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...Architect Eliel Saarinen invited Sculptor Milles to teach and work at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in pleasant, rolling Bloomfield Hills, near Detroit. There Carl Milles created his huge Orpheus fountain which many of his admirers consider the greatest of his great work.* Milles modeled an Orpheus descending from Heaven, his lyre resting on his left shoulder, his right hand plucking its invisible strings. Directly beneath Orpheus a stylized Cerberus is about to doze off into careless sleep. Around the rim of the fountain nude figures are arrested in various postures by the strains of Orpheus' music. A very...
Other contributors are Joseph Urban and Armistead Fitzhugh (landscape architect) of Manhattan, Eliel Saarinen of Detroit, Leon V. Solon (ceramics) of Tenafly, N. J. & Manhattan...
...school, already open, will be followed by a school for girls. They will finally prepare for college, or encourage the talented to enter the school of arts and crafts and the academy of art, yet to be founded. Artists and craftsmen of high repute-Eliel Saarinen,, Finnish architect, Geza Maroti, Hungarian sculptor-will instruct apprentices, form a colony...