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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
Saarinen-Swanson Reunion Records
Collection
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 1
- Allen, Maurice B. 1
- Barker, Laurence (Laurence Addison), 1930- 1
- Bauder, Lillian 1
- Booth, Henry Scripps, 1897-1988 1
- Christ-Janer, Albert, 1910-1973 1
- Coir, Mark 1
- Concordia Senior College (Fort Wayne, Ind.) 1
- Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 1
- Cranbrook Academy of Art 1
- Cranbrook Art Museum 1
- Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research. Cranbrook Archives 1
- Cranbrook Foundation 1
- Cranbrook Institute of Science 1
- Detroit Institute of Arts 1
- Detroit News (Firm) 1
- Eames, Charles 1
- Eero Saarinen & Associates 1
- Ford Motor Company 1
- Fredericks, Marshall M., 1908-1998 1
- Girard, Alexander 1
- Goldman, Jack M. 1
- Grotell, Maija, 1899-1973 1
- Hammarstrom, Olav 1
- Hatt, Robert T. (Robert Torrens), 1902- 1
- Knodel, Gerhardt 1
- Knoll, Florence, 1917-2019 1
- Korab, Balthazar 1
- Lawrence Technological University 1
- Milles, Carl, 1875-1955 1
- Minoru Yamasaki and Associates 1
- Mitchell, Wallace, 1911-1977 1
- Nowicki, M. S. 1
- Rapson, Ralph, 1914-2008 1
- Roche, Kevin, 1922-2019 1
- Saarinen Swanson, Pipsan 1
- Saarinen, Eero, 1910-1961 1
- Schmidt, Julius, 1923-2017 1
- Sepeshy, Zoltan, 1898-1974 1
- Strengell, Marianne, 1909- 1
- Swanson, Jons Robert Ferdinand 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
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