Girl with the D Earring — artwork #10052 by Sydney G. James · Detroit, United States
graffiti mural portrait black-women milwaukee-junction vermeer-reinterpretation
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Sydney G. James, born in 1979 in Detroit, is an African-American painter and muralist who earned her BFA from the College for Creative Studies in 2001. After starting her career as an advertising art director in Detroit, she moved to Los Angeles in 2004 to work as a visual artist in film and television, earned a master's degree in secondary education from UCLA, and returned to her hometown in 2011…
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Added 20/04/2026
Monumental nine-story mural covering 8,000 square feet of the west wall of the Chroma building in Milwaukee Junction. Painted by Sydney G. James in September 2020, the piece reimagines Vermeer's 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' by replacing the pearl with a large Old English 'D' — the iconic Detroit Tigers emblem — and casting the artist's longtime friend Halima Cassells as the sitter. Commissioned by developer The Platform during the renovation of a century-old storage building, it has become Detroit's most recognizable contemporary image.
The artwork Fille à la boucle d'oreille D is of type graffiti. You can admire it in the city of Detroit in United States, more precisely here: 2937 E Grand Blvd, Detroit, MI 48202.
This graffiti is also tagged as: mural, portrait, black-women, milwaukee-junction, vermeer-reinterpretation.
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