Cranbrook Academy of Art
Organization
Found in 168 Collections and/or Records:
Contracts; Cranbrook employment, housing, 1956
File — Box 2, Folder: 24
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Contains Isaacs’ early designs and promotional papers for Ken Isaacs Ltd, and records related to his temporally overlapping projects of building Microhouses at Groveland, Illinois, his tenure as contributing editor for Popular Science magazine (1967-1972), and the creation of his first book, Culture Breakers, Alternatives & Other Numbers (1970). The Groveland Subseries includes some press correspondence. The Popular Science Subseries includes article drafts and published copies, as well...
Dates:
Other: 1956
Doris Corbett Papers
Collection
Identifier: 2010-08
Abstract
Doris Corbett was a history professor and well-known singer and ballad composer, teaching and performing throughout the United States and Canada. While pursuing her doctorate in history, Ms. Corbett’s research brought her to Cranbrook to study the Arts & Crafts movement, Ellen Scripps Booth, and Nellie Beveridge Gray. The bulk of the collection consists of Ms. Corbett’s research of Ellen Scripps Booth and Nellie Beveridge Gray. Of particular note are the transcripts of the oral histories...
Dates:
Circa 1873-1989
Correspondence, 1938 - 1939-08
File — Box 1, Folder: 2
Collection Scope
From the Collection:
This collection has two main components: Ben Baldwin’s correspondence, written almost exclusively to Harry Weese, and work for his book, An Autobiography in Design. All the stages of authorship, from proposal to finished product are represented, including efforts made by his niece Shirley Young Weese to see the book to publication. Series I: Personal (1938-2000) contains letters by Ben Baldwin to Harry Weese, chiefly from 1939-1940, just after they left Cranbrook. They reflect...
Dates:
Other: 1938 - 1939-08
Correspondence, 1948 - 1959
File — Box 3, Folder: 1
Collection Scope
From the Collection:
The collection is arranged in five series: SERIES I: Cranbrook Academy of Art (CAA) (1946-1978) deals with Thomas’s role as head of the Art Academy Metalsmithing Department and as faculty member, and is arranged topically, then chronologically. Faculty meeting minutes, interspersed with faculty-related communications, are chronologically arranged and cover the period of Zoltan Sepeshy’s retirement and the search for a new Art Academy director. Items on the Metalsmithing Dept....
Dates:
1948 - 1959
Correspondence, 1960 - 1969
File — Box 3, Folder: 2
Collection Scope
From the Collection:
The collection is arranged in five series: SERIES I: Cranbrook Academy of Art (CAA) (1946-1978) deals with Thomas’s role as head of the Art Academy Metalsmithing Department and as faculty member, and is arranged topically, then chronologically. Faculty meeting minutes, interspersed with faculty-related communications, are chronologically arranged and cover the period of Zoltan Sepeshy’s retirement and the search for a new Art Academy director. Items on the Metalsmithing Dept....
Dates:
1960 - 1969
Correspondence, Charles P. Wermuth & Son, 1928 - 1942
File — Box 17, Folder: 4
Collection Scope
From the Collection:
Series I. Administrative (1927-1973): Included here is correspondence (both outgoing and incoming) from George G. Booth (chairman of the Foundation from 1927-1949), from Executive Directors, Harry S. Booth and Edward Lerchen, and with the Trustees. Also included are the minutes of the meetings of the Trustees, as well as correspondence regarding various members of the Foundation staff, including the Secretary and the educational consultant. Subseries 4: Office Administration has been...
Dates:
1928 - 1942
Correspondence, Cranbrook internal, 1956 - 1958
File — Box 2, Folder: 48
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Contains Isaacs’ early designs and promotional papers for Ken Isaacs Ltd, and records related to his temporally overlapping projects of building Microhouses at Groveland, Illinois, his tenure as contributing editor for Popular Science magazine (1967-1972), and the creation of his first book, Culture Breakers, Alternatives & Other Numbers (1970). The Groveland Subseries includes some press correspondence. The Popular Science Subseries includes article drafts and published copies, as well...
Dates:
Other: 1956 - 1958
Correspondence-General , undated
File — Box 2, Folder: 4
Collection Scope
From the Collection:
This collection has two main components: Ben Baldwin’s correspondence, written almost exclusively to Harry Weese, and work for his book, An Autobiography in Design. All the stages of authorship, from proposal to finished product are represented, including efforts made by his niece Shirley Young Weese to see the book to publication. Series I: Personal (1938-2000) contains letters by Ben Baldwin to Harry Weese, chiefly from 1939-1940, just after they left Cranbrook. They reflect...
Dates:
Other: undated
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 Academy of Art Assistant to the President: Bob Yares Records
Collection
Identifier: 2012-06
Abstract
Higher education administrator Bob Yares (1944-2019) worked at Cranbrook Academy of Art from 1977 to 2009, first as assistant to Academy President Roy Slade, and later in other titles, always working with Academy personel, students and events.
The Bob Yares Records contain planning and communications papers related to events and other Academy initiatives. With degrees in art and education, Yares was staff liasion for the Academy students' Studio Council and a member of the Design Michigan...
Dates:
1970 - 2005