Arts & Entertainment
'Reading the Story of Oenone' Has Ties to Greek Mythology, Titanic Tragedy
Learn more about the artwork on display through September outside the Huntington Woods Public Library as part of the Detroit Institute of Arts' annual Inside|Out program.
A reproduction of "Reading the Story of Oenone" by Francis Davis Millet is on display through September outside the Huntington Woods Public Library.
It is one of five artworks from the Detroit Institute of Arts on display this summer throughout Huntington Woods as part of the fourth annual Inside|Out program.
"This picture of four young ladies enjoying a read of a tragic love story is something of an excuse for the artist to demonstrate detailed knowledge of classical garb, a skill for which he was renowned," according to the DIA. "Here he favors the soft greens and off-reds that were so popular in artistic decor of the time."
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Oenone was a nymph of Greek mythology whose husband Paris left her for Helen of Troy and later inspired Alfred Tennyson's poem by the same name.
Davis Millet, who preferred the English rather than French pronunciation of his last name, according to chicagonow.com, was an American artist who painted "Reading the Story of Oenone" in 1883 and led a life of adventure before he died aboard the Titanic in 1912.
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