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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
Bernard “Tony” Rosenthal Papers
Collection
Identifier: 2000-07
Abstract
In 1939, Tony Rosenthal attended the Cranbrook Academy of Art to study sculpture with Carl Milles. There he met and became friends with Charles Eames, Florence Schust Knoll, Eero Saarinen, and others. After WWII, Rosenthal worked on commissions for several architectural firms and taught sculpture at UCLA. In 1960, he moved to New York City where he exhibited in galleries and received commissions to create outdoor sculptures in New York City, Honolulu, Ann Arbor, and other cities. In 1980,...
Dates:
1939 - 2000
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- Barker, Laurence (Laurence Addison), 1930- 1
- Booth, George G. (George Gough), 1864-1949 1
- Booth, Henry Scripps, 1897-1988 1
- Christ-Janer, Albert, 1910-1973 1
- Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 1
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- Detroit News (Firm) 1
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- Fredericks, Marshall M., 1908-1998 1
- Grotell, Maija, 1899-1973 1
- Hatt, Robert T. (Robert Torrens), 1902- 1
- Knoll, Florence, 1917-2019 1
- Korab, Balthazar 1
- Mitchell, Wallace, 1911-1977 1
- Paulsen, S. Glen (Serenus Glen) 1
- Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973 1
- Rosenthal, Tony, 1914-2009 1
- Saarinen, Eero, 1910-1961 1
- Saarinen, Eliel, 1873-1950 1
- Saarinen, Lillian Swann, 1912- 1
- Schmidt, Julius, 1923-2017 1
- Sepeshy, Zoltan, 1898-1974 1
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- Strengell, Marianne, 1909- 1
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