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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.
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.
Saarinen speaks of her childhood in New York; her training with Alexander Archipenko and Heinz Warneke; a ceramic relief for the Crow Island School, Winnetka, Ill.; ceramic and metal reliefs for architecture; the Cranbrook Academy of Art; her drawings and her sculpture.
This site provides access to the papers of Lilian Swann Saarinen in the Archives of American Art that were digitized in 2017, and total 12,958 images.
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.
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.
Lilian Swann Saarinen Exhibitions View all. 1945 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings. Jan 3–Feb 8, 1945
