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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.
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.
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.
The following oral history transcript is the result of a tape-recorded interview with Lilian Saarinen on February 15, 1979, Fenruary 2, 1981, and November 13, 1980. The interview took place in Cambridge, MA, and was conducted by Robert Brown for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Lilian Swann Saarinen (1912-1995) was a sculptor and architect who studied at the Art Students League with Alexander Archipenko in 1928, Albert Stewart and Heninz Warneke from 1934-1936, and with Carl Milles at the Cranbrook Academy of Art from 1936-1940.
Saarinen, Lilian Swann, 1912-1995, Brown, Robert F, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Archipenko, Alexander, 1887-1964, Warneke, Heinz (Heinrich), 1895-1983. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.si.edu/search/results.htm?q=record_ID=AAA.saarin79&repo=DPLA>.
