Knife

Designer: Eliel Saarinen (American, born Finland, 1873–1950)
Manufacturer: International Silver Company (American, founded 1898)

1929

American Decorative Arts

On view, 3rd floor, Modern and Contemporary Art and Design
Medium

Silver

Dimensions

L. 9 1/4 in. (23.5 cm), 4 oz., 3 dwt. (129 gm)

Credit Line

John C. Waddell Collection, Gift of John C. Waddell, B.A. 1959

Accession Number

2010.158.27

Geography

Manufactured in Meriden, Connecticut

Designed in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

Culture

American

Period

20th century

Classification

Flatware

Disclaimer

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 records is ongoing.

Provenance
International Silver Company, Meriden, Conn., 1929-ca. 1985; transferred to Ronald Saarinen Swanson, Bloomfield Hills, Mich., ca. 1985-99; John C. Waddell, New York, 1999-2010; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • John Stuart Gordon, "Curator's Eye," Modern Magazine 3, no. 3 (May 2011), 96, ill.
  • "Acquisitions," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin: Online Supplement (accessed March 1, 2012), 15
  • 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), 258–59, no. 173
  • J. Stewart Johnson, American Modern, 1925–1940: Design for a New Age, exh. cat. (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2000), 44, ill.
  • W. Scott Braznell, "The Advent of Modern American Silver," Antiques 125 (January 1984), 240, fig. 6
  • Karen Davies, "Tastemaking in America: The Birth of Mass Design," Industrial Design 30, no. 6 (November/December 1983), 35, ill.
  • Arthur J. Pulos, American Design Ethic: A History of Industrial Design (Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1983), ill.
  • Albert William Christ-Janer, Eliel Saarinen: Finnish-American Architect and Educator (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979), 119
  • American Federation of Arts, Decorative Metalwork and Cotton Textiles, exh. cat. (Portland, Maine: Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1930), no. 385
  • Lee McCann, "Sterling Silver, 1929: Part II," Country Life (June 1929), 56
  • "Modern Art in Silver," National Jeweler (April 1929), 77–78
  • "Modern Art Expressed in Silver," Jewelers' Circular (March 7, 1929), 55
  • Ely Jacques Kahn, The Architect and the Industrial Arts, exh. cat. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1929), 61, ill.
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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