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...known for his rose-granite railway station at Helsinki, Eliel Saarinen recently won (with Son Eero and Son-in-law Robert Swanson) the national competition for the $2,500,000 Smithsonian Gallery of Art, which, if built, will be Washington's first modern Government building. Now president of Cranbrook Academy of Art near Detroit, Architect Saarinen exerts a widening influence over U. S. building...
Engaged. Eleanor Roosevelt, who made her debut two years ago in the home (White House) of her aunt, Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt; and Edward Proctor Elliott, British architectural student; in Dedham, Mass. They met last year as students at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Mich...
...Sweden's No. 1 sculptor. Following year Chicago's Architects Holabird & Root brought him to the U. S. to do a fountain for their Michigan Square Building in Chicago. Then Detroit's Philanthropist George Booth, who was trying to found an ideal art colony at nearby Cranbrook, invited Milles to teach sculpture there. Since then Milles has lived at Cranbrook, dividing the honors of its famous Art Academy with Scandinavian Modern Architect Eliel Saarinen. Sculptor Milles teaches, but goes on hewing and casting too. Says he, of his bold, agonized, monumental figures: "You see their faces...
Last fortnight LIFE and the famed Cranbrook art centre at Bloomfield Hills, Mich. put on an art show. LIFE and Cranbrook invited a gilt-edged jury of U. S. critics to choose 60 leading contemporary U. S. artists, then to pick one picture by each of the 60. Some of these canvases had been previously shown in public; all (like Speicher's Alicia, see cut) were typical of the artist's best work, thus represented the fresh cream of U. S. painting...
Night the exhibition opened, 1,000 Detroit socialites braved wintry winds to attend. By week's end 2,500 gallerygoers from as far away as San Francisco and Baltimore had followed them. To add to the U. S. atmosphere, Cranbrook provided U. S. tomato plants in window boxes, U. S. music, Rhine wine flavored to taste like U. S. new-mown...