Biografie von Lilian Swann SAARINEN (1912-1995)

Addresses: NYC; Cambridge, MA

Profession: Sculptor

Studied: Heinz Warneke, Albert Stewart, Brenda Flutnam, Maija Grotell.

Exhibited: Soc. Indep. Artists, 1922; NAD, 1937; Huntington, 1937 (prize); NAWA, 1937 (prize), 1938, 1947 (prize); WFNY 1939; Midtown Gal., 1943 (solo); Wash., DC Art Fair, 1943 (prize); WMAA, 1945; PAFA Ann., 1945-47; Cranbrook Acad. A., 1946; MMA; BMA; AIC; Detroit IA (prize, 1954); Boston A. Festival, 1955; other museums and traveling exhs.

Work: bas-reliefs, fountains, USPO, Carlisle, Ky.; Bloomfield, Ind.; Crow Island Sch., Winnetka, Ill.; Tofanetti Restaurant, Chicago; Jefferson Nat. Expansion Mem., St. Louis, Mo.; Detroit Federal Reserve Bank; J.L. Hudson's Northland Shopping Center; IBM Coll.; many commissions for private homes and gardens.

Comments: Married to architect Eero Saarinen, she appears as Swann early in her career. Contributor to Architectural Forum; Arts & Architecture; Interiors; Child Life, and other leading magazines. Author:Who Am I?" "Who Helps Who?", 1946.

Sources: WW59; WW47; WW40 (as Swann); Falk, Exh. Record Series.