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333.
NJN: Smithsonian Gallery of Art [competition], Washington, DC: Photographs of model

Creator:
From the Collection: Saarinen, Eero, 1910-1961
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 593
Container / Volume:
Box 677, folder 103
Image Count:
1
Description:
Eero Saarinen, assisted by a team including Charles Eames and Ralph Rapson, took the lead in designing Saarinen, Swanson, and Saarinen's entry in this two-part competition, sponsored by the 1939 Smithsonian Gallery of Art Commission, for a building on the Mall. The new building was to sit directly opposite John Russell Pope's classical National Gallery of Art, still under construction. The firm won first place, out of a field of 408 entrants, with a scheme calling for an asymmetrical composition of one- to four-story volumes clad in marble with metal trim. The commission was chaired by city planner Frederic A. Delano and composed of architects Walter Gropius, John A. Holabird, George Howe, and Henry R. Shepley, with Joseph Hudnut serving as professional adviser and Thomas D. Mabry, executive director of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, as technical adviser. An oversize mounted photograph of the project model is the only documentation for this project in the collection.
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives > Eero Saarinen collection (MS 593) > Series IV: Project Records > NJN: Smithsonian Gallery of Art [competition], Washington, DC: Photographs of model

338.
Negatives: Existing site conditions #1 - #69; other negatives; transparencies

Creator:
From the Collection: Saarinen, Eero, 1910-1961
Published / Created:
Circa 1950, 1960-1961, undated
Call Number:
MS 593
Container / Volume:
Box 455, folder 1256 - 1257
Image Count:
2
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives > Eero Saarinen collection (MS 593) > Series IV: Project Records > Job 5802: Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, St. Louis, MO > Photographs > Negatives: Existing site conditions #1 - #69; other negatives; transparencies