Oral history interview with Marianne Strengell
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 4 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 7 digital wav files. Duration is 4 hr., 5 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Strengell, Marianne, 1909-1998
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
label: Names
content: Cranbrook Academy of Art
label: Names
content: Bertoia, Harry
label: Names
content: Eames, Charles
label: Names
content: Knoll, Florence, 1917-2019
label: Names
content: Saarinen, Eliel, 1873-1950
label: Names
content: Saarinen, Loja
topic: label: Occupation
content: Weavers -- Massachusetts -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Educators -- Massachusetts -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Textile designers -- Massachusetts -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Decorative arts
label: Topic
content: Women textile designers
label: Topic
content: Women educators
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: Strengell, Marianne, 1909-1998
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Marianne Strengell (1909-1998) was a weaver, textile designer, and educator.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 86 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1982 January 8-December 16
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.streng82
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Marianne Strengell conducted 1982 January 8-1982 December 16, by Robert F. Brown, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Strengell speaks of colleagues and students at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, including Eliel and Loja Saarinen, Charles Eames, Florence Knoll, and Harry Bertoia. She also speaks of her training in hand weaving in Helsinki; her interest in texture and new materials; the rejection of vogue in Scandinavia in the 1930s for folk art motifs; her close association with the Saarinen family at Cranbrook and in Finland; and her work with industry, 1940s-1970s.