Oral history interview with Lilian Swann Saarinen
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 3 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 4 digital wav files. Duration is 3 hr., 40 min.
label: General
content: Audio quality varies greatly in this interview. Tape speed and volume are uneven.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Saarinen, Lilian Swann, 1912-1995
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
label: Names
content: Cranbrook Academy of Art
label: Names
content: Archipenko, Alexander, 1887-1964
label: Names
content: Warneke, Heinz (Heinrich), 1895-1983
topic: label: Topic
content: Sculptors -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: 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.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Saarinen, Lilian Swann, 1912-1995
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Lilian Swann Saarinen (1912-1995) was a sculptor from Cambridge, Mass.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 93 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1979-1981
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.saarin79
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript available on line.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: 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.
label: Scope and Contents
content: 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.