American Decorative Arts
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Designer: Eliel Saarinen, American, born Finland, 1873–1950

Design drawing for a knife

1929

Pencil

3 1/8 x 11 in. (7.938 x 27.94 cm)
John C. Waddell Collection, Gift of John C. Waddell, B.A. 1959
2010.158.26
Culture: 
American
Period: 
20th century
Classification: 
Works on Paper - Drawings and Watercolors
Geography: 
Made in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Status: 
By appointment
Provenance: 

John C. Waddell, New York, to 2010; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography: 

J. Stewart Johnson, American Modern, 1925–1940: Design for a New Age, exh. cat. (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2000), 44, ill.

John Stuart Gordon et al., A Modern World: American Design from the Yale University Art Gallery, 1920–1950 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2011), 259, no. 173a.

“Acquisitions,” https://artgallery.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Pub_Bull_acquisitions_2011.pdf (accessed March 1, 2012).

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.