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Word: cranbrook (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...winged horse and heroic rider who angered Zeus by their presumption at trying to mount the heavens. The infuriated god sent a hornet to sting Pegasus' flank, and Bellerophon, thrown from the horse's back, plummeted to earth. Milles made a sketch model that stood in his Cranbrook, Mich. studio "for years," until Des Moines Publisher Gardner Cowles came along and commissioned him to complete it for the Art Center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Improbable Horse | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

Brown, Robert Glenn of 717 Lansing Street Charlotte, Mich.; Charlotte High Forbes, Jack Eugene of 4409 North Pennsylvania Street. Indianapolis; Shortridge High. Indianapolis. Gresham Glen Edward of 210 Highland Avenue, Highland Park Mich.; Highland Park High, Osnes. David Marvin of 1530 Wellesley Drive Detroit: Cranbrook School Bloomfield Hills. Mich Piehl, DeWayne Jorvian of Box 42. RR No. 2 St. Joseph, Mtch; St. Joseph High Stegman Anthony Edward of 2882 Oak Grove Drive, Poatiac Mtch.: Catholic Central High Detroit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scholarship Lists Released | 6/21/1949 | See Source »

...bird on the wing. The masters of machines that can outfly any bird for speed or distance must admit that a bird is, in a structural sense, a small and amazingly efficient living airplane. John H. Storer explains all this in a new book, The Flight of Birds (Cranbrook Institute of Science...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Way of a Bird | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

...Carl is a stooped old man with long white hair, who has lived and taught at Michigan's Cranbrook Academy of Art since 1931. Some of his best-known U.S. works: the Fountain of Diana, Chicago; the "Meeting of the Waters" fountain in St. Louis; the 37-ft. Peace Memorial, St. Paul; a granite monument to early Swedish settlers of Wilmington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Happily Ever After | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

...window dressing, finally married a girl "as blonde and as genuine as a sand dune," and discovered to his surprise that he could make a living and even support a family (two children) by teaching art. Now he heads the Department of Painting at Michigan's progressive Cranbrook Academy. It was a teacher who gave Sepeshy his first incentive to become an artist. "If I hadn't wanted to 'show' that drawing teacher who had flunked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Eye-Burner | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

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