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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
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
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- Baldwin, Benjamin, 1913-1993 1
- Barker, Laurence (Laurence Addison), 1930- 1
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- Booth, George G. (George Gough), 1864-1949 1
- Christ-Janer, Albert, 1910-1973 1
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- Grotell, Maija, 1899-1973 1
- Hatt, Robert T. (Robert Torrens), 1902- 1
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- Michigan State University 1
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- Oakland Community College 1
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- Schmidt, Julius, 1923-2017 1
- Sepeshy, Zoltan, 1898-1974 1
- Sibelius, Jean, 1865-1957 1
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