Eliel Saarinen

[Finnish-born American Designer and Architect, 1873-1950]

• Relationships:	Father of Eero Saarinen.
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Museums and Public Art Galleries:

Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW!
2 works online

Eliel Saarinen at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Prototype Tea Service, ca.1933-35 (Zoom)

Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
3 works by or related to the artist

Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Coffee Urn and Tray, ca.1933-34

Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Info about the museums's Saarinen House and Garden

National Library of Australia, Canberra

The British Museum, London, UK NEW!

Smithsonian Institution Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)

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Mary Ann Sullivan's Digital Imaging Project
First Christian Church

Mary Ann Sullivan's Digital Imaging Project
Cranbrook Academy

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Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

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