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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
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
Saarinen Family Papers
Collection
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
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- Bertoia, Harry 2
- Booth, George G. (George Gough), 1864-1949 2
- Booth, Henry Scripps, 1897-1988 2
- Christ-Janer, Albert, 1910-1973 2
- Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 2
- Cranbrook Institute of Science 2
- Eames, Charles 2
- Fredericks, Marshall M., 1908-1998 2
- GM Technical Center 2
- Grotell, Maija, 1899-1973 2
- Hatt, Robert T. (Robert Torrens), 1902- 2
- Milles, Carl, 1875-1955 2
- Paulsen, S. Glen (Serenus Glen) 2
- Saarinen Swanson, Pipsan 2
- Saarinen, Eero, 1910-1961 2
- Schmidt, Julius, 1923-2017 2
- Aalto, Alvar, 1898-1976 1
- Barker, Laurence (Laurence Addison), 1930- 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 Kingswood School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 1
- Detroit Institute of Arts 1
- Detroit News (Firm) 1
- Dinkeloo, John G. (John Gerard), 1918-1981 1
- Eero Saarinen & Associates 1
- Ford Motor Company 1
- Hammarstrom, Olav 1
- Hvitträsk (Museum) 1
- Jefferson National Expansion Memorial (Saint Louis, Mo.) 1
- Knoll Associates, Inc. 1
- Knoll, Florence, 1917-2019 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
- Öhquist, Johannes, 1861-1949 1
- Saarinen, Lillian Swann, 1912- 1
- Saarinen, Loja 1
- Sibelius, Jean, 1865-1957 1
- Slade, Roy 1
- Sparre, Louis, 1863-1964 1
- Strengell, Gustaf 1
- Strengell, Marianne, 1909- 1
- Suomi College 1
- Swanson, Jons Robert Ferdinand 1
- Thomas, Richard 1
- Vettraino, Dominick 1
- White, Lee A., 1886- 1 ∧ less
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