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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 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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- Barker, Laurence (Laurence Addison), 1930- 1
- Booth, Henry Scripps, 1897-1988 1
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- Dinkeloo, John G. (John Gerard), 1918-1981 1
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- Fredericks, Marshall M., 1908-1998 1
- GM Technical Center 1
- Hatt, Robert T. (Robert Torrens), 1902- 1
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- Marquis, Samuel S., 1866-1948 1
- McMath, Robert R. (Robert Raynolds), 1891-1962 1
- Milles, Olga Granner, 1874-1967 1
- Mitchell, Wallace, 1911-1977 1
- Öhquist, Johannes, 1861-1949 1
- Paulsen, S. Glen (Serenus Glen) 1
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- Saarinen, Eero, 1910-1961 1
- Saarinen, Lillian Swann, 1912- 1
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- Schmidt, Julius, 1923-2017 1
- Sibelius, Jean, 1865-1957 1
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- Strengell, Gustaf 1
- Strengell, Marianne, 1909- 1
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