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Cranbrook Academy of Art Administration Records

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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

Saarinen Family Papers

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Identifier: 1990-08
Abstract Finnish architect, Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen was born August 20, 1873. In 1904 Saarinen married artist Minna Carolina Mathilde Louise “Loja” Gesellius (b. 1879). The Saarinen's daughter Eeva Lisa “Pipsan” was born in Helsingfors, Finland on 31 March 1905 and their son Eero was born in Kyrkslaett, Finland on 20 August 1910. In 1923 Eliel met the Detroit newspaper magnate George Gough Booth, who was to become his chief patron in America. At Booth’s invitation, Saarinen moved his practice to...
Dates: 1880 - 1989

Saarinen-Swanson Reunion Records

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Identifier: 2001-14
Abstract Eliel Saarinen, along with his wife Loja, son Eero, daughter Pipsan, and son-in-law J. Robert F. Swanson, founded a creative tradition at Cranbrook that endures to this day. The Saarinens' fame and design philosophies attracted many of the brightest talents in the architectural, design, and planning fields to study at Cranbrook or to work for their businesses --- known variously as Saarinen and Swanson; Saarinen and Saarinen; Saarinen, Swanson, and Saarinen; Swanson Associates; and Eero...
Dates: 1995 - 2001

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Aalto, Alvar, 1898-1976 2
Christ-Janer, Albert, 1910-1973 2
Cranbrook Academy of Art 2
Cranbrook Institute of Science 2
Grotell, Maija, 1899-1973 2
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Knoll, Florence, 1917-2019 2
Milles, Carl, 1875-1955 2
Paulsen, S. Glen (Serenus Glen) 2
Saarinen Swanson, Pipsan 2
Saarinen, Eero, 1910-1961 2
Sepeshy, Zoltan, 1898-1974 2
Swanson, Jons Robert Ferdinand 2
Allen, Maurice B. 1
Barker, Laurence (Laurence Addison), 1930- 1
Bauder, Lillian 1
Booth, Henry Scripps, 1897-1988 1
Coir, Mark 1
Concordia Senior College (Fort Wayne, Ind.) 1
Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 1
Cranbrook Art Museum 1
Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research. Cranbrook Archives 1
Cranbrook Foundation 1
Cranbrook Kingswood School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 1
Detroit Institute of Arts 1
Detroit News (Firm) 1
Dinkeloo, John G. (John Gerard), 1918-1981 1
Eames, Charles 1
Eero Saarinen & Associates 1
Ford Motor Company 1
Fredericks, Marshall M., 1908-1998 1
GM Technical Center 1
Girard, Alexander 1
Goldman, Jack M. 1
Hammarstrom, Olav 1
Hatt, Robert T. (Robert Torrens), 1902- 1
Hvitträsk (Museum) 1
Jefferson National Expansion Memorial (Saint Louis, Mo.) 1
Knodel, Gerhardt 1
Korab, Balthazar 1
Lawrence Technological University 1
Lorch, Emil, 1870-1963 1
Maroti, Geza 1
Marquis, Samuel S., 1866-1948 1
McMath, Robert R. (Robert Raynolds), 1891-1962 1
Milles, Olga Granner, 1874-1967 1
Minoru Yamasaki and Associates 1
Mitchell, Wallace, 1911-1977 1
Nowicki, M. S. 1
Öhquist, Johannes, 1861-1949 1
Rapson, Ralph, 1914-2008 1
Roche, Kevin, 1922-2019 1
Saarinen, Lillian Swann, 1912- 1
Saarinen, Loja 1
Schmidt, Julius, 1923-2017 1
Sibelius, Jean, 1865-1957 1
Sparre, Louis, 1863-1964 1
Strengell, Gustaf 1
Strengell, Marianne, 1909- 1
Suomi College 1
Swanson, Robert Saarinen 1
Thomas, Richard 1
Torre, Susana 1
Vettraino, Dominick 1
White, Lee A., 1886- 1
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 1
de Forest, Claude 1
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