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Title:Seaforms Number 96
Artist:Albert Christ-Janer (American, Appleton, Minnesota 1910–1973 Bellagio)
Date:1966
Medium:Watercolor on gesso
Dimensions:7 1/4 × 44 1/4 in. (18.4 × 112.4 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Gift of the artist, 1972
Object Number:1972.113
Inscription: Signed (lower right): Christ-Janer
the artist, Tuxedo Park, N. Y. and Athens, Ga. (1966–72; his gift to MMA)
New York. Krasner Gallery. "Albert Christ-Janer," January 3–21, 1967, no catalogue.
University Park. Pennsylvania State University. "Albert Christ-Janer," October 5–31, 1971, no catalogue.
Athens. Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia. "Albert Christ-Janer," February 22–March 28, 1976, no. 33 (as "Seaforms No. 96").
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Scope and Contents
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Time to Study! (History, that is)
As college students across the country buckle down to study for final exams and finish writing end-of-semester papers, there will be one school where that’s not happening: Cranbrook Academy of Art. Instead, our Academy students are busy making in their studios, and frantically producing work for their semi-regular critiques with Artists-in-Residence. This follows the model set up here by founding president Eliel Saarinen, who famously rejected what he called the “non-creative-school-book-learned-art-teacher” in favor of a method he called “self-education under good leadership.”
While the Academy’s extremely self-directed, studio-based education is proudly traced back to our founding, Cranbrook did, in fact, once offer formal courses in the history of art. These quarterly courses—taught by museum curators, visiting professors, and artists—utilized both slide shows and actual paintings.
Here, we see Museum Director Albert Christ-Janer lecturing in the then-new Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum and Library. The classroom is simple, just folding chairs and an illuminated blackboard set up in the lower-level galleries. In front of the students hangs Doris Lee’s Fisherman’s Wife. I admire Christ-Janers books, and imagine it would’ve