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George Gough Booth Papers
Collection
Identifier: 1981-01
Abstract
The collection documents the life and work of George Gough Booth, a renowned advocate of the arts, and a great philanthropist whose crowning achievement was the establishment of Cranbrook Educational Community. He was also one of the nation's leading newspapermen in the first half of this century. It includes biographical materials including legal documents, travel itineraries, talks and writings, and the financial and business records of the Cranbrook Press. It documents his working life...
Dates:
1864 - 1949
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 Press and Photo Department Records
Collection
Identifier: 1990-42
Abstract
In 1900, George Gough Booth established the Cranbrook Press at the Detroit Evening News building. The enterprise lasted only two years, but it was later revived at Cranbrook in 1930. The Print Shop was headed by Edward Alonzo Miller, a well-known typographer, and Jean Eschmann, a bookbinder of high repute, and already employed by Booth, provided fine leather bindings. The first volume produced by Miller and Eschmann was a service book for the Festival of Gifts at Cranbrook Church. The...
Dates:
1929 - 1975
Bernard “Tony” Rosenthal Papers
Collection
Identifier: 2000-07
Abstract
In 1939, Tony Rosenthal attended the Cranbrook Academy of Art to study sculpture with Carl Milles. There he met and became friends with Charles Eames, Florence Schust Knoll, Eero Saarinen, and others. After WWII, Rosenthal worked on commissions for several architectural firms and taught sculpture at UCLA. In 1960, he moved to New York City where he exhibited in galleries and received commissions to create outdoor sculptures in New York City, Honolulu, Ann Arbor, and other cities. In 1980,...
Dates:
1939 - 2000
Saarinen Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: 1990-08
Abstract
Finnish architect, Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen was born August 20, 1873. In 1904 Saarinen married artist Minna Carolina Mathilde Louise “Loja” Gesellius (b. 1879). The Saarinen's daughter Eeva Lisa “Pipsan” was born in Helsingfors, Finland on 31 March 1905 and their son Eero was born in Kyrkslaett, Finland on 20 August 1910. In 1923 Eliel met the Detroit newspaper magnate George Gough Booth, who was to become his chief patron in America. At Booth’s invitation, Saarinen moved his practice to...
Dates:
1880 - 1989
Astrid Sampe Collection of Eero Saarinen Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: 1995-87
Abstract
Astrid Sampe studied at the Higher Industrial Art School of Stockholm and as an exchange student at the Royal Academy of Art in London. Her career spanned many decades starting in 1935, and encompassed being head of Nordiska Kompaniet (NK), being appointed "Royal Designer, Hon.RDI of the Royal Society of Arts and, in 1951, wove the first fiberglass fabrics. This collection comprises correspondence reflecting the romantic attachment between Eero Saarinen and Astrid Sampe, as well as her role...
Dates:
1948 - 1960
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- Booth, George G. (George Gough), 1864-1949 4
- Cranbrook Academy of Art 4
- Saarinen, Eliel, 1873-1950 4
- Bertoia, Harry 3
- Booth, Henry Scripps, 1897-1988 3
- Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 3
- Cranbrook Institute of Science 3
- Cranbrook Kingswood School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 3
- Detroit Institute of Arts 3
- Eames, Charles 3
- Fredericks, Marshall M., 1908-1998 3
- Hatt, Robert T. (Robert Torrens), 1902- 3
- Saarinen, Eero, 1910-1961 3
- Saarinen, Lillian Swann, 1912- 3
- Aalto, Alvar, 1898-1976 2
- Booth, James Scripps, 1888-1954 2
- Christ-Janer, Albert, 1910-1973 2
- Cranbrook Foundation 2
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- Ford Motor Company 2
- GM Technical Center 2
- Grotell, Maija, 1899-1973 2
- Jefferson National Expansion Memorial (Saint Louis, Mo.) 2
- Knoll, Florence, 1917-2019 2
- Lorch, Emil, 1870-1963 2
- Maroti, Geza 2
- Marquis, Samuel S., 1866-1948 2
- Milles, Olga Granner, 1874-1967 2
- Saarinen, Loja 2
- Sepeshy, Zoltan, 1898-1974 2
- Strengell, Gustaf 2
- Swanson, Jons Robert Ferdinand 2
- White, Lee A., 1886- 2
- Yale University 2
- Ardolino, Edward 1
- Bach, Oscar Bruno, 1884-1957 1
- Bank of Montreal 1
- Barker, Laurence (Laurence Addison), 1930- 1
- Booth, Ellen Warren Scripps, 1863-1948 1
- Booth, Ralph H. 1
- Bradford, Francis Scott, 1898-1961 1
- Charles E. Lauriat Co. 1
- Cleveland Museum of Art 1
- Connick, Charles J. (Charles Jay), 1875- 1
- Cram and Ferguson 1
- Cram, Ralph Adams, 1963-1942 1
- Cranbrook Art Museum 1
- Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research. Cranbrook Archives 1
- Cranbrook School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 1
- Croze, Harvey 1
- Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts 1
- Detroit Trust Company 1
- Dinkeloo, John G. (John Gerard), 1918-1981 1
- Eames, Ray 1
- Edw. F. Caldwell & Co. 1
- Ehrich Galleries 1
- Episcopal Church. Diocese of Michigan 1
- Ford, Henry, 1863-1947 1
- Frayer, William Alley 1
- Girard, Alexander 1
- Goodhue, Bertram Grosvenor, 1869-1924 1
- Hammarstrom, Olav 1
- Herter, Albert, 1871-1950 1
- Hvitträsk (Museum) 1
- James Powell & Sons (Whitefriars) Ltd. 1
- Kellogg, Frederick William, 1866-1940 1
- Kirchmayer, Johannes, 1860-1930 1
- Kirk, Arthur Nevill 1
- Knoll Associates, Inc. 1
- Knoll, Hans, 1914-1955 1
- Korab, Balthazar 1
- Lauriat, Charles E., 1842-1920 1
- Manship, Paul, 1885-1966 1
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1
- McMath, Robert R. (Robert Raynolds), 1891-1962 1
- McRae, Milton A. (Milton Alexander), 1858-1930 1
- Mitchell, Wallace, 1911-1977 1
- Morris & Co. (London, England) 1
- Öhquist, Johannes, 1861-1949 1
- Packard Motor Car Company 1
- Paulsen, S. Glen (Serenus Glen) 1
- Pewabic Pottery (Firm) 1
- Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973 1
- Roche, Kevin, 1922-2019 1
- Rosenthal, Tony, 1914-2009 1
- Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) 1
- Royal School of Needlework (London, England) 1
- Saarinen Swanson, Pipsan 1
- Sampe, Astrid, 1909-2002 1
- Schmidt, Julius, 1923-2017 1
- Scripps, E. W. (Edward Willis), 1854-1926 1
- Scripps, Ellen Browning, 1836-1932 1
- Scripps, James E. (James Edmund), 1835-1906 1
- Scripps, William E. (William Edmund), 1882-1952 1
- Sibelius, Jean, 1865-1957 1
- Simonds, O. C. (Ossian Cole), 1855-1931 1
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