Artwork
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Saarinen, Lilian Swann, 1912-1995
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content: Lilian Swann Saarinen papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.7 Linear Feet (Boxes 6-7, 9-10, OVs 20-27)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1920s-circa 1960s
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.saarlili, Series 10
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Series is scanned in entirety.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: 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 Jungle Book character Bagheera), horses, Pekingese dogs, pelicans, and squirrels. Also found are sketches of various other animals including buffalo, bulls, calves, cats, dogs, goats, lambs, and pigs; anatomy and figure sketches; and a series of sketches executed on a trip to Mexico in 1938. 

One folder consists of six colored sketches of a Cambridge house by Mary L. Provost.