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Ralph Harman and Mary Batterman Booth Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: 2018-03
Abstract
Ralph Harman Booth was an art connoisseur, philanthropist, newspaper publisher, co-founder of Booth Newspapers, Inc., with his elder brother, George Gough Booth, and United States Minister to Denmark. An art collector and patron, he was the last President of the Detroit Museum of Art, the founding President of the Detroit Arts Commission, and served as the museum's Chief Executive Officer until the new museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts, opened on Woodward Avenue in October 1927. Booth...
Dates:
1900 - 1986
Wallace MacMahon Mitchell Papers
Collection
Identifier: 1990-21
Abstract
Wallace McMahon Mitchell was born on October 9, 1911 in Detroit, Michigan to Arthur Z. and Edith McMahon Mitchell. He was a respected painter, textile designer, geometric abstractionist, and a Cranbrook Academy of Art (CAA) graduate student (’35). He later served at the Academy as a painting, and arts and crafts instructor; registrar; director; and then president until his death in 1977. The collection contains the papers of Mitchell and his family during his years at Cranbrook. Included are...
Dates:
1934 - 1980
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- Hatt, Robert T. (Robert Torrens), 1902- 1
- Kimball, Margueritte Eleanor, 1906-1995 1
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- Michaels, Glen, 1927- 1
- Milles, Carl, 1875-1955 1
- Mitchell, Wallace, 1911-1977 1
- Roche, Kevin, 1922-2019 1
- Saarinen, Eero, 1910-1961 1
- Saarinen, Lillian Swann, 1912- 1
- Sepeshy, Zoltan, 1898-1974 1
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