Cranbrook Academy of Art

Organization

Staff Only

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Ruth Ingvarsson Papers

Collection

Identifier: 1997-06

Abstract In 1929, Ingvarsson came to Cranbrook to work as a weaver at Studio Loja Saarinen. In 1932, she returned to Sweden with Maja Andersson Wirde to attend a course for weaving instructors at Handarbetets Vänner (The Friends of Handicraft). She returned to work for Studio Loja Saarinen in 1934, and again in 1941. Ingvarsson was a weaving instructor in her private studio in Highland Park (1935-1937) and in Detroit (1937-1951). During the summers of 1946, 1948, and 1951, she returned to Cranbrook...

Dates: 1932 - 1933

Found in: Cranbrook Archives, Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research / Ruth Ingvarsson Papers

J. Robert F. and Pipsan Saarinen Swanson Papers

Collection

Identifier: 1990-01

Abstract Jons Robert (Bob) Ferdinand Swanson (1900-1981) graduated from the University of Michigan School of Architecture in 1924, where he had and become friends with Henry Scripps Booth. In 1924, they established the architectural firm, Swanson and Booth. In 1927, the partnership dissolved and Bob established his own practice. Eva Lisa (Pipsan) Saarinen (1905-1979), daughter of Eliel and Loja Saarinen, studied weaving, ceramics, and fabric design at University of Helskini. She married Bob in 1926...

Dates: 1900 - 1983

Found in: Cranbrook Archives, Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research / J. Robert F. and Pipsan Saarinen Swanson Papers

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