The collection is arranged as 11 series.
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Lilian Swann Saarinen donated the collection in 1975. She lent additional materials for microfilming in 1976.
The Archives of American Art also holds material lent for microfilming (reels 1152 and 1192) including a scrapbook containing clippings, copies of letters and telegrams received, and reproductions of Saarinen's work. There is a copy of Saarinen's book, "Who Am I?", and three albums containing photographs of Saarinen, photographs and reproductions of her work, a list of exhibitions, quotes about her, and writings by her about sculpture. Lent material was returned to the lender and is not described in the collection container inventory.
The papers of Cambridge sculptor and illustrator, Lilian Swann Saarinen, measure nine linear feet and date from circa 1909 to 1977. The collection documents Saarinen's career through correspondence with artists, architects, publishers, and gallery owners; writings and notes, including manuscripts and illustrations for children's books and publications; project and teaching files; financial records; artwork, including numerous project sketches; and photos of Saarinen and her artwork. Saarinen's personal life is also documented through diaries and correspondence with friends and family members, including Eero Saarinen, to whom she was married from 1939-1953.
Biographical material consists of resumes and biographical sketches, as well as a 1951 blueprint for the Eero Saarinen and Associates Office Building in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
Correspondence documents Saarinen's personal and professional life through letters to and from Eero Saarinen and other family members, including six letters from Loja Saarinen; correspondence with artists and architects, including Merle Armitage, Charles and Ray Eames, Carl Koch, Henry Kreis, Carl Milles, Laszlo and Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, Robert Venturi, and Harry Weese; and friends and colleagues at the Cranbrook Academy of Art and Knoll Associates. Also documented is Saarinen's business relationship with Midtown Galleries and Caresse Crosby, and publishers and publications including
Writings and Notes document Saarinen's work on several children's publications, including
Diaries consist of bound diary volumes, loose-leaf journal entries, and heavily annotated engagement calendars, documenting Saarinen's personal life, artistic aspirations, and career development from the 1930s-1970s. This material provides a deeply personal view of the emotional landscape of Saarinen's life, her struggles to balance her identity as a working artist with the roles of wife, mother, and homemaker, and the complex, and often competing, relationships within the renowned architectural family into which she married.
Project files document Saarinen's work on book cover designs, federal and post office commissions in Bloomfield, Indiana, Carlisle, Kentucky, and Evanston, Illinois, reliefs for the Crow Island School in Winnetka, Illinois, and other important commissions including the Harbor National Bank Clock in Boston, Massachusetts, the KLM Airlines installation at JFK Airport, the
Teaching files document Saarinen's "Language of Clay Course" which she taught at Cambridge Art Center and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Financial records document exhibition and sales expenses for two exhibitions, including her show at G Place Gallery in 1944.
Printed material consists of clippings about Saarinen and her family, exhibition announcements and catalogs for herself and others, and reference files from the 1930s-1940s, primarily comprising clippings of animals.
Additional printed material documenting Saarinen's career can be found in one of two scrapbooks found in the collection. An additional scrapbook consists of clippings relating primarily to Saarinen's parents.
Artwork comprises extensive sketches, particularly animal and figure sketches, in graphite, crayon, ink, pastel, and watercolor. The sketches demonstrate in particular Saarinen's developing interest in and skill with animal portraiture from her childhood to the 1960s.
Photographs are primarily of artwork and Saarinen's 1944 exhibition at G Place Gallery. Also found are one negative of Saarinen, probably with Eero Saarinen, and a group photo including Lilian, Eero, and Eliel Saarinen with the model for the Detroit Civic Center, circa 1940s.
Lilian Swann Saarinen papers, circa 1909-1977. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
The collection was processed to a minimal level, and a finding aid was prepared by Stephanie Ashley in 2015. The collection was further processed and prepared for scanning by Stephanie Ashley in 2017.
Cambridge artist and sculptor, Lilian Swann Saarinen (1912-1995), studied at the Art Students League with Alexander Archipenko in 1928, and later with Albert Stewart and Heninz Warneke from 1934-1936, before moving to Michigan where she studied with Carl Milles at the Cranbrook Academy of Art from 1936-1940. Saarinen was an accomplished skier and a member of the 1936 US Olympic ski team.
At Cranbrook, Swann met architect Eero Saarinen, whom she married in 1939. She subsequently worked with Saarinen's design group on a variety of projects, including the Westward Expansion Memorial, which later became known as the "Gateway Arch" in St. Louis. Lilian and Eero had a son, Eric, and a daughter, Susie, before divorcing in 1953.
Saarinen, who had developed an affinity for drawing animals in childhood, specialized in animal portraits in a variety of sculptural media. In 1939, she exhibited her sculpture
Saarinen was a contributing author and illustrator for a variety of publications, including
Saarinen taught ceramic sculpture to soldiers for the Red Cross Arts and Skills Unit rehabilitation program in 1945, served on the Visiting Committee to the Museum School at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, from 1959-1964, where she taught ceramics, and later taught a course entitled "The Language of Clay" at the Cambridge Art Center and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. One of Saarinen's private students at Cambridge was her cousin, Edie Sedgwick.
Saarinen died in Cohasset, Massachusetts, in 1995 at the age of 83.
The bulk of the collection was digitized in 2017 with funding provided by The Walton Family Foundation. Material not digitized includes blank pages of diaries, unannotated pages of engagement calendars, routine financial transactions, blank versos of photographs, and duplicates.
Material lent for microfilming is available on 35mm microfilm reels 1152 and 1192 at the Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
Biographical material consists of résumés and biographical sketches written by Saarinen, and a 1951 blueprint of the Eero Saarinen and Associates office building in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, labeled "July/54 Kiln data."
Series is scanned in entirety.
Blueprint, Eero Saarinen and Associates Office Building
Oversized material housed in OV 12
Resumes and Biographical Notes
Correspondence is arranged alphabetically. Correspondents who are represented by four or more items are housed in named files; all others are housed in general files for the corresponding letter of the alphabet.
Series is scanned in entirety.
Saarinen's correspondence files document her personal life and career. Incoming letters form the bulk of the series, but are interspersed with outgoing letters, often in the form of drafts handwritten by Saarinen. Personal correspondence includes letters written between Lilian and Eero Saarinen, which provide insight into their relationship during the 1940s and early 1950s, and their decision to divorce in 1953. These letters also reference professional projects, including Eero Saarinen's involvement in the design of the Antioch College residence halls. Other letters describe Saarinen's planning meetings for the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, and enclose sketches of his preliminary ideas for the project.
Many letters from Susan Hammond, Saarinen's mother, chronicle events in the Swann and Sedgwick families. Hammond frequently enclosed letters sent to her by others about Saarinen in her letters to Saarinen. Family correspondence includes letters from Saarinen's son, Eric, her sister Lucy Livingston Schwartz, letters from other members of the Swann family, and a letter from her cousin, Edie Sedgwick.
Letters which document Saarinen's professional life include correspondence with publishers and publications such as
Also found is correspondence with Caresse Crosby regarding the consignment of Saarinen's artwork to Gump's and other galleries in the 1940s, and referencing Crosby's
The series includes substantial correspondence with other artists and architects, many of whom were personal friends of Saarinen, including Merle Armitage, Walter Baermann, Alexander Calder, Charles and Ray Eames, Carl Koch, Henry Kreis, Carl Milles, Laszlo and Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, Robert Venturi, and Harry Weese. Also found is correspondence with the design firm Knoll Associates, Cranbrook Academy of Art directors and artists Soltan Sepeshy, Maija Grotell and Marianne Strengell, six letters from Loja Saarinen, and a telegram from Eliel Saarinen.
The bulk of the correspondence relating to Saarinen's sculpture commissions can be found in Series 5: Project Files, but related correspondence is scattered throughout this series.
Abernathy, J.T.
Arkell, John
Armitage, Merle and Elsa
A, General
Baldinger, Wallace S.
Bank of New York
Barns, Katrina McCormick
B, General
Calder, Alexander
Cavin, W. Brooks Jr.
Oversized material housed in OV 12
Congratulations/Thank You Letters for
Cranbrook Academy of Art (Maija Grotell, Zoltan Sepeshy, Marianne Strengell)
Crosby, Caresse (Crosby Gallery of Modern Art)
C, General
Danforth, Maija C.
D, General
Eames, Charles and Ray
Includes illustrated letters; oversized material housed in Box 8, Folder 1
English, Miller & Hockett
E, General
Falch, Hedi
F, General
Grandin, Isabella (Bella)
G, General
Hallowell, Johnny and Sis
Hammond, Susan and Paul
Hammond, Susan and Paul
Hammond, Susan and Paul
Hammond, Susan and Paul
Hammond, Susan and Paul
Hammond, Susan and Paul
Oversized material housed in Box 8, Folder 1
Hammond, Susan and Paul
Hammond, Susan and Paul
Hammond, Susan and Paul
Hammond, Susan and Paul
Oversized material housed in Box 8, Folder 1
Hammond, Susan and Paul
Hammond, Susan and Paul
One letter to Saarinen from 1974 encloses two photos of Lilian Swann Saarinen, circa 1935, and one photo of one of Saarinen's sculpture
Haskell, Helen
H, General
I, General
J, General
Kiaer, Herman S
Kline, Robert and Norma
Knoll Associates
Koch, Carl
Oversized material housed in OV 12
Kreis, Henry
K, General
Lambie, Roxane
Lambie, Roxane
Lambie, Roxane
Lambie, Roxane
Lambie, Roxane
Lambie, Roxane
Lambie, Roxane
Lander, E. W.
Laughlin, James (Jay)
Loth, David
Lueders, J. E.
Lütgerath, Hadwiga
L, General
Includes letter from Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Midtown Galleries
Oversized material housed in OV 12; includes sketches of exhibition layout
Milles, Carl
Moholy-Nagy, Laszlo and Sibyl
Moloney, James Clark
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Modern Art
M, General
Norton, Marthia
N, General
Otava Publishing Company
O, General
Perkins, Lawrence and Midge
Putnam, Brenda
P, General
Rathbone, Beatrice (Babs)
Reynal & Hitchcock, Inc.
Roach, Ellie (Ellie Worthyn)
Robinson, Maude
Root, Clark, Buckner & Ballantine
Rutgers University Press
R, General
Saarinen, Eero
Oversized material housed in Box 8, Folder 1
Saarinen, Eero
Saarinen, Eero
Saarinen, Eero
Oversized material housed in Box 8, Folder 1
Saarinen, Eero
Saarinen, Loja
Saunders, Louise and Silvia
Schwartz, Lucy Livingston
Includes photo of Swann Saarinen, circa June 1970
Stewart, Albert and Margaret
Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts
S, General: S.-Sec
S, General: Sed-Sw
S, Illegible
Thank You Letters from Children for
T, General
United States Post Office
Venturi, Robert
V, General
Includes one black and white and one color photo of a sculpture by Swann Saarinen
Weese, Harry
Weese, Harry
Weese, Harry E.
Winnetka Public Schools
W, General
Y-Z, General
Alice, Anna-Greta
Barbara, Ben, Bobbie
Oversized material housed in Box 8, Folder 1
Camilla, Casanova, Cavannas, Charles, Claus
Dorothy, Doda
Doda letter encloses childhood drawings by Swann Saarinen
Ed, Fran, Fred
Gardner, Greta, Herman, Hildy
Jack, Jean, Jeanne, Jessie, John
Oversized material housed in Box 8, Folder 1
Kenneth, Kiki, Kim, Louise
Margaret, Marilyn, Marjorie, Marlee, Mary
Nell, Norma, Olga
Pamela, Peter, Poppy, Prestin
R, Illegible, Roland, S, Illegible
T, Illegible, Tom, Val, William (Bill), Willy
Fragments of Letters from Lily Swann Saarinen
Illegible/Unidentified
Writings and notes document the writing and publication of Saarinen's
Also found are school writings from the 1920s-1930s; typescripts and handwritten drafts of Saarinen's memories of the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Eliel Saarinen, and the Saarinen family; and miscellaneous writings which include "Sculpture by American Soldiers" in which Saarinen drew on her 1945 experience teaching convalescent soldiers.
Series is scanned in entirety.
Anatomy Notebook
"Animals and War Machines" Book Ideas
"Animals and War Machines" Book Ideas
"Animals and War Machines" Book Idea, Preliminary Sketches
"Animals and War Machines" Book Idea, Preliminary Sketches
"Animals and War Machines" Book Idea, Preliminary Sketches
"Animals and War Machines" Book Idea, Preliminary Sketches
Oversized material housed in Box 8, Folder 2 and OV 13
"Miscellaneous Secret Thoughts and Writings of Mine"
Miscellaneous Writings
Miscellaneous Writings
Notes, Miscellaneous
Notes, Miscellaneous
Other Book Ideas
Artwork
Sketches, Hippos
Published Copy
"Quotations and Thoughts and Animal Records (in back) from Winter with Saunders"
Reminiscences about Eliel Saarinen for Nancy Rivard
Reminiscences about the Saarinen Family and Cranbrook Art Academy
School Writings
"Susie Sing All Day"
Oversized material housed in OV 14
"What is Mine?"
Correspondence
Notes
Notes
Notes and Typescripts
Original Artwork
Oversized material housed in Box 8, Folder 3 and OV 15
Photographs of Artwork
Oversized material housed in OVs 13 and 16
Proof
Sketches
Sketches
Sketches
Oversized material housed in Box 8, Folder 3
Sketches for Flyleaf
Artwork
Artwork
Artwork
Correspondence
Sketches and Notes
Sketches and Notes
Saarinen was a prolific journal writer and her diaries are in bound volume and loose leaf form. Bound diary volumes from 1930/1931 to 1942 document her life from her "coming out year" and continue through the early years of her marriage to Eero Saarinen. Her 1939 diary opens in Florence, Italy, in August 1939, days before Germany's invasion of Poland, and describes the tenuous situation the newlyweds found themselves in and their difficulties finding passage back to the United States. The diary labeled 1936 and 1937 also contains a series of entries for 1958-1959. Written on the page at the front of the 1939 December-1942 January is the inscription: "Diary-Cranbrook from Sept 1939 To:" and "The new Mrs. E. E. Saarinen!" but any original pages that existed from September-November are missing. The months August-October 1939 are included in the previous diary.
Loose diary entries, beginning around circa 1934 and continuing to 1953, with scattered additional entries in the 1950s-1970s, focus primarily on Saarinen's marriage to Eero Saarinen. They document in depth her emotional struggles as a working mother attempting to forge her own artistic identity, maintain a healthy family environment for her children, and support Eero Saarinen's growing international success, while not allowing that to stymie her own artistic ambitions. These folders include many handwritten notes and drafts of "letters" to Eero Saarinen which are journalistic in nature and include dream journals, "writings and ravings just before wedding," and notes found with her diaries.
Saarinen's engagement calendars are heavily annotated with notes documenting her professional appointments, progress on works of art and commissions, and Saarinen's leisure activities.
The bulk of this series has been scanned with the exception of blank pages of diaries and unannotated pages of engagement calendars.
Some of the diary entries within volumes are not strictly chronological and often do not occur in a linear fashion.
Addresses
Bound Diary Volume
Bound Diary Volume (1934-1935)
Bound Diary Volume (1934-1935)
Bound Diary Volume (1934-1935)
Bound Diary Volume (1934-1935), Miscellaneous Pages
Bound Diary Volume
Bound Diary Volume (1936-1937, 1958-1959)
Bound Diary Volume
Bound Diary Volume
Diary of Greece and the Dalmation Coast
Diary of Greece and the Dalmation Coast
Engagement Calendars
Engagement Calendars
Engagement Calendars
Engagement Calendars
Engagement Calendars
Engagement Calendars
Engagement Calendars
Engagement Calendars
Engagement Calendars
Engagement Calendars
Engagement Calendars
Engagement Calendars
Engagement Calendars
Engagement Calendars
Engagement Calendars
Engagement Calendars
Loose Diary Entries and Fragments
Oversized material housed in Box 8, Folder 4
Loose Diary Entries and Fragments
Loose Diary Entries and Fragments
Loose Diary Entries and Fragments
Loose Diary Entries and Fragments
Loose Diary Entries and Fragments
Loose Diary Entries and Fragments
Miscellaneous Fragments
Notes Found with Diaries
Notes Found with Diaries
Notes Found with Diaries
Notes Found with Diaries
Notes Found with Diaries
Notes Found with Diaries
Notes Found with Diaries
Notes Written Prior to Wedding
Project files are arranged alphabetically by name of project.
Project files document Saarinen's work on a variety of commissions including those for book cover designs, federal government buildings, post offices, schools and playgrounds (particularly the Crow Island School reliefs), companies such as KLM (then Royal Dutch Airlines), businesses such as Toffenetti's restaurant in Chicago, and private clients, including sister-in-law, Pipsan Saarinen. The majority of the projects documented here resulted in fully realized commissions for Saarinen, although several represent ideas and proposals.
Project files typically contain any and all of the following: correspondence and notes, many preliminary sketches, plans and blueprints, and photographs of artwork and project sites, with the bulk of the material being in the form of sketches. Sketches are primarily in graphite, although some are hand-colored with ink and/or paint.
Crow Island school sketches are arranged alphabetically by subject, primarily animals.
Series is scanned in entirety.
Addison Gallery, Hippo Sketches
Barn Dance
Barns, Katrina McCormick Sculpture
Bloomfield, Indiana, Post Office
Oversized material housed in Box 8, Folder 5
Book Cover for
Book Cover for
Book Ideas for Farrar & Rinehart
Carlisle, Kentucky, Post Office Sculpture, Correspondence
Carlisle, Kentucky, Post Office Sculpture, Sketches
Carlisle, Kentucky, Post Office Sculpture, Sketches
Carlisle, Kentucky, Post Office Sculpture, Sketches
Ceramic Pig
Oversized material housed in Box 8, Folder 6
Children's Magazine (
Children's Playground
Oversized material housed in Box 8, Folder 7 and OV 20
File List and Photographs
Oversized material housed in Box 8, folder 7
Anteater
Bear
Bull
Cow
Deer and Duck Bill
Elephant and Eero's Sketches
Oversized material housed in OV 17
Frog and Ferdinand
Glaze Records and Brick Sizes/Class Subjects
Horse
Indian Group (Squirrel, Owl, Horned Toad, Ram, Indians)
Lion and Mouse
Monkeys and Mowgli
Noah
Oversized material housed in OV 17
Opossum
Oversized material housed in OV 17
Pekingese and Pig
Prehistoric Animals
Oversized material housed in OV 17
Rabbit
Rikki Tikki Tavi
Oversized material housed in OV 17
Sloth and Squirrel
Weasel
Other Ideas, Costs, etc.
Cushion Ideas
Evanston, Illinois, Post Office
Evanston, Illinois, Post Office
Evanston, Illinois, Post Office
Oversized material housed in Box 8, Folder 8 and OV 18
Federal Trade Commission (Apex) Building, Washington D. C.
Federal Trade Commission (Apex) Building, Washington D. C.
Oversized material housed in Box 8, Folder 9
Gateway Arch, St. Louis, Missouri
Oversized material housed in Box 8, Folder 10
Harbor National Bank Clock
Harbor National Bank Clock
Harbor National Bank Clock
Oversized material housed in Box 8, Folder 11
KLM Airlines Sculpture, JFK Airport
Oversized material housed in Box 8, Folder 12 and OV 18
Museum of Modern Art Competition
Northland Center, Detroit, Michigan, Correspondence
Northland Center, Detroit, Michigan, Correspondence
Northland Center, Detroit, Michigan, Printed Material
Northland Center, Detroit, Michigan, Sketches and Photographs of Artwork
Oversized material housed in Box 8, Folder 13 and OV 18
Red Cross
Red Cross
Oversized material housed in Box 8, Folder 14
Rome Collaborative Ideas
Saarinen, Pipsan, Fireplace
Saarinen, Pipsan, Fireplace
Toffenetti's Restaurant, Chicago, Illinois, Correspondence
Toffenetti's Restaurant, Chicago, Illinois, Photographs
Includes photo of Saarinen working on sculpture; oversized material housed in Box 8, Folder 15 and OV 19
Toffenetti's Restaurant, Chicago, Illinois, Sketches
Toffenetti's Restaurant, Chicago, Illinois, Sketches and Metal Cut-Out
Oversized material housed in Box 8, Folder 15 and OV 19
Various Project Sketches
Oversized material housed in Box 8, Folder 16
War Department Competition
War Department Competition
War Department Competition
This series consists of three folders relating to a course Saarinen taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Cambridge Art Center entitled "The Language of Clay." Found are correspondence and memoranda, course descriptions, notes, and student rosters.
Series is scanned in entirety.
Language of Clay Course, Cambridge Art Center
Language of Clay Course, M. I. T.
Language of Clay Course, M. I. T.
Series consists of invoices and receipts for supplies and other art-related expenses, records of book royalties for
The bulk of this series has been scanned with the exception of routine financial records such as receipts.
Exhibition Sales and Expenses
Invoices and Receipts
Series includes announcements and catalogs for two Saarinen exhibitions, as well as some for other artists, many of which are annotated with comments by Saarinen stating her opinion of the artist featured. Also found are copies of a book jacket for
Printed material also includes a group of reference files of clippings, primarily featuring photos of animals, arranged alphabetically by animal, some news clippings about Saarinen and the Saarinen family, and a folder of news articles on miscellaneous subjects of interest to Saarinen.
Series is scanned in entirety.
Announcements and Catalogs, Saarinen
Announcements and Catalogs, Other Artists
Announcements and Catalogs, Other Artists
News Clippings
News Clippings About Saarinen and Family
Reference Material Index
Bats, Bears, Birds, Buffalo
Cats, Cougar
Deer, Donkeys
Dogs
Dogs
Dogs
Elephants, Elk, Flowers
Giant Pandas, Giraffes
Horses, Insects
Koala Bears, Lions
Mice, Monkeys, Mountain Goats
Okapi, Opossum
Pekingese, Pigs
Raccoons, Reptiles, Rhinoceroses, Squirrels
Tigers, Wolves, Woodchucks, Zebra, "Rare Beasts"
Series includes a family scrapbook of clippings about Saarinen's father, Dr. Arthur Swann, concerning his bee cures for rheumatism, as well as his marriage to Saarinen's mother, Susan Sedgwick.
The Saarinen scrapbook compiles letters, telegrams, news clippings, announcements and other printed material documenting Saarinen's career from 1935-1974.
Series is scanned in entirety.
Family Scrapbook
Saarinen Scrapbook
Oversized volume housed in Box 9, Folder 1
Artwork consists of Saarinen's sketches in graphite, crayon, ink, pastel, and watercolor that did not appear to be arranged as part of her project files. It includes early sketches dating from her childhood to her college years, and subsequent sketches from the 1940s-1960s, and illustrates her early and developing interest in animal subjects.
Sketches are primarily of animals such as eagles, lions and other cats (including the
One folder consists of six colored sketches of a Cambridge house by Mary L. Provost.
Series is scanned in entirety.
Abstract Sketches
Oversized material housed in Box 9, Folder 2 and OV 20
Anatomy Sketches
Oversized material housed in OV 20
Animal Prints
Animals, Various
Animals, Various
Oversized material housed in Box 9, Folder 3
Animals, Various
Animals, Various
Oversized material housed in Box 9, Folders 3-5, Box 10, Folders 1-2, and OVs 20, 21
Eagles
Eagles
Eagles
Eagles
Eagles
Eagles
Oversized material housed in Box 10, Folders 3-4, and OV 22
Horses
Horses
Oversized material housed in Box 10, Folder 5
Horses
Oversized material housed in Box 10, Folder 5
Lions and Other Cats
Oversized material housed in Box 10, Folder 6
Lions and Other Cats
Lions and Other Cats
Oversized material housed in Box 10, Folders 6 -7 and OVs 23-24
Pekingese
Pekingese
Pekingese
Oversized material housed in Box 10, Folder 8
Pelicans
Pelicans
Oversized material housed in Box 10, Folder 9
Polar Bear
Skunk
Squirrels
Striped Tiger Couple
Three-Toed Sloth
Figure and Head Sketches
Figure and Head Sketches
Oversized material housed in Box 10, Folders 10-12 and OV 25-26
Future Sculpture Ideas
Oversized material housed in Box 10, Folder 13
Jewelry Designs
Line Drawings
Mexico Trip Sketches
Mexico Trip Sketches
Miscellaneous Sketches and Notes
Miscellaneous Sketches and Notes
Oversized material housed in Box 10, Folder 14
Mowgli, Bagheera and Baloo Sketches
Oversized material housed in OV 27
"Sketch for Dead Chamois"
Drawings by Mary L. Provost of Cambridge House and Fabric
Photos of Saarinen and others include a negative of a photograph of Saarinen, possibly with Eero Saarinen, included with a 1977 letter of transmittal; a group photograph including Lilian, Eero and Eliel Saarinen with the model for the Detroit Civic Center; and a photo of an unidentified woman on a city street.
Photos of artwork by Saarinen include animal sculpture, head and figure sculpture, wood carvings, and Saarinen's Mowgli and Bagheera sculpture. Also found are photos by Betty Cooper of Saarinen's 1944 exhibition at G Place Gallery.
Series is scanned in entirety with the exception of blank versos of photographs and duplicates.
Photos of Saarinen and Others
Animals
Oversized material housed in OV 27
Figures and Heads
Oversized material housed in Box 11, Folder 3
Miscellaneous
Oversized material housed in Box 11, Folder 4
Wood Carvings for Garden Posts
Oversized material housed in Box 11, Folder 5
Photos of Exhibition Installation
Oversized material housed in Box 11, Folder 6