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Lilian Louisa Swann Saarinen (April 17, 1912 – May 22, 1995) was an American sculptor, artist, and writer. She was the first wife of Finnish-American architect and industrial designer Eero Saarinen, with whom she sometimes collaborated. Early life. She was born in New York City to Dr. Arthur Wharton Swann and his wife Susan Ridley Sedgwick.
Lilian Saarinen. April 17, 1012 – May 22, 1995. Lilian Louisa Swan Saarinen, daughter of Dr. Arthur Warton Swann and Susan Ridley Sedgwick, was born in New York City. Lily demonstrated an early love of animals, going with a caretaker after school each day to the Bronx Zoo to draw.
Summary: An interview of Lilian Swann Saarinen conducted in three installments between 1979-1981, by Robert F. Brown, for the Archives of American Art, in Cambridge, Mass.
Collection Information. Size: 9 Linear feet. Summary: The papers of Cambridge sculptor and illustrator, Lilian Swann Saarinen, measure nine linear feet and date from circa 1909 to 1977.
May 22, 1995 · Lilian Louisa "Lily" Swann Saarinen was a sculptor and illustrator. She specialized in animal portraits. Lilian was born on 17 April 1912 in New York, New York. She was the daughter of Arthur Wharton Swann and Susan Ridley Sedgwick. She began drawing animals as a small child.
- Female
- April 17, 1912
- Eero Saarinen
- May 22, 1995
Sep 26, 2022 · In 1939, as his son Eric Saarinen recounts, Saarinen married the sculptor Lily Swann, and had two children—Eric in 1942 and Susan in 1945. In 1950, after Eliel’s death, Saarinen founded his own office, called Eero Saarinen & Associates.
These interviews are part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and others. Interviewee. Saarinen, Lilian Swann, 1912-1995. Interviewer.
