Cranbrook Academy of Art

Organization

Staff Only

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Inspecting a Chair at CAA design workshop

Digital Image

Identifier: 202101_67_15_02

Dates: Digitized: 2022-10-06

Found in: Cranbrook Archives, Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research

Ralph Rapson Papers

Collection

Identifier: 2012-01

Abstract Ralph Rapson, born on September 13, 1914, in Alma, Michigan, won a scholarship to the University of Michigan's College of Architecture in 1935. Admitted to the Phi Kappa Phi Society in 1938, he was encouraged to apply for the George G. Booth Travelling Fellowship in Architecture. He did not receive the fellowship but his submission impressed Eliel Saarinen, who offered Rapson a scholarship to attend the Academy of Art, where he helped Saarinen on a planning project for the State Capitol...

Dates: 1935 - 1954

Found in: Cranbrook Archives, Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research / Ralph Rapson Papers

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