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SATERDAY REVIEW SCRIBNER'S SMITHSONIAN NEW REPUBLICBOOK DIGEST MAGAZINE Date: 1979
Title: Book Digest Magazine - July 1979 (Published by the Book Digest Company, New York)
Author: Tafel, Edgar
Description: Excerpts from "Apprentice to Genius, Years with Frank Lloyd Wright" Tafel, 1979. Fall, 1935. Taliesin, Wisconsin: Come along, E. J. We’re ready for you, boomed Mr. Wright into the hand cranked telephone. The call was from Pittsburgh and E. J. was Edgar J. Kaufmann, Sr., department store president. Mr. Wright was to show him the first sketches for his new house, "Fallingwater." I looked across my drafting table at the apprentice in front of me, Bob Mosher, who's back had already stiffened at the words. Ready? There wasn't one line drawn. Kaufman, and important client, coming to see plans for his house, and was Mr. Wright still caring the design confidently around in his head? Mr. Wright had visited the site to help select the appropriate spot on a 2,000-acre piece of family land 60 miles south of Pittsburgh. After much walking, according to Mr. Wright he asked, "E. J., where do you like to sit?" And E. J. pointed to a massive rock who's crest commanded a view over a waterfall and down into a glen. That spot, Mr. Kaufmann's stone seat, was to become the heart and hearthstone of the most famous house of the twentieth century... Includes 10 photographs. Original cover price $1.50.
Size: 5.4 x 7.4
Pages: Pp 122-142
ST#: 1979.43.0519CAXTONIAN Date: 1898 Title: The Caxton Club. Officers, Committees, Constitution and By-Laws, Annual Reports, List of Members. (Hard Cover) (Published by The Caxton Club, Art Institute Building, Chicago. 300 copies printed on a cream laid paper with a L.L. Brown Paper Company watermark by R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. At the Lakeside Press, Chicago. Top edge trimmed, others uncut.)
Author: Caxton Club
Description: The Caxton Club was founded in 1895 by fifteen Chicago bibliophiles who desired to support the publication of fine books in the spirit of the prevailing Arts and Crafts Movement. The founders were collectors, publishers, designers, and librarians. Their primary objective was to publish books of quality, both in content and design, primarily for their own personal libraries. In addition to the subjects mentioned in the title, this volume also includes: Address of the President; Report of the Secretary; Treasurer’s Report; Publications; Exhibitions; House Committee; Librarian; and a list of Members. Members included Francis F. Browne, Daniel Burnham, R. R. Donnelley, Herbert S. Stone, Irving W. Way, Chauncey Williams and William Winslow. (First Edition)
Size: 4.5 x 7.5
Pages: Pp 83
S#: 0032.17.1215
Date: 1900 Title: The Caxton Club. Officers, Committees, Constitution and By-Laws, Annual Reports, List of Members. (Hard Cover) (Published by The Caxton Club, Fine Arts Building, Chicago. 300 copies printed on a cream laid paper with a L.L. Brown Paper Company watermark by R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. At the Lakeside Press, Chicago. Top edge trimmed, others uncut.)
Author: Caxton Club
Description: The Caxton Club was founded in 1895 by fifteen Chicago bibliophiles who desired to support the publication of fine books in the spirit of the prevailing Arts and Crafts Movement. The founders were collectors, publishers, designers, and librarians. Their primary objective was to publish books of quality, both in content and design, primarily for their own personal libraries. In addition to the subjects mentioned in the title, this volume also includes: Address of the President; Report of the Secretary; Treasurer’s Report; Publications; Exhibitions; House Committee; Librarian; and a list of Members. Members included Francis F. Browne, Daniel Burnham, Robert Todd Lincoln, Herbert S. Stone, Irving W. Way and Chauncey Williams.
Size: 4.5 x 7.5
Pages: Pp 101
S#: 0041.19.1215
Date: 1901 Title: The Caxton Club. Officers, Committees, Constitution and By-Laws, Annual Reports, List of Members. (Hard Cover) (Published by The Caxton Club, Fine Arts Building, Chicago. 300 copies printed on a cream laid paper with a L.L. Brown Paper Company watermark by R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. At the Lakeside Press, Chicago. Top edge trimmed, others uncut.)
Author: Caxton Club
Description: The Caxton Club was founded in 1895 by fifteen Chicago bibliophiles who desired to support the publication of fine books in the spirit of the prevailing Arts and Crafts Movement. The founders were collectors, publishers, designers, and librarians. Their primary objective was to publish books of quality, both in content and design, primarily for their own personal libraries. In addition to the subjects mentioned in the title, this volume also includes: Address of the President; Report of the Secretary; Treasurer’s Report; Publications; Exhibitions; House Committee; Librarian; and a list of Members. Members included Francis F. Browne, Daniel Burnham, Robert Todd Lincoln, Herbert S. Stone, Irving W. Way and Chauncey Williams.
Size: 4.5 x 7.5
Pages: Pp 103
S#: 0049.10.1215
Date: 1902 Title: The Caxton Club. Officers, Committees, Constitution and By-Laws, Annual Reports, List of Members. (Hard Cover) (Published by The Caxton Club, Fine Arts Building, Chicago. 300 copies printed on a cream laid paper with a L.L. Brown Paper Company watermark by R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. At the Lakeside Press, Chicago. Top edge trimmed, others uncut.)
Author: Caxton Club
Description: The Caxton Club was founded in 1895 by fifteen Chicago bibliophiles who desired to support the publication of fine books in the spirit of the prevailing Arts and Crafts Movement. The founders were collectors, publishers, designers, and librarians. Their primary objective was to publish books of quality, both in content and design, primarily for their own personal libraries. In addition to the subjects mentioned in the title, this volume also includes: Address of the President; Report of the Secretary; Treasurer’s Report; Publications; Exhibitions; House Committee; Librarian; and a list of Members. Members included Francis F. Browne, Robert Todd Lincoln, Ralph Fletcher Seymour, Herbert S. Stone, Irving W. Way and Chauncey Williams.
Size: 4.5 x 7.5
Pages: Pp 105
S#: 0052.11.1215
Date: 1903 Title: The Caxton Club. Officers, Committees, Constitution and By-Laws, Annual Reports, List of Members. (Hard Cover) (Published by The Caxton Club, Fine Arts Building, Chicago. 300 copies printed on a cream laid paper with a L.L. Brown Paper Company watermark by R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. At the Lakeside Press, Chicago. Top edge trimmed, others uncut.)
Author: Caxton Club
Description: The Caxton Club was founded in 1895 by fifteen Chicago bibliophiles who desired to support the publication of fine books in the spirit of the prevailing Arts and Crafts Movement. The founders were collectors, publishers, designers, and librarians. Their primary objective was to publish books of quality, both in content and design, primarily for their own personal libraries. In addition to the subjects mentioned in the title, this volume also includes: Address of the President; Report of the Secretary; Treasurer’s Report; Publications; Exhibitions; House Committee; Librarian; and a list of Members. Members included Francis F. Browne, Daniel Burnham, Robert Todd Lincoln, Ralph Fletcher Seymour, Herbert S. Stone, Irving W. Way and Chauncey Williams.
Size: 4.5 x 7.5
Pages: Pp 109
S#: 0054.10.1215
Date: 1904 Title: The Caxton Club. Officers, Committees, Constitution and By-Laws, Annual Reports, List of Members. (Hard Cover) (Published by The Caxton Club, Fine Arts Building, Chicago. 300 copies printed on a cream laid paper with a L.L. Brown Paper Company watermark by R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. At the Lakeside Press, Chicago. Top edge trimmed, others uncut.)
Author: Caxton Club
Description: The Caxton Club was founded in 1895 by fifteen Chicago bibliophiles who desired to support the publication of fine books in the spirit of the prevailing Arts and Crafts Movement. The founders were collectors, publishers, designers, and librarians. Their primary objective was to publish books of quality, both in content and design, primarily for their own personal libraries. In addition to the subjects mentioned in the title, this volume also includes: Address of the President; Report of the Secretary; Treasurer’s Report; Publications; Exhibitions; House Committee; Librarian; and a list of Members. Members included Francis F. Browne, Daniel Burnham, Robert Todd Lincoln, Ralph Fletcher Seymour, Herbert S. Stone, Irving W. Way and Chauncey Williams.
Size: 4.5 x 7.5
Pages: Pp 121
S#: 0055.08.1215
Date: 1905 Title: The Caxton Club. Officers, Committees, Constitution and By-Laws, Annual Reports, List of Members. (Hard Cover) (Published by The Caxton Club, Fine Arts Building, Chicago. 300 copies printed on a cream laid paper with a L.L. Brown Paper Company watermark by R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. At the Lakeside Press, Chicago. Top edge trimmed, others uncut.)
Author: Caxton Club
Description: The Caxton Club was founded in 1895 by fifteen Chicago bibliophiles who desired to support the publication of fine books in the spirit of the prevailing Arts and Crafts Movement. The founders were collectors, publishers, designers, and librarians. Their primary objective was to publish books of quality, both in content and design, primarily for their own personal libraries. In addition to the subjects mentioned in the title, this volume also includes: Address of the President; Report of the Secretary; Treasurer’s Report; Publications; Exhibitions; House Committee; Librarian; and a list of Members. Members included Francis F. Browne, Daniel Burnham, Robert Todd Lincoln, Ralph Fletcher Seymour, Herbert S. Stone and Irving W. Way.
Size: 4.5 x 7.5
Pages: Pp 111
S#: 0058.12.1215
Date: 1906 Title: The Caxton Club. Officers, Committees, Constitution and By-Laws, Annual Reports, List of Members. (Hard Cover) (Published by The Caxton Club, Fine Arts Building, Chicago. 300 copies printed on a cream laid paper with a L.L. Brown Paper Company watermark by R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. At the Lakeside Press, Chicago. Top edge trimmed, others uncut.)
Author: Caxton Club
Description: The Caxton Club was founded in 1895 by fifteen Chicago bibliophiles who desired to support the publication of fine books in the spirit of the prevailing Arts and Crafts Movement. The founders were collectors, publishers, designers, and librarians. Their primary objective was to publish books of quality, both in content and design, primarily for their own personal libraries. In addition to the subjects mentioned in the title, this volume also includes: Address of the President; Report of the Secretary; Treasurer’s Report; Publications; Exhibitions; House Committee; Librarian; and a list of Members. Members included Francis F. Browne, Daniel Burnham, Robert Todd Lincoln, Ralph Fletcher Seymour and Herbert S. Stone.
Size: 4.5 x 7.5
Pages: Pp 115
S#: 0064.18.1215
Date: 1907 Title: The Caxton Club. Officers, Committees, Constitution and By-Laws, Annual Reports, List of Members. (Hard Cover) (Published by The Caxton Club, Fine Arts Building, Chicago. 300 copies printed on a cream laid paper with a L.L. Brown Paper Company watermark by R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. At the Lakeside Press, Chicago. Paper weight is a bit lighter than years past. Top edge trimmed, others uncut.)
Author: Caxton Club
Description: The Caxton Club was founded in 1895 by fifteen Chicago bibliophiles who desired to support the publication of fine books in the spirit of the prevailing Arts and Crafts Movement. The founders were collectors, publishers, designers, and librarians. Their primary objective was to publish books of quality, both in content and design, primarily for their own personal libraries. In addition to the subjects mentioned in the title, this volume also includes: Address of the President; Report of the Secretary; Treasurer’s Report; Publications; Exhibitions; House Committee; Librarian; and a list of Members. Members included Francis F. Browne, Daniel Burnham, Robert Todd Lincoln, Ralph Fletcher Seymour and Herbert S. Stone.
Size: 4.5 x 7.5
Pages: Pp 101
S#: 0080.28.1215
Date: 1909 Title: The Caxton Club. Officers, Committees, Constitution and By-Laws, Annual Reports, List of Members. (Hard Cover) (Published by The Caxton Club, Fine Arts Building, Chicago. 250 copies printed on a cream laid paper with a "The PM Co." (within a shield, topped with a crown), "Quality" (within a banner), "Hand-Made In Italy" (within a scroll) watermark. Printed by R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. At the Lakeside Press, Chicago. Top edge trimmed, others uncut.)
Author: Caxton Club
Description: The Caxton Club was founded in 1895 by fifteen Chicago bibliophiles who desired to support the publication of fine books in the spirit of the prevailing Arts and Crafts Movement. The founders were collectors, publishers, designers, and librarians. Their primary objective was to publish books of quality, both in content and design, primarily for their own personal libraries. In addition to the subjects mentioned in the title, this volume also includes: Address of the President; Report of the Secretary; Treasurer’s Report; Publications; Exhibitions; House Committee; Librarian; and a list of Members. Members included Francis F. Browne, Daniel Burnham, Robert Todd Lincoln, Ralph Fletcher Seymour, Herbert S. Stone and Frank Lloyd Wright (1907).
Size: 4.5 x 7.5
Pages: Pp 105
S#: 0086.14.1215
Date: 1910
Title: The Caxton Club. Officers, Committees, Constitution and By-Laws, Annual Reports, List of Members. (Hard Cover) (Published by The Caxton Club, Fine Arts Building, Chicago. 250 copies printed on a cream laid paper with a "The PM Co." (within a shield, topped with a crown), "Quality" (within a banner), "Hand-Made In Italy" (within a scroll) watermark. Printed by R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. At the Lakeside Press, Chicago. Top edge trimmed, others uncut.)
Author: Caxton Club
Description: The Caxton Club was founded in 1895 by fifteen Chicago bibliophiles who desired to support the publication of fine books in the spirit of the prevailing Arts and Crafts Movement. The founders were collectors, publishers, designers, and librarians. Their primary objective was to publish books of quality, both in content and design, primarily for their own personal libraries. In addition to the subjects mentioned in the title, this volume also includes: Address of the President; Report of the Secretary; Treasurer’s Report; Publications; Exhibitions; House Committee; Librarian; and a list of Members. Of note: Officers: Curator: Ralph Fletcher Seymour.
Size: 4.5 x 7.5
Pages: Pp 108
S#: 0094.59.0319Date: 1921 Title: The Caxton Club. Officers, Committees, Constitution, List of Members. (Stiff Paper Cover) (Published by The Caxton Club, Art Institute Building, Chicago. 250 copies printed on a cream laid paper with a "Old Stratford USA" watermark. Printed by R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. At the Lakeside Press, Chicago. Top edge trimmed, others uncut.)
Author: Caxton Club
Description: The Caxton Club was founded in 1895 by fifteen Chicago bibliophiles who desired to support the publication of fine books in the spirit of the prevailing Arts and Crafts Movement. The founders were collectors, publishers, designers, and librarians. Their primary objective was to publish books of quality, both in content and design, primarily for their own personal libraries. In addition to the subjects mentioned in the title, this volume also includes: Address of the President; Report of the Secretary; Treasurer’s Report; Publications; Exhibitions; House Committee; Librarian; and a list of Members. (First Edition)
Size: 4.5 x 7.4
Pages: Pp 110
S#: 0144.08.1215
Date: 1996 Title: Caxtonian. Journal of The Caxton Club of Chicago - November 1996 (Published by The Caxton Club, Chicago, Illinois)
Author: 1) Godow, Michael; Fields, Jeanette 3) Cotner, Jon 4 & 5) Cotner, Robert
Description: 1) Collections of One-Time Caxtonian Frank Lloyd Wright in Oak Park. Description of significant Wright collections at the Oak Park Public Library and the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio. (Article notes that Gilman Lane was an Apprentice to Wright, in 1934.) 2) Wright Programs Scheduled This Month in Oak Park. "Wright and Wasmuth: The Heritage in Print. and Drawings..." November 14, at Unity Temple. 3) Cloquet Service Station, Timeless Tribute to Frank Lloyd Wright. "... The station features a 35-foot cantilevered canopy, a stylized, 60-foot tall Phillips 66 obelisk, extensive use of skylights in the service area..." 4) Musings... "Former Caxtonian Frank Lloyd Wright wrote an indelible inscription across the American landscape in architectural designs..." 5) Hawaiian Country Club Has Frank Lloyd Wright Elements from Illinois. 6) Titles and Values of Frank Lloyd Wright-Written Books.
Size: 8.5 x 11
Pages: Pp 6
ST#: 1996.71.1113
Date: 2011 Title: Caxtonian. Journal of The Caxton Club. May 2011 (Published monthly by The Caxton Club, Aurora, Illinois)
Author: Meyer, Jerry D.
Description: "Ralph Fletcher Seymour. Arts and Crafts book designer and illustrator, inveterate networker, and habitual clubman of a century ago... During his long and distinguished career, Ralph Fletcher Seymour (1876-1966) played a central role in the evolution of the Chicago book arts scene in the early years of the 20th century." In October 1900 he published "The Eve of St. Agnes", his fourth book. Wright worked with Seymour in 1911 after his return from Europe. Seymour published "The Morality of Woman and Other Essays" Key, "Love and Ethics" Key, 1912, and The Torpedo under the Ark" also by Key in 1912. That same year he also published Wright’s "The Japanese Print: An Interpretation". Includes 18 photographs related to the article on Seymour. Digital edition.
Size: 8.5 x 11
Pages: Pp 16
ST#: 2011.12.1113
DESIGN BOOK REVIEW Date: 1985
Title: Design Book Review - Summer 1985 (Published quarterly by Design Book Review, Berkeley, CA)
Author: 1) Banham, Reyner 2) Smith, Norris Kelly 3) Beach, John 4) Polledri, Paolo
Description: 1) "The Wright Stuff. " A review of five books about Frank Lloyd Wright. "Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hanna House; The Client's Report," Hanna, 1981; "The Pope-Leighey House," Morton, 1969; "The Robie House of Frank Lloyd Wright," Connors, 1984; "FLW’s Robie House," Hoffman, 1984; "Frank Lloyd Wright at the Metropolitan Museum of Art," Kaufmann, 1982.
2) Ad: Mit Press, includes "Man About Town," Muschamp, with a review by Smith.
3) Book review of "The Architecture of Alden B. Dow", Robinson, 1984. (Dow was an apprentice of Wright’s.) 4) "Zevi On Modern Architecture," Dean, 1984. "To Zevi, the work of Frank Lloyd Wright best exemplifies the architectural ideals of the 20th Century..." Includes one photograph of Wright with Bruno Zevi. Original cover price $4.50.
Size: 8.5 x 11
Pages: Pp: 1) 8-11 2) 41 3) 42-43 4) 63-65
ST#: 1985.61.1116Date: 1990
Title: Design Book Review - Spring 1990 (Published quarterly by Design Book Review, Berkeley, CA)
Author: 1) Twombly, Robert; 2) Meehan, Patrick
Description: 1) Book Review: "Word Glut: Marketing Frank Lloyd Wright." Four Books: A) The Nature of Frank Lloyd Wright, Bolon, Nelson, Seidel, 1988, S29.95. B) Frank Lloyd Wright In The Realm of Ideas, Pfeiffer, Nordland, 1988, $24.95 p, $42.50 c. C) Modern Architecture: Being the Kahn Lectures for 1930, Wright, 1987, $29.95. D) Frank Lloyd Wright: His Living Voice, Pfeiffer, 1987, $25.95. "... The Frank Lloyd Wright cottage industry that began some years ago has now become an assembly-line production, generating not only books, but also T-shirts, tableware, posters, and rugs – among many endearing collectibles... Although the four books under review are part of the mad scurry to slurp at the Wright publishing trough before the market runs dry, they nevertheless have their virtue as artifacts, revealing trends in scholarship and academic entrepreneurialism that now characterize Wright studies..." Includes two illustrations. 2) Book Review: "Frank Lloyd Wright: An index to the Taliesin Correspondence. Anthony Alofsin, Editor. The publication of Frank Lloyd Wright... responds in part to the continually growing interest in Frank Lloyd Wright since his death in 1959. This five-volume set is a major contribution to the recent outpouring of books on Wright and his architecture, as well as the first published index to Wright’s letters housed in the Frank Lloyd Wright Achieves at Taliesin West, in Scottsdale, Arizona..." Original cover price $6.00.
Size: 8.5 x 11
Pages: 1) Pp 61-65 2) Pp 66
ST#: 1990.125.0217
GRAND STREET Date: 1988
Title: Grand Street - Spring 1988 (Published quarterly by Grand Street Publications, Inc., New York)
Author: Bender, Thomas
Description: "A Great American Life. Frank Lloyd Wright was one of the few great American architects to publish an autobiography (along with Louis Sullivan and Ralph Adams Cram). He also published, by one scholar’s count, seventeen other books and more than two hundred articles, letters and reviews. Writing in 1929, in the middle of a decade of painfully few commissions, Wright noted: ‘I would much rather build than write about building, but when I am not building I will write about building or the significance of those buildings I have already built...’ " Article goes on to review Many Masks, 1987, Gill. Original cover price $5.00.
Size: 6 x 9
Pages: Pp 186-193
ST#: 1988.94.0317
LITTLE REVIEW Date: 1915
Title: The Little Review - October 1915 (Published monthly by Margaret C. Anderson, Fine Arts Building, Chicago)
Author: Key, Ellen
Description: "Romain Rolland. (Authorized translation from the Swedish by Mamah Bouton Borthwick. Copyright 1914.) Rolland’s serialized novel Jean Christophe won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915. Borthwick had earlier translated other work by Key. "The Morality of Woman and other Essays" 1911, "Love and Ethics" 1912, "The Torpedo Under the Ark" 1912, and "The Woman Movement" 1912. This issue also published seven poems by Ben Hecht. Original cover price 15 cents. (Sweeney 126)
Size: 6.75 x 10
Pages: Pp 22-30
S#: 0126.00.0317NATION Date: 1940
Title: The Nation - November 30, 1940 (Published weekly by The Nation, Inc. New York)
Author: Hamlin, Talbot
Description: Review of Wright Exhibition at MOMA in 1940. "Frank Lloyd Wright. To anyone interested in the development of American architecture a large root retrospective exhibition of Wright’s work must be a major event. In holding such an exhibition the Museum of Modern Art is fulfilling just that kind of valuable function for which it was created; for of the importance of Wright’s accomplishments, of the brilliant inventive unconventionality that has always marked his work, there can be no question..." Original cover price 15c. (Sweeney 511)
Size: 8.5 x 11.5
Pages: Pp 541-542
S#: 0511.00.0818NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW Date: 1938
Title: North American Review - August 1938 (Published quarterly by The North American Review Corporation, Concord, New Hampshire)
Author: Seckel, Harry
Description: "Frank Lloyd Wright. Architecture is a strangely anonymous profession. Few architects ever become well known to the general public and those who do seldom owe their renowned entirely to architecture. Of the Americans, the most famous, by far, are Thomas Jefferson and Stanford White. Jefferson was President of the United States and White was shot by Harry Thaw. These are marks of distinction from which spread their architectural fame. The most widely known architect in America today is Frank Lloyd Wright and his reputation is not altogether due to his buildings. But there is a difference, and an important one, between Wright and his two famous predecessors. Thomas Jefferson and Stanford White are popularly known as architects because of circumstances not only a part from their work but essentially unrelated to it. In the case of Frank Lloyd Wright there is an intimate relationship between the man's work and the unusual life and personality that have caught the public eye... Never has a man's work more clearly reflected the man. Wright’s architecture is dynamic, fascinating, eccentric. It is a passionate, hot-blooded architecture that appeals to the emotions rather than to the intellect. It is fraught with imperfection but it is never banal or dull. It is Wright himself translated into concrete, stone, and steel." (Sweeney 453)
Size: 6.25 x 9.5
Pages: Pp 48-64
S#: 0453.00.0320
SATURDAY REVIEW
Date: July 11, 1931 Publication: The Saturday Review of Literature
Author: Hamlin, Talbot Faulkner
Description: Book Review: Artist and Prophet. Review of "Modern Architecture, Being the Kahn Lectures for 1930", 1931, Wright, S.250. (Sweeney 257)
Size:
Pages: Pg 957
S#: 0257.00.0303
Date: 1932 Title: The Saturday Review of Literature - April 23, 1932 (Published weekly by the Saturday Review Co., Inc., New York)
Author: Cheney, Sheldon
Description: Book Review. "An Autobiography," Wright, 1932, $5. "America’s most creative rebel sets down, somewhere within the confused beauty of this book, the comment that ‘man’s struggle to illuminate creation is another tragedy.’ Against the background of ‘terrible shopkeeping circumstances we call Democracy’ he unfolds the story of his creative life and the record of what counts creatively in the art of architecture, in nineteenth and twentieth century America. But the undercurrent of tragedy in not in any failure of the writer to illuminate creation; it is revealed in the situation of an original and prophetic artist – and a man attempting to be truly free – struggling against the grad of orthodoxy and ignorance in a shopkeeping and belly-filling civilization..." Includes one photograph of Taliesin, and one illustration of St. Marks in the Bouwerie. Original cover price 10c. (Sweeney 312)
Size: 11 x 16
Pages: Pp 677-678
S#: 0312.00.1015
Date: 1932 Title: The Saturday Review of Literature - May 21, 1932 (Published weekly by the Saturday Review Co., Inc., New York)
Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd
Description: Book reviewed by Frank Lloyd Wright: "The Frozen Fountain," Claude Bragdon, 1932. "A Treatise on Ornament. This book is, primarily, a treatise on ornament as an abstract element – something in itself, which, of course, it may be, as snow or mineral crystals are. Or as Louis Sullivan’s system of ornament was. But Louis Sullivan devised a system of ornament out of himself with a sense of organic unity warmly exponent of the individuality of one Louis Henry Sullivan. Mr. Bragdon devises geometric patterns, which for devising geometric patterns, which is not the same thing and in which there is very little room for Mr. Bragdon’s individuality or anyone’s..." Original cover price 10c. (Sweeney 349)
Size: 11 x 16
Pages: Pp 744
S#: 0349.00.1015
Date: 1932 Title: The Saturday Review of Literature - December 31, 1932 (Published weekly by the Saturday Review Co., Inc., New York)
Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd
Description: Book reviewed by Frank Lloyd Wright: "Horizons," Norman Bel Geddes, 1932. "On Popular Mechanics. Comrad Bel Geddes has left his metier – the theatre -- to write a treatise on popular mechanics. He has notions concerning the future of practically everything, but pretty nearly everything begins with the Greeks, the Egyptians, and Cezanne and winds up with Norman Bel Geddes... Geddes is a distinguished designer of the spectacle, and as such of no negligible character and valuable to our stage. But, although he has, obviously, profited much by what has gone before him and has embodied it as the best part of his book, his ‘Horizons’ is nevertheless a book apparently written as a primer for those who know art only through the Sunday supplements..."
Size: 11 x 16
Pages: Pp 351
S#: 0361.08.1015
Date: December 14, 1935 Publication: The Saturday Review of Literature (Published weekly by The Saturday Review Company, Inc. New York)
Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd
Description: “Form and Function.” Louis Sullivan: Prophet of Modern Architecture, by Hugh Morrison. Reviewed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Includes one photo. Original Cover Price $0.10. (Sweeney 394)
Size: 8.5 x 11.5
Pages: Pg 6
S#: 0394.00.0506Date: December 18, 1937 Publication: The Saturday Review of Literature
Author: Hamlin, Talbot
Description: Review: "Building for the Future". Review of "Architecture and Modern Life". By Baker Brownell and Frank Lloyd Wright. Includes photo of the Willem House, Minneapolis. (Sweeney 408)
Size:
Pages: Pg 10
S#: 0408.00.0402
Date: 1938
Title: The Saturday Review of Literature - September 17, 1938 (Published weekly by the Saturday Review Company, Inc., New York)
Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd
Description: Book Review by Wright. "Ideas for the future. Nine Chains to the Moon." By R. Buckminster Fuller. 1938. Reviewed by Frank Lloyd Wright. "Buckminister Fuller -- you are the most sensible man in New York, truly sensitive. Nature gave you antennae, long-range finders you have learned to use. I find almost all your prognosticating nearly right – much of it dead right, and I love you for the way you prognosticate. To address you directly will be a hell of a way of reviewing you book – I know. I should write all around you, take you apart, and put you together again to show – between the lines – how much bigger my mind is than yours and how much smarter than you I can be with it and leave the essence of your thought untouched. But I couldn’t do it if I would and I wouldn’t if I could..." Original cover price 10c. (Sweeney 458)
Size: 8.5 x 11.75
Pages: Pg 14-15
S#: 0458.00.0317Date: 1941
Title: The Saturday Review of Literature - June 14, 1941 (Published weekly by the Saturday Review Company, Inc., New York)
Author: Feiss, Carl
Description: Book Review: Frank Lloyd Wright on Architecture, Selected Writings 1894-1940, Wright, 1941, $3.50. "Architect-Writer. This is the first of a set of three books on or by Frank Lloyd Wright, the other two to appear within the next year. The second book is Mr. Wright's autobiography, published in 1932, revised and brought up to date; the third is to be a compendium of photographs of his buildings. Frank Lloyd Wright is unquestionably America’s greatest contemporary architect. His work has been stimulating and exciting, even to his many severe critics, and his influence has been worldwide. But Mr. Wright is not our greatest contemporary writer..." Original cover price 15c.
Size: 8.6 x 11.8
Pages: Pg 18
S#: 0540.01.0718Date: August 23, 1941 Publication: The Saturday Review of Literature
Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd
Description: "Mumford Lectures". Review of "The South in Architecture: Lectures in Alabama" by Lewis Mumford, published 1941. Review by Frank Lloyd Wright. (Sweeney 567)
Size:
Pages: Pp 15-16
S#: 0567.00.0703
Date: May 19, 1945 Publication: The Saturday Review of Literature
Author: Kahn, Ely Jacques
Description: "Realistic Dreams for Tomorrow". Book review of "When Democracy Builds". (Sweeney 619)
Size:
Pages: Pg 26
S#: 0619.00.1101
Date: April 13, 1946 Publication: The Saturday Review of Literature (Published weekly by the Saturday Review Association, Inc, New York)
Author: Kahn, Ely Jacques
Description: Book Review: "My Father Who In On Earth" by John Lloyd Wright, $3.50. "Life, More or Less, With Father. ...His son... has written a book... and one is puzzled in trying to be fair in judging it. It is a variety of anticlimax to read odds and ends of family history and certain quasi-scandalous items... It seems a pity that the son should have found it necessary to concentrate on minor matters and have failed to use his unusual opportunities to present to us details in the life of his father that would eventually have helped in realizing a true picture of great man." Includes on portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright. Original cover price 15 cents. (Sweeney 653)
Size: 8.25 x 11.5
Pages: Pg 52
S#: 0653.00.0311
Date: September 3, 1949 Publication: The Saturday Review of Literature (Published weekly by The Saturday Review Associates, Inc. New York)
Author: Spitz, David
Description: Book Review: “The Mob is Wrong with Wright.” Review of “Genius and the Mobobracy”, Wright, 1949. “...If it serves no other purpose, this book should help to remind us that eminence in architecture, as in any other non-political field, is no guide to political competence.” Includes one portrait of Wright by Valentino Sarra. Original Cover Price $0.20. (Sweeney 759)
Size: 8.25 x 11.5.
Pages: Pg 21
S#: 0759.00.0807
Date: October 4, 1952 Publication: The Saturday Review of Literature (Published weekly by The Saturday Review Associates, Inc. New York)
Author: Soby, James Thrall
Description: Book Review: “The Unaging Frank Lloyd Wright” Review of “Taliesin Drawings”. Includes one photograph and one illustration. Original Cover Price $0.20. (Sweeney 868)
Size: 8 x 11
Pages: Pg 58-59
S#: 0868.00.1106
Date: November 14, 1953 Publication: The Saturday Review of Literature (Published weekly by The Saturday Review Associates, Inc., New York)
Author: Andrews, Wayne Author: Kalb, Bernard Description: Book Review: “The Great Uncompromiser.” Review of “The Future of Architecture”. Includes four photographs. Original Cover Price $0.20. (Sweeney 914) Description: “The Author.” Kalb describes one of Wright’s visits to New York. Includes a portrait of Wright. Original Cover Price $0.20. Size: 8 x 11 Size: 8 x 11 Pages: Pg 15-16 Pages: Pg 15 S#: 0914.00.1206 S#: 0914.01.1206 Date: December 18, 1954 Publication: The Saturday Review of Literature (Published weekly by the Saturday Review Associates, Inc., New York)
Author: Andrews, Wayne
Description: Book Review: "The Natural House" by Frank Lloyd Wright 1954. "Architects Creed. ...The truth, as everyone knows, is that Frank Lloyd Wright has never been embarrassed since the day he was born, if then. He would not even be nonplussed if he were asked tomorrow morning to redesign every house in the United States. He would simply take the news in stride... ‘The house of moderate cost’ he makes plain, ‘is not only America’s major architectural problem, but the problem most difficult for her major architects. As for me I would rather solve it with satisfaction to myself and Usonia...’ " Original cover price $0.20. (Sweeney 993)
Size: 8 x 11
Pages: Pg 17, 41
0993.00.0710
Date: May 21, 1955 Publication: The Saturday Review of Literature
Author: Haverstick, John Author: Ad Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd Description: To Be or Not to be (Guggenheim Museum) (Sweeney 1076) Description: Advertising "The Natural House", "Future of Arch", "60 Yrs of Living Arch" Description: Future of the City (Sweeney 1091) Size: Size: Size: Pages: Pp 13 Pages: Pp 4 Pages: Pp 10-13 S#: 1076.00.1001 S#: 1076.01.1001 S#: 1091.00.1001 Date: August 4, 1956 Publication: The Saturday Review of Literature (Published weekly by the Saturday Review, Inc., New York)
Author: Blake, Peter
Description: Book Review: “Our Elder Spaceman”. Review of “An American Architecture,” by Frank Lloyd Wright (edited by Edgar Kaufman, Horizon Press, $10.00). Wright’s first major contribution was the discovery of continuous space. Includes one photograph. Original cover price $0.20.
Size: 8 x 11
Pages: Pg 22-3
S#: 1052.00.0906
Date: December 21, 1957 Publication: The Saturday Review of Literature
Author: Wiener, Paul Lester
Description: Book Review: "Titan of Taliesin". Book review of "A Testament".
Size:
Pages: Pg 18-19
S#: 1197.00.0203
Date: 1957 Title: Saturday Review - September 28, 1957 (Published weekly by Saturday Review, Inc., New York)
Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd
Description: "Architecture and Music. Music and architecture blossom on the same stem - sublimated mathematics. Mathematics as presented by geometry. Instead of the musician’s systematic staff and intervals, the architect has a modular system as the framework of design. My father, a preacher and music-teacher, taught me to see – to listen – to a symphony as an edifice of sound..." Includes an illustration of Unity Temple and a phonograph of Midway Gardens. Original cover price 25c. (Sweeney 1199)
Size: 8 x 11
Pages: Pg 72-73
S#: 1199.00.0115
Date: November 7, 1959 Publication: The Saturday Review of Literature
Author: Stone, Edward Durell Author: Kuh, Katharine Description: Hero, Prophet, Adventurer (Sweeney 1361) Description: Architecturally Successful But Paintings Died Size: Size: Pages: Pp 15-17 43 Pages: Pp 36-7 S#: 1361.00.0701 S#: 1361.01.0701 Date: November 12, 1960 Title: Saturday Review (Published weekly by Saturday Review, Inc., New York)
Author: Christ-Janer, Albert
Description: Book Review: The Master Builders: Le Corbusier, Mies Van Der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, Blake, 1960. "Though your shelves may be filling up with books and pamphlets about Corbu, Mies and Wright, you will want to add this one by Peter Blake in which he presents this famed trio with journalistic skill and architectural perception." Includes one photograph of Taliesin West. Original cover price 25c.
Size: 8.25 x 11
Pages: Pp 28-29
S#: 1379.02.1212
Date: 1963 Title: Saturday Review - February 2, 1963 (Published weekly by Saturday Review, Inc., New York)
Author: Christ-Janer, Albert
Description: Building on the Wright Foundation. (Book Review on "Life and Shape," by Richard Neutra and "The Evolution of an Architect," by Edward Durell Stone.) "Tributes to Frank Lloyd Wright come from many architects these days, but what a treat to find, in both these introspections, such genuine, such intimate eulogy of a true American titan. To read these books is to realize the full extent to which Edward Durell Stone's simple sentence sums up a fact: "No modem architect today takes a pencil in hand without subconsciously paying homage to Frank Lloyd Wright." Both Stone and Richard Neutra, revealing so personally their own relationship to Wright, add there-by unforgettable and important paragraphs to the saga of the master of all the modern masters." Original cover price 25c.
Size: 8.25 x 11
Pages: Pp 36-37
S#: 1565.44.0714
Date: December 16, 1967 Publication: The Saturday Review of Literature
Author: Riley, Frank
Description: "Deathwatch in Tokyo". Mrs. Wright’s visit to Imperial Hotel to stay off destruction. Article only. (Sweeney 1710)
Size:
Pages: Pg 40, 45
S#: 1710.00.1004
Date: October 4, 1975 Publication: The Saturday Review of Literature
Author: Guerrero, Pedro E. Author: Marlin, William Description: Frank Lloyd Wright: An Unpublished Portfolio (Sweeney 1982) Description: Frank Lloyd Wright: The Enduring Presence (Sweeney 1988) Size: Size: Pages: Pp 18-23 & Cover Pages: Pp 14-17 & Cover S#: 1982.00.0301 S#: 1988.00.0301
SCRIBNER'S Date: 1941 Title: Scribner’s Commentator - October 1941 (Published monthly by P. & S. Publishing, Inc. Mount Morris, Ill.)
Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd
Description: “"The American Quality. With a Picture Section of Outstanding Works. The less we ally ourselves with alien forces - the more nature will smile upon our efforts to build a future greatness. Not ‘An American Century’ of conquest, but a rebirth of ‘American Quality’." Includes a photo essay of 14 photographs: Fallingwater (3); Imperial Hotel (1); Sidney Bassett (1); Sturges (1); Taliesin West (1); Pauson (1); Hotel Geneva (2); S. C. Johnson (2); Goetsch-Winkler (1): Lloyd Lewis (1). One copy from the Jack Howe estate, a gift from Kathryn Smith. Original cover price 25 cents. 6.25 x 9. (Sweeney 569)
Size: 6.25 x 9.
Pages: Pp 35-46
S#: 0569.00.0307, 0569.00.0319
SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE Date: 1986 Title: Smithsonian - April 1986
Author: Stewart, Doug
Description: Modern designers still can’t make the perfect chair. Includes photo and text about Wright.
Size:
Pages: Pp 96-105
ST#: 1986.16.0103
Date: 1994 Title: Smithsonian - February 1994
Author: Secrest, Meryle
Description: A great architect with love for nature and lots of fight.
Size:
Pages: Pp Cover, 54-61
ST#: 1994.12.0499
Date: 2009 Title: Smithsonian - June 2009 (Published monthly by Smithsonian Enterprises, Washington D. C.)
Author: Lubow, Arthur
Description: "The Triumph of Frank Lloyd Wright. The Guggenheim Museum, turning 50 this year, showcases the trailblazer’s lifelong mission to elevate American society through architecture... Wright’s most iconic buildings was also one of his last." A history of Wright’s life, his work and the Guggenheim Museum. Includes 17 photographs, two of which are original photographs of Wright and museum from 1959, and two illustrations. Original cover price $4.99.
Size: 8 x 10.75
Pages: Pp 1, 52-61
ST#: 2009.16.0910
THE NEW REPUBLIC Date: 1931
Title: The New Republic - January 21, 1931 Vol. LXV No. 842 (Published Weekly by The New Republic, New York)
Author: Mumford, Lewis
Description: Two Chicago Fairs. The World’s Fair at Chicago in 1893 had a powerful influence upon American architecture and city planning: it became a model and a goal for aspiration. In the project for another World's Fair at Chicago in 1933 a heavy responsibility lies upon the organizing committee and the architects They have designated to create the buildings... The break occasioned by the Worlds Fair was severe. Perhaps the only thing that kept it from being fatal was the work of a single man, Frank Lloyd Wright, who began as a draughtsman in Sullivan's office, and during the 90s started out on an independent career...| With the work of Frank Lloyd Wright modern architecture may properly be said to begin. While Sullivan faultered, stopped, became vague and mystical, lost himself in the labyrinth of his own ornament, Mr. Wright went on. One has only to compare his work with the most advanced work in Europe during the same period to see far how far ahead he was of Wagner, Berlage, or Perret..." Original cover price 15c. (Sweeney 275)
Size: 8.5 x 12.25
Pages: Pp 271-272
S#: 0275.00.0818Date: 1931
Title: The New Republic - February 4, 1931 Vol. LXV No. 844 (Published Weekly by The New Republic, New York)
Author: Churchill, Henry S.
Description: Correspondence: "Wright and the Chicago Fair. Sir: the omission of Frank Lloyd Wright from the proposed world’s fair of ‘33 in Chicago is nothing less than a calamity. Even the academicians of ‘93 did not dare leave out Sullivan, and the Commissioners of ‘33 are supposed not to be academicians... Two arguments for Wright’s exclusion have, I believe, been advanced. One is that he is difficult to work with, the other that his architecture does not "conform." Whatever element of truth there may be in the first does not outweigh the fact that he is the greatest living architect. As to the second, "conform" to what? One look at the heterogeneous designs of the commissioners, ranging from Paris ‘25 to Neo– romantic by way of a what’s-It-behind-the-trees, convinces one that the fear is not about Wright’s conformity but of his ability..." Original cover price 15c. (Sweeney 268)
Size: 8.5 x 12.25
Pages: Pp 329
S#: 0268.00.1017Date: 1931
Title: New Republic - June 24, 1931 Vol. LXVII No. 864 (Published Weekly by The New Republic, New York)
Author: Bauer, C. K.
Description: "The Americanization of Europe. Three leaves from a notebook. III. And then, all summer long, in Oslo, in Stockholm, in Germany, Holland, France, in brick, in wood, in stone, in concrete, I marked the influence of Frank Lloyd Wright. Houses, apartments, restaurants, stadiums, churches – some good, some bad – that could never have been exactly the way they were if Wright’s handful of Midwestern houses had not been built before. The best contemporary European architects – Oud in Holland, Gropius and Schnider and Mart Stam in Germany, Le Corbsier and Lurcat in France – have gone beyond him but the path from Art Nouveau to nue Sachlichkeit, to an international spirit of rationalism in architecture, could obviously never have been traverse in so short a time without the influence of Mr. Wright, Without his ingenious use of materials, his fresh, spacious plans, his honesty if still romantically individualistic evaluations. Perhaps more than anyone else, Frank Lloyd Wright has succeeded in giving the word architecture, and shaking it loose from its eighteenth and nineteenth century, connotation, Public Monument..." Original cover price 15c. (Sweeney 266)
Size: 8.5 x 12.25
Pages: Pp 153-4
S#: 0266.00.1017Date: 1958
Title: New Republic - September 8, 1958
Author: Brandon, Henry
Description: A Conversation with Frank Lloyd Wright. "Flat on Our Faces" (Sweeney 1229)
Size:
Pages: Pp 14-15
S#: 1229.00.0302
