museum catalogue. Ranging from early medieval, pre-Romanesque stone carvings of the eighth and ninth centuries to works created more than a millennium later, the collection numbers over 350 pieces of Italian sculpture in wood, stone, terracotta, stucco, porcelain and bronze. More than half of the collection consists of sculpture from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries (or the Early, High and Late Italian Renaissance), and approximately one-fifth dates from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries (roughly, Italian Gothic sculpture). Although the remainder is more or less equally balanced in number between the eighth to the twelfth centuries, and those pieces from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries, the latter group of Italian baroque to nineteenth-century sculpture contains some of the most important and most recently acquired Italian works of art in the collection.
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Darr, Alan Phipps was born on September 30, 1948 in Kankakee, Illinois, United States. Son of Milton Freeman, Junior and Margaret (Phipps) Darr.
Bachelor, Northwestern University, 1970. Master of Arts, Institute Fine Arts, New York University, 1975. Doctor of Philosophy in Art History, 1980.
Graduate intern Metropolitan Museum Art, New York City, 1976. Instructor New York University, 1976. Assistant curator Detroit Institute Arts, 1978—1980, associate curator, 1980—1981, curator in charge, European sculpture and decorative arts, since 1981, Walter B. Ford II Family curator European sculpture and decorative arts, since 1997.
Postdoctoral fellow Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti, Florence, 1988—1989. Adjunct professor Wayne State University, Detroit, since 1982. Paul Mellon visiting senior scholar Center Advanced Study in Visual Arts, National Gallery, Washington, 1994.
Head european paintings, sculptures & decorative arts department, since 2009.
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Fellow, 1983.
Married Mollie Hayden Fletcher, June 28, 1980. Children: Owen, Alexander.