Detroit Institute of Arts
Organization
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
George Gough Booth Papers
Collection
Identifier: 1981-01
Abstract
The collection documents the life and work of George Gough Booth, a renowned advocate of the arts, and a great philanthropist whose crowning achievement was the establishment of Cranbrook Educational Community. He was also one of the nation's leading newspapermen in the first half of this century. It includes biographical materials including legal documents, travel itineraries, talks and writings, and the financial and business records of the Cranbrook Press. It documents his working life...
Dates:
1864 - 1949
Cranbrook Academy of Art Administration Records
Collection
Identifier: 1981-09
Abstract
In 1927 George G. Booth established the Cranbrook Academy of Art as an educational environment where students could come and learn from master artists in residence. The Academy functioned as a department under the Cranbrook Foundation and included painting, architecture, sculpture, ceramics and decorative design. The first Academy students were taken in early 1930. Eliel Saarinen was the first President (1932-1946). In 1942, with the opening of the Museum and Library, the Academy became an...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1942 - 1973
Cranbrook Foundation Office Records
Collection
Identifier: 1981-05
Abstract
The Cranbrook Foundation was established on November 28, 1927, by George Gough Booth and Ellen Scripps Booth. It was a trust and administrative entity to endow and support the six institutions that George and Ellen had founded: Brookside School Cranbrook, Christ Church Cranbrook, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Cranbrook Institute of Science, Cranbrook School, and Kingswood School Cranbrook. It's initial mission was, "to add to and strengthen the educational and cultural facilities within the...
Dates:
1926 - 1973
F. Shirley Prouty Research Collection on Johannes Kirchmayer
Collection
Identifier: 2018-04
Abstract
F. Shirley Prouty is the great great-niece of Johannes Kirchmayer. She spent many years researching his life, family history, and artworks. Her research is published in the book Johannes Kirchmayer, 1860-1930: master carver from Germany's passion play village to America's finest sanctuaries. This collection holds the research files for this publication. Johannes Kirchmayer was born in Oberammergau, Bavaria, in 1860 and emigrated to the United States in 1880. He work is predominantly...
Dates:
1873 - 2015; Majority of material found within 1994 - 2015
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- Art -- Study and teaching 2
- Bloomfield Hills (Mich.) 2
- Church architecture 2
- Education 2
- Glass painting and staining 2
- Mural painting and decoration -- 20th century 2
- Science museums 2
- Sculpture 2
- Architecture, Domestic 1
- Art auctions 1
- Bookbinding 1
- Carillons 1
- Charles Scribners Sons Building (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Cranbrook (Kent, England) 1
- Design 1
- Exhibitions 1
- Genealogy 1
- Industrial design 1
- James J. Hill House (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1
- Metalwork 1
- Minerals 1
- Museums 1
- Newspapers -- Ownership 1
- Oberammergau (Germany) 1
- Painting 1
- Photographs 1
- Prohibition 1
- Religion 1
- Textile fabrics 1
- Textiles 1
- Weaving 1
- Women -- Suffrage 1
- Wood-carving 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1 ∧ less
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