George Gough Booth

person 4 connections Est. 1949

About

Newspaper publisher and philanthropist. Born 1864 Toronto. Died 1949. Co-founded Cranbrook Educational Community with wife Ellen Scripps Booth. Hired Eliel Saarinen 1925. Funded Cranbrook Academy of Art. Patron of Maija Grotell's ceramics program.

Connections

Founded (1)

→ Cranbrook Academy of Art institution co-founded Cranbrook with Ellen Scripps Booth

Career (1)

→ Eliel Saarinen person hired as campus architect

Connected to (2)

→ Carl Milles person Booth brought Milles to Cranbrook as sculptor-in-residence

→ Maija Grotell person Booth era Cranbrook hired Grotell as head of ceramics 1938