Polaar Member Username: Polaar
Post Number: 9 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, November 07, 2006 - 8:50 am: | |
I recently came across some children's art that would have hung in my mother's nursery in the mid to late 1930s. The back is stamped "Cora Case Art Studio Detroit Miami Beach." Does anyone know anything about the history and former location of this studio? I am attaching a sample of one of the paintings, painted on glass with what looks like pressed grass and fibreglass in the background. |
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell
Post Number: 3252 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, November 07, 2006 - 2:08 pm: | |
I can find no listing for that studio in my '29 or '40 Detroit City Guide. Maybe it came and went in between. |
Mikem Member Username: Mikem
Post Number: 2902 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, November 07, 2006 - 2:53 pm: | |
And I cannot find one for '25 nor '35. |
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936
Post Number: 903 Registered: 01-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, November 07, 2006 - 4:07 pm: | |
1930 U. S. Census has only one "Cora Case" living in Detroit, but she is an 11-year old girl, daughter of an auto plant pressman. Family address is at 791 Canfield (doesn't say E or W). No one by that name living in Florida. |
Danny Member Username: Danny
Post Number: 5177 Registered: 02-2004
| Posted on Tuesday, November 07, 2006 - 5:26 pm: | |
The house that Case family lived is long gone. |