SUPPORT THE WRIGHT LIBRARY PROCEEDS FROM EVERY SALE GOES TO SUPPORT THE WRIGHT LIBRARY. CLICK TO ORDER.         WE PROUDLY SUPPORT THE FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT FOUNDATION       WE PROUDLY SUPPORT THE FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT BUILDING CONSERVANCY     WE PROUDLY SUPPORT FALLINGWATER AND THE WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY   PRAIRIE SCHOOL   Date: Circa 1964 Title: "Frank Lloyd Wright And The Prairie School Architects. Exhibition & Home Tour, Sunday, October 11, (Circa 1964), Unity Church - Oak Park, ILL." Description: A brochure for an exhibition at Unity Church and a tour of homes in Oak Park. Inside spread is a map of the Oak Park area locating homes by, Frank Lloyd Wright, George Maher, John Van Bergen, Guenzel & Drummond, Talmadge & Watson and Purcell & Elmslie. Note: During the early 1960s, Unity Temple was called Unity Church. (Brochure published by Prairie School Press, Chicago) Gift of Greg Brewer. Size: 8.5 x 11. Pages: Pp 3 S#: 1596.57.0516     Date: 1964 Title: "Walter Burley Griffin" Description: A broadside for "Walter Burley Griffin" by James Birrell, published by University of Queensland Press, $11.75. "With a foreword by Robin Boyd and 113 illustrations. Perhaps it is not surprising that Walter Burley Griffin’s name lay forgotten in Australia until Canbarra’s fiftieth anniversary. He has, after all, been forgotten by most of the world, and, even in his native country, the United States, his fame is only a faint memory. And yet, as Robin Boyd points out in his delightful Foreword to this book: ‘He was a great pioneer of modern architecture in his own right, the equal of Wright in many ways capable of outstanding brilliance in conception when the occasion permitted...’ " (Broadside published by Prairie School Press, Chicago) Gift of Greg Brewer. Size: 8.5 x 14 Pages: Pp 1 S#: 1596.59.0516     Date: 1975 Title: Prairie School Architecture. Studies from ‘The Western Architect’ (Hard Cover) Published by University of Toronto Press, Toronto and Buffalo) Author: Brooks, H. Allen Description: "The Western Architect, published in Minneapolis between 1902 and 1931, was the only journal to document extensively the architecture of the Prairie School..." Reprints sections include: Frank Lloyd Wright; Griffin; Purcell, Feick & Elmslie; Maher; Drummond; Van Bergen; Tallmadge & Watson and Sullivan, and an introduction for each. Chapter 1: "City National Bank of Mason City, Iowa." December 1911. Includes eight photographs and the floor plan (Sweeney 102). Chapter 13: "Louis Henry Sullivan, Beloved Master," by Frank Lloyd Wright. June, 1924 (Sweeney 163). Signed by the author. (First Edition)  Size: 7.75 x 10.25 Pages: Pp 333 S#: 0102.03.0317, 0163.01.0317     Date: 1983 Title: Prairie School Architecture. Studies from ‘The Western Architect’ (Soft Cover) Published by Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York, Cincinnati, Toronto, London, Melbourne. First published in 1975 by University of Toronto Press) Author: Brooks, H. Allen Description: "The Western Architect, published in Minneapolis between 1902 and 1931, was the only journal to document extensively the architecture of the Prairie School..." Reprints sections include: Frank Lloyd Wright; Griffin; Purcell, Feick & Elmslie; Maher; Drummond; Van Bergen; Tallmadge & Watson and Sullivan, and an introduction for each. Chapter 1: "City National Bank of Mason City, Iowa." December 1911. Includes eight photographs and the floor plan. Chapter 13: "Louis Henry Sullivan, Beloved Master," by Frank Lloyd Wright. June, 1924. Original list price $15.50. (First Paperback Edition.) Size: 8.25 x 11 Pages: Pp 333 ST#: 1983.36.1215     Date: 1975 Title: The Prairie School: Frank Lloyd Wright & His Midwest Contemporaries (Hard Cover DJ) (Published by the University of Toronto Press, Toronto and Buffalo) Author: Brooks, H. Allen Description: First published in 1972, This reprint 1975. "The Prairie School was a regional manifestation of the international revolt and reform which occurred in the visual arts during the early years of the century., Inspired by Louis Sullivan and given guidance and prominence by Frank Lloyd Wright, the members of the movement sought to achieve a fresh and original architectural expression." (Dust Jacket.) (Second Edition) (Sweeney 1869) Size: 8.75 x 8.75 Pages: Pp 373 S#: 1869.02.1117     Date: 1976 Title: The Prairie School: Frank Lloyd Wright and His Midwest Contemporaries (Soft Cover) (Published by W. W. Norton & Company, New York, London) Author: Brooks, H. Allen Description: First published in 1972 by the University of Toronto Press. "The Prairie School was a regional manifestation of the international revolt and reform which occurred in the visual arts during the early years of the century. Inspired by Louis Sullivan and given guidance and prominence by FLW, the members of the movement sought to achieve a fresh and original architectural expression." (Back Cover). Original cover price $14.95. (Fifth Edition)  (Sweeney 1869) Size: 8.5 x 8.5 Pages: Pp 373 S#: 1869.05.0701     Date: 1976 Title: The Prairie School: Frank Lloyd Wright and His Midwest Contemporaries (Soft Cover) (Published by W. W. Norton & Company, New York, London) Author: Brooks, H. Allen Description: First published in 1972 by the University of Toronto Press. "The Prairie School was a regional manifestation of the international revolt and reform which occurred in the visual arts during the early years of the century. Inspired by Louis Sullivan and given guidance and prominence by FLW, the members of the movement sought to achieve a fresh and original architectural expression." (Back Cover). Original cover price $17.95. (Seventh Edition)  (Sweeney 1869) Size: 8.5 x 8.5 Pages: Pp 373 S#: 1869.07.0407     Date: 1996 Title: The Prairie School: Frank Lloyd Wright and His Midwest Contemporaries (Soft Cover) (Published by W. W. Norton & Company, New York, London) Author: Brooks, H. Allen Description: First published in 1972 by the University of Toronto Press. First published as a Norton paperback in 1976. Republished in 1996. "One of the most original and dynamic developments in American architecture, the Prairie School was a regional manifestation of the international revolt and reform which occurred in the visual arts during the early years of the century. Inspired by Louis Sullivan and given guidance and prominence by Frank Lloyd Wright, the members of the movement sought to achieve a fresh and original architectural expression." (Back Cover). Original cover price $22.50. (First Edition)  (Sweeney 1869) Size: 8.5 x 8.5 Pages: Pp 373 ST#: 1996.63.0510     Date: 1977 Title: The Prairie School in Iowa (Soft Cover) (Published by The Iowa State University Press, Ames, Iowa) Author: Wilson, Richard Guy; Robinson, Sidney K. Description: Introduction: "Thoroughly saturated with the spirit of the prairie," is how Frank Lloyd Wright described his work in 1903. Nestled in the broad flat landscape of the Midwest are buildings that are part of the region, that belong. In the history of art and architecture, regional styles have been one of the more creative and fascinating attempts by people to project their own identities. The Prairie School style of the midwestern United States is one example, founded very directly on the climate, land forms, and life-style of the region. Its uniqueness is unquestioned; the buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Sullivan, and their followers are recognized as important contributions to contemporary architecture and art. Beginning in the Chicago suburbs and small prairie towns, the Prairie School has influenced developments worldwide from the Netherlands to Australia.        Chronologically the Prairie School has two distinct and separate periods. The first was in the Chicago area in the latter 1890s. It spread across the Midwest and ultimately to other parts of the country and overseas in the first two decades of the twentiety century, finally ceasing in the late 1920s. After a hiatus, Frank Lloyd Wright, who had removed himself from the scene in 1909, returned in the mid-1930s with renewed creative energy. The second period is more national in scope, with Wright designing buildings from California to New Hampshire, but still the Midwest was his focus...        Includes the work of Frank Lloyd Wright in Iowa. Size: 8 x 10 Pages: Pp 127 S#: 2033.35.0124     Date: 1982 Title: Country and Suburban Homes of the Prairie School Period  (Published by Dover Publications, Inc. New York)  (Soft Cover) Author: von Holst, Hermann Valentin Description: First published in 1913 as “Modern American Homes” by American Technical Society, Chicago.  Originally as 108 plates with 424 photographs and floor plans.  Includes two Wright homes, four photographs.  Original Dover cover price $5.95.  (First Edition) Size: 8.75 x 12 Pages: Pp 123 ST#: 1982.30.0307     Date: 1984 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright and The Prairie School  (Soft Cover) Author: Brooks, Allen Description: Original SC List Price $14.95. (Fourth Edition) Size: Pages: Pp 120 ST#: 1984.03.0199     Date: 1985 Title: The Prairie School Tradition. The Prairie Archives of the Milwaukee Art Center.  (Published by Whitney Library of Design, an imprint of Watson-Guptill Publications, New York) Author: Spencer, Brian A. Description: Based on a major architectural exhibition held at the Milwaukee Art Center in the fall of 1977 "An American Architecture: Its Roots, Growth and Horizon". Includes a large section on Wright and those he influenced, as well as the work of those that worked for Wright.  First published as a Hard Cover in 1979.  Listed as a First Edition Soft Cover. Original Cover Price $19.95. (First Edition) Size: 9 x 12 Pages: Pp 304 ST#: 1985.27.0207     Date: 1986 Title: A Prairie House Pilgrimage. The Committee for Art at Stanford. June 20-29, 1986. Description: Brochure for a tour by Stanford University of Prairie homes and building in Chicago and Wisconsin. Tour of buildings related to Wright includes: Rookery Building Lobby, Wright’s Home and Studio and nearby homes, Unity Temple, Coonley Residence, Johnson Wax Building, Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, Jacobs I, Unitarian Church, Taliesin Spring Green, etc. Includes three illustrations. Gift from Kathryn Smith. Size: 8.5 x 3.5 Pages: Pp 4 ST#: 1986.39.0711     Date: 1995 Title: The Prairie School: Design Vision for the Midwest Author: Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Studies. Foreword by Robert Twombly Description: Emerging in Chicago around 1900, the Prairie School was an architectural movement inspired by the flat, expansive landscape of the Midwest. This special issue serves as a fine introduction to this widely influential movement. Featured are superb works by Prairie School architects and designers, including furniture, decorative arts, drawings, building fragments, and rare books and documents. Informative entries discuss objects in the museum's departments of architecture and American arts, as well as in its Ryerson and Burnham Libraries. Also included are essays on Frank Lloyd Wright, the guiding master of the Prairie School, and architect Marion Mahony Griffin, as well as an introduction by historian Robert Twombly.  (First Edition) Size: Pages: Pp 192 ST#: 1995.13.0102     Date: 1998 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie  (Hard Cover - DJ) Author: Birk, Melanie Description: Original HC List Price $18.95. (First Edition) Size: Pages: Pp 80 ST#: 1998.11.0901     Date: 1999 Title: Prairie Style: Houses and Gardens by Frank Lloyd Wright and Prairie School   (Hard Cover - DJ)  (Published by Archetype Press, Inc., Washington D.C., Stewart, Tabori & Chang, New York) Author: Legler, Dixie Description: Original HC List Price $45.00. (First Edition) Size: Pages: Pp 209 ST#: 1999.15.1201     Date: 2000 Title: Progressive Design in the Midwest, The Purcell-Cutts House and the Prairie School Collection at The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Soft Cover) (Published by University of Minnesota Press and The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota) Author: Olivarez, Jennifer Koman; Assistance of Wegener, Corine A. Description: Built by William Gray Purcell and George Grant Elmslie in Minneapolis in 1913, the Purcell-Cutts house features a buff-colored facade, nearly flat roof, floor-to-ceiling art glass windows, and a revolutionary interior structured around an open floor plan, facilitating everyday living without the senseless division of space. Progressive Design in the Midwest documents the house and its furnishings from the year it was built to the time it was donated to the museum, restored, and opened to the public in 1990. The many objects in the Institute's Prairie school collection, including works by Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, William Gray Purcell, and George Grant Elmslie, among others... (Publisher’s description.) Includes many items by Frank Lloyd Wright, pp82-107. (First Edition) Size: 9.5 x 9.5 Pages: Pp 199 ST#: 2000.72.1215     Date: 2001 Title: Prairie Style  (Hard Cover - DJ)   (Published by Friedman/Fairfax) Author: Skolnik, Lisa Description: Original HC List Price $17.95.  (First Edition) Size: Pages: Pp 96 ST#: 2001.25.0203     Date: 2002 Title: Wood / Wright, Little Houses on the Prairie (Soft Cover) Author: Behrens, Roy Description: (First Edition) Size: Pages: Pp 11 ST#: 2002.30.0702     Date: 2006 Title: Purcell & Elmslie, Prairie Progressive Architects (Hard Cover DJ) (Published by Gibbs Smith Publisher, Layton, Utah) Author: Gebhard, David; Edited by Gebhard, Patricia Description: Explores the work of two important members of the organic architecture movement, and celebrates their tremendously important contributions to American architecture and the Prairie School. Wishing to return to simplicity and honesty, Purcell and Elmslie created homes and buildings that were consistent with a democratic society-simple forms, the natural use of textural materials and decoration, and buildings that accommodated the nature of a site. As did Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright, Purcell and Elmslie held the conviction that a building does not end with its simple structure, but reaches its final and logical culmination in the clothing-color, situation and natural environment, together with its decoration of glass, terra-cotta, and other textural materials. (Publishers description.) Wright is mentioned throughout this book. Original hard cover list price $29.95. Size: 9 x 10.25 Pages: Pp 192 ST#: 2006.28.0909             COOPER-HEWITT NEWSLETTER     Date: 1983 Title: Cooper-Hewitt Newsletter - Summer 1983 (Published by the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Design, New York) Author: Taylor, Lisa (Director) Description: 1) "Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School... The Cooper-Hewitt pays tribute to Wright’s creative genius with the exhibition Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School. Included in the exhibition are drawings, furniture, lams, windows, sculpture, prints, photographs, and decorative objects designed by Wright and his associates from the early 1890s to 1930..." Held August 30, 1983 to January 1. 2) Recent Acquisitions... "the museum purchased 37 drawings by Frank Lloyd Wright and his associate George M. Niedecken. The drawings are of the Henry J. Allen residence in Wichita, Kansas..." Includes two illustrations related to Wright. Gift from Kathryn Smith. Size: 8.5 x 11 Pages: Pp 8 ST#: 1983.39.0616

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