Arts: In Detroit

An angel and a Virgin have gone to Detroit to live. Created by the chaste, cloistered brush of Fra Angelico in the 15th Century, they have come down the years unblemished, staying long in England and more lately in Manhattan. Their two panels form an "Annunciation" that is unquestionably the finest of Fra Angelico's work to be found in the U. S. today. Their former owner, Carl W. Hamilton, received a quarter of a million for them both from Edsel Ford, who, sailing for Europe just then, left them hanging in public for all Detroit to see.

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