Eero Saarinen travel sketches to Florence Knoll Bassett, 1935 or 1936

Physical Details: Note : 4 p. : handwritten, ill. ; 27 x 21 cm.

Sender: Eero Saarinen (1910-1961)

Recipient: Florence Knoll Bassett (1917-)

Description: Saarinen describes his skiing vacation to Bassett using sketches with brief captions or notes: first of the journey to the mountains, by train and horse-drawn sleigh; next of skiing; next of a Finnish bath and people asleep in a lodge; last a landscape, a "filmstrip" of his friend Marianne tumbling down the mountainside, and the comically gruesome result of her fall.

Forms part of: Florence Knoll Bassett papers, 1932-2000

Rights Statement: Current copyright status is undetermined

Citation: Eero Saarinen travel sketches to Florence Knoll Bassett, 1935 or 1936. Florence Knoll Bassett papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

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Digital ID: 12187

Subjects:

• Travel sketches
• Vacations

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