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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
Richard Thomas Papers
Collection
Identifier: 1989-14
Abstract
Richard Thomas graduated from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in May 1948 with an MFA in painting, subsequently re-establishing the Metalsmithing Department at the Academy and becoming Head for thirty-six years. He also served in other administrative capacities for the Academy, including Dean of Students (1951-50), Registrar (1962-65), Administrative Assistant to the President (1965-66), and Dean of Students (1968). His chief interest was liturgical art, fabricating around 300 objects for...
Dates:
1930 - 1984; Majority of material found within 1950 - 1978
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- Art -- Study and teaching 2
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- Christian art and symbolism 1
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- Barker, Laurence (Laurence Addison), 1930- 2
- Bertoia, Harry 2
- Booth, George G. (George Gough), 1864-1949 2
- Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 2
- Cranbrook Foundation 2
- Detroit Institute of Arts 2
- Eames, Charles 2
- Hatt, Robert T. (Robert Torrens), 1902- 2
- Milles, Carl, 1875-1955 2
- Saarinen, Eliel, 1873-1950 2
- Schmidt, Julius, 1923-2017 2
- Strengell, Marianne, 1909- 2
- Baldwin, Benjamin, 1913-1993 1
- Booth, Henry Scripps, 1897-1988 1
- Christ Church Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 1
- Christ-Janer, Albert, 1910-1973 1
- Cranbrook Art Museum 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
- Grotell, Maija, 1899-1973 1
- Hammarstrom, Olav 1
- Kimball, Margueritte Eleanor, 1906-1995 1
- Knodel, Gerhardt 1
- Michaels, Glen, 1927- 1
- Paulsen, S. Glen (Serenus Glen) 1
- Roche, Kevin, 1922-2019 1
- Saarinen, Eero, 1910-1961 1
- Saarinen, Lillian Swann, 1912- 1
- Slade, Roy 1
- Stone, Arthur J., 1847-1938 1
- University of Michigan 1
- Vanderbilt, Suzanne 1
- Vettraino, Dominick 1
- Weese, Harry, 1915-1998 1
- White, Lee A., 1886- 1 ∧ less
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