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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
F. Shirley Prouty Research Collection on Johannes Kirchmayer
Collection
Identifier: 2018-04
Abstract
F. Shirley Prouty is the great great-niece of Johannes Kirchmayer. She spent many years researching his life, family history, and artworks. Her research is published in the book Johannes Kirchmayer, 1860-1930: master carver from Germany's passion play village to America's finest sanctuaries. This collection holds the research files for this publication. Johannes Kirchmayer was born in Oberammergau, Bavaria, in 1860 and emigrated to the United States in 1880. He work is predominantly...
Dates:
1873 - 2015; Majority of material found within 1994 - 2015
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- 2
- Milles, Carl, 1875-1955 2
- Mitchell, Wallace, 1911-1977 2
- Sepeshy, Zoltan, 1898-1974 2
- Strengell, Marianne, 1909- 2
- Thomas, Richard 2
- Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 1
- All Saints’ Ashmont (Parish : Boston, Mass.) 1
- Baldwin, Benjamin, 1913-1993 1
- Barker, Laurence (Laurence Addison), 1930- 1
- Booth, Henry Scripps, 1897-1988 1
- Brigham, Charles, 1841-1925 1
- Cascieri, Arcangelo, 1902-1997 1
- Christ Church Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 1
- Christ-Janer, Albert, 1910-1973 1
- Church of St. Mary the Virgin (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Church of the Intercession (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Connick, Charles J. (Charles Jay), 1875- 1
- Cooke, Edward S., Jr. (Edward Strong), 1954- 1
- Cram and Ferguson 1
- Cram, Goodhue, and Ferguson 1
- Cram, Ralph Adams, 1963-1942 1
- Cram, Wentworth, and Goodhue 1
- Cranbrook Art Museum 1
- Cranbrook Foundation 1
- Cranbrook Institute of Science 1
- Detroit News (Firm) 1
- Eames, Ray 1
- Ford Motor Company 1
- Fredericks, Marshall M., 1908-1998 1
- Girard, Alexander 1
- Goodhue, Bertram Grosvenor, 1869-1924 1
- Grigny, Nicolas de, 1672-1703 1
- Grotell, Maija, 1899-1973 1
- Hammarstrom, Olav 1
- Herter Brothers (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Irving & Casson 1
- Kempe, Charles Eamer, 1837-1907 1
- Kimball, Margueritte Eleanor, 1906-1995 1
- Kirchmayer, Johannes, 1860-1930 1
- Knodel, Gerhardt 1
- Knoll, Florence, 1917-2019 1
- Lawrie, Lee, 1877-1963 1
- Le Brun, Napoleon, 1821-1901 1
- Michaels, Glen, 1927- 1
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1
- Page, Herman, Reverend, 1866-1942 1
- Paulsen, S. Glen (Serenus Glen) 1
- Prouty, F. Shirley (Florence Shirley) 1
- Richardson, H. H. (Henry Hobson), 1838-1886 1
- Roche, Kevin, 1922-2019 1
- Saarinen, Eero, 1910-1961 1
- Saarinen, Eliel, 1873-1950 1
- Saarinen, Lillian Swann, 1912- 1
- Schmidt, Julius, 1923-2017 1
- Shand-Tucci, Douglass, 1941- 1
- Slade, Roy 1
- Society of Arts and Crafts (Boston, Mass.) 1
- University of Michigan 1
- Vaughan, Henry, 1845-1917 1
- Vettraino, Dominick 1
- Weese, Harry, 1915-1998 1
- White, Lee A., 1886- 1 ∧ less
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