Cranbrook School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.)
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Cranbrook Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2020-03
Abstract
Cranbrook history dates back to 1904 when George and Ellen Booth purchased land in Bloomfield Hills, MI for their home. The next five decades saw the majority of this land transformed into an educational, artistic, and scientific community. In the early 1970s, a major reorganzition created the Cranbrook Educational Community. More than a century later, in 2021, this Community comprises five program areas: Cranbrook Schools, Cranbrook Art Academy, Cranbrook Art Museum, Cranbrook Institute of...
Dates:
circa 1830-; Majority of material found within 1931 - 1970
Arthur Nevill Kirk Papers
Collection — Container: Box 1
Identifier: 1985-08
Abstract
Arthur Nevill Kirk was born on July 20, 1881, in Lewes, Sussex, England. He taught as a metalcraft instructor before George Gough Booth persuaded him to move to the United States. Kirk arrived in September 1927 and began designing ecclesiastical pieces for Christ Church Cranbrook, teaching at Cranbrook School (1927-1929), and two years later directing the the metals shop of the Academy of Art and subsequently the Silver Department. When economic depression caused the art shops at the...
Dates:
1873 - 2015