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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
Cranbrook Foundation Office Records
Collection
Identifier: 1981-05
Abstract
The Cranbrook Foundation was established on November 28, 1927, by George Gough Booth and Ellen Scripps Booth. It was a trust and administrative entity to endow and support the six institutions that George and Ellen had founded: Brookside School Cranbrook, Christ Church Cranbrook, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Cranbrook Institute of Science, Cranbrook School, and Kingswood School Cranbrook. It's initial mission was, "to add to and strengthen the educational and cultural facilities within the...
Dates:
1926 - 1973
Jack Keijo Steele Papers
Collection
Identifier: 2012-09
Abstract
Steele attended the Cranbrook Academy of Art, where he studied painting with Zoltan Sepeshy, starting in the fall of 1940. In 1942, he received his first award as a mural artist as part of the Cranbrook team in the Rome Collaborative competition. Not long after, he left Cranbrook to join the war effort and was selected by the War Department Advisory Committee to be a “soldier artist” and document his experience. Steele traveled to Australia and the South Pacific, filling books with sketches...
Dates:
1941 - 2003
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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- Bertoia, Harry 3
- Booth, George G. (George Gough), 1864-1949 3
- Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 3
- Detroit Institute of Arts 3
- Hatt, Robert T. (Robert Torrens), 1902- 3
- Milles, Carl, 1875-1955 3
- Mitchell, Wallace, 1911-1977 3
- Sepeshy, Zoltan, 1898-1974 3
- Booth, Henry Scripps, 1897-1988 2
- Cranbrook Art Museum 2
- Cranbrook Foundation 2
- Cranbrook Institute of Science 2
- Eames, Charles 2
- Ford Motor Company 2
- Fredericks, Marshall M., 1908-1998 2
- Grotell, Maija, 1899-1973 2
- Paulsen, S. Glen (Serenus Glen) 2
- Saarinen, Eero, 1910-1961 2
- Saarinen, Eliel, 1873-1950 2
- Saarinen, Lillian Swann, 1912- 2
- Strengell, Marianne, 1909- 2
- Thomas, Richard 2
- Vettraino, Dominick 2
- Baldwin, Benjamin, 1913-1993 1
- Barbour, William T. 1
- Barker, Laurence (Laurence Addison), 1930- 1
- Booth, Carolyn Farr 1
- Booth, Ellen Warren Scripps, 1863-1948 1
- Booth, James Scripps, 1888-1954 1
- Booth, Ralph H. 1
- Booth, Stephen Farr 1
- Brookside School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 1
- Buckberrough, John 1
- Burrowes, Marcus R. 1
- Christ Church Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 1
- Christ-Janer, Albert, 1910-1973 1
- Cranbrook House & Gardens (Organization) 1
- Cranbrook Kingswood School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 1
- Cranbrook Press 1
- Cranbrook School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 1
- Croze, Harvey 1
- Detroit News (Firm) 1
- Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts 1
- Eames, Ray 1
- Frayer, William Alley 1
- Girard, Alexander 1
- Hammarstrom, Olav 1
- Hulbert, Harold S. (Harold Stacey), 1887-1949 1
- Institute for Advanced Pastoral Studies 1
- Institute of Design (Chicago, Ill.) 1
- Irving & Casson 1
- Kimball, Margueritte Eleanor, 1906-1995 1
- Kirchmayer, Johannes, 1860-1930 1
- Kirk, Arthur Nevill 1
- Knodel, Gerhardt 1
- Lorch, Emil, 1870-1963 1
- Maroti, Geza 1
- Marquis, Samuel S., 1866-1948 1
- McEwen, Katherine 1
- McMath, Robert R. (Robert Raynolds), 1891-1962 1
- Michaels, Glen, 1927- 1
- Milles, Olga Granner, 1874-1967 1
- Morris & Co. (London, England) 1
- Page, Herman, Reverend, 1866-1942 1
- Pewabic Pottery (Firm) 1
- Plumb, Helen 1
- Roche, Kevin, 1922-2019 1
- Saarinen Swanson, Pipsan 1
- Saarinen, Loja 1
- Schmidt, Julius, 1923-2017 1
- Scripps, James E. (James Edmund), 1835-1906 1
- Slade, Roy 1
- Steele, Jack Keijo 1
- Stevens, William Oliver, 1878-1955 1
- Stone, Arthur J., 1847-1938 1
- Stone, Ralph, 1868-1957 1
- Stratton, Mary Chase Perry, 1867-1961 1
- Swanson, Jons Robert Ferdinand 1
- University of Michigan 1
- Weese, Harry, 1915-1998 1
- White, Lee A., 1886- 1
- Winter, Jessie 1
- Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 1 ∧ less
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