Word: cranbrook
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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...
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...
...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...
...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...
...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...