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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 Institute of Science Director’s Office Records
Collection
Identifier: 1990-31
Abstract
Cranbrook Institute of Science is a nationally recognized natural history and science museum primarily serving Michigan and the Great Lakes region. It seeks to interest and educate people of all ages about nature, science and humankind through its exhibits, education, collection, research, and public programs. The Institute is a division of Cranbrook Educational Community, beginning, as do all Cranbrook institutions, with the vision and generosity of George Gough Booth. Originally...
Dates:
1920 - 1990
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
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
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- Booth, George G. (George Gough), 1864-1949 3
- Booth, Henry Scripps, 1897-1988 3
- Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 3
- Mitchell, Wallace, 1911-1977 3
- Saarinen, Eliel, 1873-1950 3
- Slade, Roy 3
- Bertoia, Harry 2
- Cranbrook Foundation 2
- Cranbrook Institute of Science 2
- Detroit Institute of Arts 2
- Fredericks, Marshall M., 1908-1998 2
- Hammarstrom, Olav 2
- Milles, Carl, 1875-1955 2
- Paulsen, S. Glen (Serenus Glen) 2
- Saarinen, Eero, 1910-1961 2
- Schmidt, Julius, 1923-2017 2
- Strengell, Marianne, 1909- 2
- Thomas, Richard 2
- University of Michigan 2
- Appleman, Daniel E. (1931-1998) 1
- Baldwin, Benjamin, 1913-1993 1
- Barker, Laurence (Laurence Addison), 1930- 1
- Booth, James Scripps, 1888-1954 1
- Buckberrough, John 1
- Cain, Stanley A. (Stanley Adair), 1902-1995 1
- Carmel, James H., 1919-2016 1
- Christ Church Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 1
- Christ-Janer, Albert, 1910-1973 1
- Colburn, William 1
- Concordia Senior College (Fort Wayne, Ind.) 1
- Cranbrook Academy of Art. Architecture Studio 1
- Cranbrook Architectural Office 1
- Cranbrook Art Museum 1
- Dansereau, Pierre, 1911-2011 1
- Detroit News (Firm) 1
- Eames, Ray 1
- Eero Saarinen & Associates 1
- Ford Motor Company 1
- GM Technical Center 1
- Girard, Alexander 1
- Goodall, Jane, 1934- 1
- Grotell, Maija, 1899-1973 1
- Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum 1
- Hulbert, Harold S. (Harold Stacey), 1887-1949 1
- Kimball, Margueritte Eleanor, 1906-1995 1
- Knodel, Gerhardt 1
- Knoll Associates, Inc. 1
- Lawrence Technological University 1
- Levin, Carl, 1934-2021 1
- McCoy, Katherine, 1945- 1
- McCoy, Michael (1944) 1
- McMath, Robert R. (Robert Raynolds), 1891-1962 1
- Michaels, Glen, 1927- 1
- Michigan State University 1
- Minoru Yamasaki and Associates 1
- Nickell, Walter P. 1
- Oakland Community College 1
- Pallasmaa, Juhani 1
- Roche, Kevin, 1922-2019 1
- Saarinen Swanson, Pipsan 1
- Saarinen, Lillian Swann, 1912- 1
- Skillman Foundation 1
- Swanson, Jons Robert Ferdinand 1
- Thompson, Paul W. (Paul Woodard), 1909-1994 1
- Vettraino, Dominick 1
- W.K. Kellogg Foundation 1
- Wayne State University 1
- Weese, Harry, 1915-1998 1
- White, Lee A., 1886- 1 ∧ less
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