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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
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
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
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- Saarinen, Eero, 1910-1961 2
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- Sepeshy, Zoltan, 1898-1974 2
- Strengell, Marianne, 1909- 2
- Thomas, Richard 2
- University of Michigan 2
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- Aalto, Alvar, 1898-1976 1
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- Barker, Laurence (Laurence Addison), 1930- 1
- Booth, Henry Scripps, 1897-1988 1
- Breuer, Marcel, 1902-1981 1
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- Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969 1
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- Institute of Design (Chicago, Ill.) 1
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- Moholy-Nagy, László, 1895-1946 1
- Nowicki, M. S. 1
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- Rapson, Ralph, 1914-2008 1
- Roche, Kevin, 1922-2019 1
- Saarinen, Lillian Swann, 1912- 1
- Schmidt, Julius, 1923-2017 1
- Slade, Roy 1
- University of Minnesota 1
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