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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
Ralph Rapson Papers
Collection
Identifier: 2012-01
Abstract
Ralph Rapson, born on September 13, 1914, in Alma, Michigan, won a scholarship to the University of Michigan's College of Architecture in 1935. Admitted to the Phi Kappa Phi Society in 1938, he was encouraged to apply for the George G. Booth Travelling Fellowship in Architecture. He did not receive the fellowship but his submission impressed Eliel Saarinen, who offered Rapson a scholarship to attend the Academy of Art, where he helped Saarinen on a planning project for the State Capitol...
Dates:
1935 - 1954
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
S. Glen Paulsen Papers
Collection
Identifier: 1991-25
Abstract
Serenus Glen Paulsen attended the University of Illinois, College of Fine and Applied Art from 1938 to 1942, then spent three years in the military under commanding officer, Marshall Fredericks (a sculptor). After the war, he received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania, School of Fine Arts, followed by a Master of Architecture and City Planning from the Royal Academy of Arts, Stockholm, Sweden. Paulsen worked for several firms, including Eero Saarinen and...
Dates:
1940 - 1990
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- Saarinen, Eero, 1910-1961 3
- Saarinen, Eliel, 1873-1950 3
- Bertoia, Harry 2
- Booth, George G. (George Gough), 1864-1949 2
- Booth, Henry Scripps, 1897-1988 2
- Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 2
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- Fredericks, Marshall M., 1908-1998 2
- Hatt, Robert T. (Robert Torrens), 1902- 2
- Knoll Associates, Inc. 2
- Knoll, Florence, 1917-2019 2
- Milles, Carl, 1875-1955 2
- Paulsen, S. Glen (Serenus Glen) 2
- Schmidt, Julius, 1923-2017 2
- Sepeshy, Zoltan, 1898-1974 2
- Slade, Roy 2
- Aalto, Alvar, 1898-1976 1
- Barker, Laurence (Laurence Addison), 1930- 1
- Breuer, Marcel, 1902-1981 1
- Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976 1
- Christ-Janer, Albert, 1910-1973 1
- Concordia Senior College (Fort Wayne, Ind.) 1
- Cranbrook Academy of Art. Architecture Studio 1
- Cranbrook Architectural Office 1
- Cranbrook Art Museum 1
- Cranbrook Foundation 1
- Cranbrook Institute of Science 1
- Detroit News (Firm) 1
- Dow, Alden B., 1904-1983 1
- Eames, Ray 1
- Eero Saarinen & Associates 1
- Ford Motor Company 1
- Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-1983 1
- GM Technical Center 1
- Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969 1
- Grotell, Maija, 1899-1973 1
- Hammarstrom, Olav 1
- Hudnut, Joseph, 1886-1968 1
- Institute of Design (Chicago, Ill.) 1
- Jefferson National Expansion Memorial (Saint Louis, Mo.) 1
- Johnson, Philip, 1906-2005 1
- Keck, George Fred, 1895-1980 1
- Knoll, Hans, 1914-1955 1
- Korab, Balthazar 1
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1
- Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969 1
- Minoru Yamasaki and Associates 1
- Mitchell, Wallace, 1911-1977 1
- Moholy-Nagy, László, 1895-1946 1
- Nowicki, M. S. 1
- Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973 1
- Rapson, Ralph, 1914-2008 1
- Rosenthal, Tony, 1914-2009 1
- Saarinen Swanson, Pipsan 1
- Saarinen, Lillian Swann, 1912- 1
- Strengell, Marianne, 1909- 1
- Thomas, Richard 1
- University of Minnesota 1
- Vettraino, Dominick 1
- Weese, Harry, 1915-1998 1
- White, Lee A., 1886- 1
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