Cranbrook Art Museum
Subtitle: 100 treasures
By: [with an introductory essay by Greg Wittkopp ; section introductions by Joe Houston].
Contributors: Wittkopp, Gregory.; Houston, Joe.; Cranbrook Academy of Art. Museum.
Publisher: Cranbrook Art Museum
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Bloomfield Hills, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780966857757
Subjects: Cranbrook Academy of Art. -- Museum -- Catalogs.; Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
Genres: Exhibitions.
Notes: Cranbrook Art Museum: 100 treasures documents the permanent collection of Cranbrook Art Museum and an exhibition presented at Cranbrook Art Museum December 13, 2003, through March 28, 2004. The exhibition launched the year-long centennial celebration of Cranbrook Educational Community, which was conceived when George Gough Booth and Ellen Scripps Booth purchased land in Bloomfield Hills on January 18, 1904 --verso T.P.

Essays by Dora Apel, Ashley Callahan, Mark A. Coir, Gerry Craig, Ellen M. Dodington, Judy Dyki, Leslie S. Edwards, Fabio J. Fernańdez, Gary S. Griffin, Michael D. Hall, Craig Hoernschemeyer, Irene Hofmann, Joe Houston, Elena Ivanova, Diane Kirkpatrick, Scott Klinker, Gerhardt Knodel, Mary Beth Kreiner, Jane Lackey, Peter Lynch, Diane VanderBeke Mager, Marsha Miro, David D.J. Rau, Mary Riordan, Sarah Schleuning, Roy Slade, Carl Toth, Susan S. Waller, Jeffrey Welch, and Gregory Wittkopp.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 261).
Table of contents: title: A life with beauty : the Arts and Crafts Movement, 1904-1940; title: An enchanted place : creating the Cranbrook Community, 1923-1946; title: Reflecting life : struggle and progress between the wars, 1923-1944; title: Designing the modern : Cranbrook at mid-century, 1940-1960; title: Postwar expressions  : Abstraction, Minimalism and Pop, 1944-1977; title: Weaving diverse traditions : art, craft and design now, 1979-2003.