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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
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
Saarinen-Swanson Reunion Records
Collection
Identifier: 2001-14
Abstract
Eliel Saarinen, along with his wife Loja, son Eero, daughter Pipsan, and son-in-law J. Robert F. Swanson, founded a creative tradition at Cranbrook that endures to this day. The Saarinens' fame and design philosophies attracted many of the brightest talents in the architectural, design, and planning fields to study at Cranbrook or to work for their businesses --- known variously as Saarinen and Swanson; Saarinen and Saarinen; Saarinen, Swanson, and Saarinen; Swanson Associates; and Eero...
Dates:
1995 - 2001
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- Booth, George G. (George Gough), 1864-1949 3
- Booth, Henry Scripps, 1897-1988 3
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- Fredericks, Marshall M., 1908-1998 3
- Hatt, Robert T. (Robert Torrens), 1902- 3
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- Sepeshy, Zoltan, 1898-1974 3
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- Grotell, Maija, 1899-1973 2
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- Milles, Carl, 1875-1955 2
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- Christ-Janer, Albert, 1910-1973 1
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- Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research. Cranbrook Archives 1
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- Cranbrook Kingswood School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 1
- Cranbrook Press 1
- Cranbrook School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 1
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- Detroit News (Firm) 1
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- Ford Motor Company 1
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- GM Technical Center 1
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- Hulbert, Harold S. (Harold Stacey), 1887-1949 1
- Institute for Advanced Pastoral Studies 1
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- Knoll Associates, Inc. 1
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- Lawrence Technological University 1
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- Marquis, Samuel S., 1866-1948 1
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- McMath, Robert R. (Robert Raynolds), 1891-1962 1
- Milles, Olga Granner, 1874-1967 1
- Morris & Co. (London, England) 1
- Nowicki, M. S. 1
- Page, Herman, Reverend, 1866-1942 1
- Pewabic Pottery (Firm) 1
- Plumb, Helen 1
- Rapson, Ralph, 1914-2008 1
- Roche, Kevin, 1922-2019 1
- Saarinen, Lillian Swann, 1912- 1
- Saarinen, Loja 1
- Scripps, James E. (James Edmund), 1835-1906 1
- Slade, Roy 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
- Strengell, Marianne, 1909- 1
- Swanson, Robert Saarinen 1
- Thomas, Richard 1
- Torre, Susana 1
- White, Lee A., 1886- 1
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