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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Cranbrook Educational Community (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, United States)en_US
dc.coverage.temporal1938-1942 (creation); restored 2009-2011 (restoration)en_US
dc.creatorSaarinen, Elielen_US
dc.date1938-1942en_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-14T14:35:07Z
dc.date.available2016-06-14T14:35:07Z
dc.date.issued1938-1942en_US
dc.identifier263464en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 3245en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/179522
dc.descriptionView under the propylaeum showing the library entrance door set off-center; torchère at left; In Saarinen's designs for the Cranbrook campus he was able to combine a dedication to a craft-based tradition, which grew out of the Finnish National Romanticism, with mature urban-planning skills to produce a truly holistic composition. The museum building is described as "spare and almost Neo-classical," and was Saarinen’s last great work at Cranbrook. Its front arcade serves as a front façade, as a propylaeum, for the entire complex, with landscaped gardens gently sloping away from the massive columns, creating views to fountains, sculptures, and other campus buildings. The open portico (propylaeum) of the main facade has "the unmistakable air of European abstracted classicism of the 1930’s." Its materiality is consistent with the previous buildings at Cranbrook, but its scale is more monumental, allowing the building to have a more assertive presence on the campus. The museum features contemporary art and design with a permanent collection that includes works by Charles and Ray Eames, Harry Bertoia, Maija Grotell and Carl Milles, as well as Robert Motherwell, Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. Source: docomomo (US) [website]; http://www.docomomo-us.org (accessed 7/21/2015)en_US
dc.format.mediumtawny Mankato limestone; concrete; buff yellow bricken_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectarchitectureen_US
dc.subjectArt museumsen_US
dc.subjectteaching collectionsen_US
dc.subjectTwentieth centuryen_US
dc.titleCranbrook Museum of Arten_US
dc.title.alternativeCranbrook Academy of Art Library and Museumen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A1-SE-CA-M-A22en_US
vra.culturalContextAmericanen_US
vra.techniqueconstruction (assembling)en_US
vra.worktypelibrary (building)en_US
vra.worktypeart museumen_US
dc.contributor.displayEliel Saarinen (Finnish architect, 1873-1950)en_US


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