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NEWS JOURNALS NEWSWEEK TIME COLLIER'S ESQUIRE LET'S SEE NEWSWEEK Date: 1940 Title: Newsweek - July 1, 1940 (Published weekly by Weekly Publications, Inc., Dayton, Ohio)
Author: Anonymous
Description: "New Design for Worship: The Reverend Burris Jenkins of Kansas City, Mo., preaches modernism. That he also practices it is shown by his new $175,000 Community church, designed by the noted architect Frank Lloyd Wright to look somewhat like a World’s Fair Building. Its walls will be steel, coasted outside and inside with rose-colored concrete. The banked, windowless auditorium will have 1,200 individual chairs instead of pews, a movie screen, and twelve dressing rooms for church plays. At the rear will be a triple-decker parking space for 150 cars." Includes two illustrations for the proposed building. Original cover price 10c. (Sweeney 519)
Size: 8.5 x 11.5
Pages: P 38
S#: 0519.00.0416
Date: 1940
Title: Newsweek - November 25, 1940
Author: Anonymous
Description: Wright Goes to Washington With a $15,000,000 Surprise. Concerns Crystal Heights project. Includes one photograph of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Robie House model, exhibited at "Frank Lloyd Wright, American Architect," November 13, 1940 – January 5, 1941, at MOMA, The Museum of Modern Art. "..Another feature of the most comprehensive Wright show ever staged is the largest (144 square feet) of eighteen models, which represents Broadacre City, Wright's design for living for 1,400 families in the future... Other attractions include the most complete and showiest models ever assembled for an architectural exhibit, ranging from the 1908 Robie Hose in Chicago... to 1940 homes now under construction..." Photographed by Pat Terry. Courtesy of Newsweek. (Sweeney 530)
Size: 8.5 x 11.5
Pages: P 48
S#: 0530.00.0403
Date: 1946
Title: Newsweek - April 8, 1946 (Missing Pages) (Published weekly by Weekly Publications, Inc., New York, New York)
Author: Anonymous
Description: (Page is partially clipped.) Book Review: My Father Who Is on Earth. John Lloyd Wright, 1946. "Life with Father... In the end, in a dream sequence, Wright Sr. goes temporarily to Heaven, where St. Peter tells him of the one black mark on his record: "You fired your boy John!" St. Peter sends Wright back to earth with this admonition: "You have already made earth life less barren, but you must carry your work further. Send your students out on their own to build and expand... Do not block your own path by insisting upon passing everything organic through yourself first, as though you were the only architectural organ on the earth." Original cover price 15c. 8.5 x 11.25 (Sweeney 652)
Size:
Pages: P.90
ST#: 0652.00.0420Date: 1949 Title: Newsweek - March 28, 1949 (Published weekly by Weekly Publications, Inc., Dayton, Ohio)
Author: Anonymous
Description: "Metal for a Titan." Wright awarded the Gold Metal of American Institute of Architects. "A rebellious old gentleman with a halo of snowy hair and an audacious, merry twinkle in his eyes stood up before a thousand delegates at the American Institute of Architects’ 81st convention in Houston, Texas, one night last week to receive his procession’s highest award. He was Frank Lloyd Wright, just turning 80, and his citation for the AIA’s gold medal, previously given only fifteen times, called him ‘a titanic force’ in building design. A great number (but by no means all) of those present would have gone farther, for to many of his most knowing countrymen Frank Lloyd Wright is the greatest artistic genius of his place and time – an estimate which Wright himself would be the last to depreciate...." Includes four photographs. A portrait by Ottawa Karsh, S.C. Johnson’s Great Workroom, the Willits and Herbert Johnson house. Original cover price 20c. (Sweeney 778)
Size: 8.25 x 11.25
Pages: Pp 74-75
S#: 0778.00.0416
Date: 1949
Title: Newsweek - June 18, 1949 (Published weekly by Weekly Publications, Inc., Dayton, Ohio)
Author: Anonymous
Description: Book Review: Genius and the Mobocracy, Wright, 1949. "Wright on Sullivan. Frank Lloyd Wright's long awaited book about Louis Henry Sullivan, the universally acknowledged ‘father of the American skyscraper’ and the man whom Wright (Newsweek March 28) has always called Lieber Meister, has at last appeared. ‘Genius and the Mobocracy’ is, as might have been expected, more about Wright than Sullivan. Sullivan at Wright’s hands is like the sun setting behind the haze of a heat wave – there, but without power. Wright admits that he has never read – although he says he is now able to do so – Sullivan’s all-but-posthumous book, ‘The Autobiography of an Idea.’ Inasmuch as Sullivan poured into this the essence of his thoughts about life and architecture, far more than he apparently ever did into Wright in there after-hour sessions when Wright was for six years (1887-1893) Sullivan’s head draftsman, this might be taken as curiously evasive on Wright’s part..." Includes two photographs of the National Farmers’ Bank, Owatonna, Minneapolis. Original cover price 20c.
Size: 8.25 x 11.25
Pages: Pp 74-75
S#: 0760.02.0408Date: 1951
Title: Newsweek - February 5, 1951 (Published weekly by Weekly Publications, Inc., New York.)
Author: Anonymous
Description: Business & Culture: Sixty Years of Living Architecture: The Work of Frank Lloyd Wright was a traveling exhibition of Wright's work, consisting of Models, photographs and original drawings. A Preview of the exhibition was held in Philadelphia at Gimbel Brothers Gallery in January, 1951. "When Arthur C. Kaufmann, executive head of Gimbals, Philadelphia, turned over the department stores auditorium to an exhibition dealing with the architecture of the great Frank Lloyd Wright last week, he was continuing a civic minded tradition peculiar to the Gimbel empire... Believing that museums are not next to the people, Wright thought it significant that his show was organized by a department-store man..." Includes one photograph: "Frank Lloyd Wright explains Broadacre City to Stonorov and Kaufmann." Original cover price 20c. (Sweeney 839)
Size: 8.25 x 11.25
Pages: Pp 76
S#: 0839.00.0420Date: 1953 Title: Newsweek - May 11, 1953 (Published weekly by Weekly Publications, Inc., Dayton, Ohio)
Author:
Description: Anonymous
Size: "Wright is Right. In Salt Lake City this week, professional hospital administrators and aides, attending the 23rd annual conference of the Association of Western Hospitals, listened with reddened faces to the words of a man bent on letting sunlight into the lives of all hospital patients. He was Frank Lloyd Wright, the celebrated 84-year-old architectural iconoclast. In Salt Lake to discus plans for a cultural center which he is scheduled to design for tiny Westminster College, Wright turned up at the hospital meeting upon the invitation of the association and hit the members where it hurt..." Original cover price 20c. 8.25 x 11.25 (Sweeney 985)
Pages: Pp 97-98
S#: 0985.00.0416
Date: 1953 Title: Newsweek - November 2, 1953 (Published weekly by Weekly Publications, Inc., New York.)
Author: Anonymous
Description: "Man of Culture. Frank Lloyd Wright is perhaps not a testy man, but he sometimes seems to suffer from a superfluity of relevance. Last week in New York, for instance, the great American architect expressed an annoyance at the humorous was in which he feels some of the press has dealt with him. ‘When they make fun,’ he asserted, ‘it is a sign of immaturity. As a nation we still have no maturity, and until we get it we only have a civilization and not a culture. You’d think we would have a culture after going along for 175 years.’ " Includes information on the "Sixty Years of Living Architecture,’ as well as two photographs. One of the Exhibition House and one of Wright and the Model of the Guggenheim Museum. Original cover price 20c. (Sweeney 948)
Size: 8.25 x 11.25
Pages: Pp 64
S#: 0948.00.0416
Date: 1954
Title: Newsweek - June 14, 1954 (Published weekly by Weekly Publications, Inc., Dayton, Ohio)
Author: Anonymous
Description: Birthdays: "I’m famed by my modesty," declared Frank Lloyd Wright, previewing a Los Angeles exhibition of his work a week before his 85th birthday, June 8. He said that once, after he testified in court that he was the worlds greatest architect, a friend criticized him for not being more modest. "How could I?" Wright replied." I was under oath." Includes one portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright. Original cover price 20c. (Sweeney 1021)
Size: 8.25 x 11.25.
Pages: Pp 73
S#: 1021.00.0420Date: 1954 Title: Newsweek - November 22, 1954 (Published weekly by Weekly Publications, Inc., Dayton, Ohio)
Author: Anonymous
Description: "Wright’s Exodus: Architect Frank Lloyd Wright threatened to move his school from Spring Green, Wis., to New York after the state supreme court ruled that it was not a tax-exempt , educational institution. ‘We don’t mind paying the taxes,’ said the irascible dean of modern architects, but the decision ‘shows a lack of understanding and appreciation for our work.’ Wisconsin, he added, was a great state once upon a time, inhabited by great men, but of late [it] has become chiefly the champion of mediocrity.’ " Includes one portrait of Wright (1045.15). Original cover price 20c. (Sweeney 1022)
Size: 8.25 x 11.
Pages: Pp 63
S#: 1022.00.0416
Date: 1956 Title: Newsweek - September 10, 1956 (Published weekly by Weekly Publications, Inc., Dayton, Ohio)
Author: Anonymous
Description: "Tall Tale. Skyscrapers, said Frank Lloyd Wright, a sworn enemy of tall buildings, are ‘a landlord’s ruse to enable a lot area to be sold to the people over and over again as many times as steel can multiply it and engineers can make it stand up.’ Last week, it appeared that the nation’s chronically crusty mast architect was laying the ghost of his old complaint. For a fortnight, he had been working on plans for the behemoth of all world’s buildings, a mighty 510-story, mile-high structure on Chicago’s lake front..." Wright’s Mile High building. Original cover price 20c. (Sweeney 1137)
Size: 8.25 x 11.25
Pages: Pp 98, 100
S#: 1137.00.0416
Date: 1959 Title: Newsweek - April 20, 1959 (Published weekly by Weekly Publications, Inc., Dayton, Ohio)
Author: Anonymous
Description: 1) "The Great Dissenter. It is impossible to grieve at the passing of a man who lived so long and achieved so much: who swept across the face of the land like some vast natural force bending both men and nature to his will. One can only wonder. This thought was expressed in many ways last week as the news came from Phoenix, Ariz., that Frank Lloyd Wright, just two months be fore..." 2) "Wright-With-a-Bite. Frank Lloyd Wright was widely famous for his iconoclastic opinions. He had a passionate intelligence which was fiercely critical of almost everything that came within its scope. Only nature, the freedom of the individual, and his own architecture escaped Wright’s critical barbs which ranged from the flip to the deadly earnest..." Includes two photographs. A portrait of Wright by Werner Bischof-Magnum and an illustration of the Mile-High building. Original cover price 25c. (Sweeney 1316)
Size: 8.25 x 11.25
Pages: Pp 99-100
S#: 1316.00.0416
Date: 1963 Title: Newsweek - October 11, 1963 (Published weekly by Newsweek Inc., New York. A Division of The Washington Post Company.)
Author: Anonymous
Description: Art: “A Legacy in Danger.” Wright’s Robie House in Chicago: An American Brunelleschi threatened. Includes three photographs. Original cover price 25 cents.
Size: 8.25 x 11
Pages: Pp 105
S#: 1565.17.0407
Date: 1963 Title: Newsweek - November 11, 1963
Author: Anonymous
Description: Letters: "Preserving a Heritage". Response to an article in the Oct. 7, 63 issue.
Size:
Pages: P 16
S#: 1565.01.0604
Date: 1988 Title: Newsweek - February 1, 1988 (Published weekly by Newsweek, Inc., New York)
Author: Davis, Douglas
Description: "The Wright Stuff. A crusty old genius of architecture (1867-1959 is hotter than ever. FLW, the very soul of iconoclasm during his life, now seems to be a god among architects. The man who never hesitated to defy vested truths and upset the pillars of tradition has become an icon himself." Includes information on the Usonian exhibit at Dallas Museum and purchases by Monaghan. Also includes review of Many Masks, Gill, 1987. Includes six photographs.
Size: 8.25 x 10.75
Pages: Pp 3, 52-54
ST#: 1988.72.0614
Date: 1967 Title: Newsweek - Oct 23, 1967 (Published weekly by Newsweek Inc., Dayton, Ohio)
Author: Anonymous
Description: "Wright’s ‘Teahouse’: The only restaurant famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright ever designed opened for business last week on the grounds of his estate, Taliesin, 40 miles west of Madison, Wis. Wright designed the structure in 1953, intending it as a teahouse for visitors. At Wright’s death, in 1959, however, construction was far from complete and it was only last year that work was resumed by his successors. At the restaurant’s opening – it was the first structure in a planned 4,000-acre sport, resort and housing development – it was plain that what Wright had in mind was more than a simple teahouse..." Includes one photograph by Tim Wyngaard, of the Riverview Terrace Restaurant (1953 - S.367). Original cover price 50 cents. (Sweeney 1720)
Size: 8.25 x 11.25
Pages: P 78
S#: 1720.00.0416
TIME Date: October 7, 1929 Periodical: Time
Author: Anonymous
Description: Art: Genius, Inc. (Notice of Frank Lloyd Wright’s incorporation) (Sweeney 219)
Size:
Pages: Pp 45-6
S#: 0219.00.0601
Date: 1932
Title: Time - September 5, 1932 (Published weekly by Time, Inc., Chicago, IL)
Author: Anonymous
Description: Wright Apprentices. Whenever architect Frank Lloyd Wright has a good idea, he does something about it. The best idea he ever had was Frank Lloyd Wright. He has been doing things about that for 63 years. His latest idea is to found a practical architect’s school to educate architects in Frank Lloyd Wright's image. The school would be across the valley from "Taliesin," his studio-estate in the dairy country near Spring Green, Wis. He would be the chief faculty member, teaching male and female pupils his basic architectural law: that the architect must integrate his buildings with its surroundings (function, terrain, climate), make plain it's structural elements and if possible develop them as ornamentation... Original cover price 15c. (Sweeney 346)
Size: 8.5 x 11.5
Pages: Pp 33
S#: 0346.00.1220Date: 1935
Title: Time Magazine - July 15, 1935 (Published weekly by Time, Inc.)
Author: Anonymous
Description: Citizens bent on refining Pittsburgh's ebullient Mayor William Nissley McNair last fortnight took him to Kaufmann's Department Store to see "Broadacre City," a scale model of a modernistic decentralized community by Radical Architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Mayor McNair whistled, let fly: "It's all right but you could never put Democrats in there. What if they'd want to get drunk or visit somebody's wife? This thing is Utopia. I'll bet they even tell you how many babies to have in each house. I just sent a gang of drunks to the workhouse. Put that bunch in Wright's village and it wouldn't be two weeks before they'd wreck it. This town is built for a lot of social workers."
"The Mayor," snapped sinewy, grey-maned Architect Wright, "knows next to nothing about drunks, babies or Democracy." Furious Mr. Wright's opinion of Pittsburgh shortly appeared in the Sun-Telegraph: "Pittsburgh as a centralization is obsolescent.
Last week when Architect Wright turned up in Pittsburgh, newshawks took him on a tour of the city. Passing over slums, mills, grimy houses, he fixed on the new Mellon Institute, which looks like the Parthenon, snorted: "That's what happens when men get rich and bring Greece to Pittsburgh." Of University of Pittsburgh's Gothic, sky-scraping Cathedral of Learn-ing: "The most stupendous 'Keep off the Grass' sign I've even seen."
"What," asked newshawks, "could be done about Pittsburgh?"
Judged Architect Wright: "It would be cheaper to abandon it!" Includes one portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright. Original cover price 15c. (Sweeney 385)
Size: 8.5 x 11.5
Pages: Pp 44
S#: 0385.00.0323
Portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright published in Time Magazine - July 15, 1935. See additional portraits of Frank Lloyd Wright. See additional Wright portraits...Date: October 25, 1937 Periodical: Time
Author: Anonymous
Description: People: Text & Photo (Sweeney 421)
Size:
Pages: P 68
S#: 0421.00.1200
Date: January 17, 1938 Periodical: Time (Published by Time Inc.)
Author: Cover photograph by Valentino Sara, Inside photographs by Hendrich.
Description: Cover: "His city would be everywhere and nowhere." Art: "Usonian Architecture." Includes biographical information and seven photographs. Valentino Sara also photographed Wright for cover of "A Testament". Original List Price 15 cents. Three Copies. (Sweeney 454)
Size: 8.5 x 11.5.
Pages: Cover, Pp 29-32
S#: 0454.00.0600, 0454.00.0205, 0454.00.0305
Date: 1937 Title: Portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright for cover of Time Magazine.
Description: Wright is wearing a dark jacket, dark suit and tie. He is facing slightly to the right, but looking toward the upper right corner. There is an illustration of Fallingwater behind him. There is also a small Asian figurine behind him on the left. This might indicate that it was photographed at Taliesin, Spring Green. This photograph was published on the cover of Time Magazine, January 17, 1938, which would indicate that the photograph would have been taken in the later part of 1937, so they would have it in time for the January 1938 issue. This photograph was also used on the cover of the 1977 edition of "An Autobiography," Wright, Horizon Press. Text on face: "Photograph of Frank Lloyd Wright, by Valentino Sarra. From: An Autobiography by Frank Lloyd Wright. Publication date: May 12, 1977. $17.50." Stamped on verso: "Jun 21 1977." Photograph by Valentino Sarra.
Size: Original 5 x 7.25 B&W photograph.
S#: 0429.27.1015
Date: January 31, 1938 Periodical: Time
Author: HF Johnson
Description: Reader Response to #0454.01.0600. Letters (one from HF Johnson [Wax])
Size:
Pages: Pp 2, 4-5
S#: 0454.01.0600
Date: February 21, 1938 Periodical: Time
Author: Anonymous
Description: Comments on exhibit of photographs of Fallingwater at Museum of Modern Art - See Book #0430 (Sweeney 432)
Size:
Pages: Pp 53
S#: 0432.00.0901
Date: November 7, 1938 Periodical: Time (Published weekly by Time, Inc. Chicago, IL)
Author: Anonymous
Description: Wright comments on Williamsburg. "In Williamsburg, Va., Architect Frank Lloyd Wright told a dumbfounded audience that the only value of the town’s restoration by the Rockefellers was to ‘Show us how little we need this type of architecture now.’ Said he: ‘What has been done for you, or two you, here in Williamsburg, has advanced out cause for modern organic architecture...’ Up in arms, as one man rose..." Original cover price 15c.
Size: 8.5 x 11.5.
Pages: Pp 37
S#: 0451.00.0612
Date: 1940
Title: Time - February 5, 1940 (Published weekly by Time Inc., Chicago Illinois)
Author: Anonymous
Description: People. White-maimed old Frank Lloyd Wright, dandy of modern architecture (imperial Hotel, Tokyo; Johnson Wax Plant, Racine, Wis., etc.) told Los Angeles it was "a flagrant example of an opportunity that had no attention paid to it – the great American commonplace." Original cover price 15c. (Sweeney 527)
Size: 8.25 x 11.5
Pages: Pp 40
S#: 0522.00.1220Date: November 25, 1940 Periodical: Time (Published weekly by Time Inc., Chicago, IL)
Author: Anonymous
Description: Art: "A City for the Future. Nobody hates cities more than patriarchal U. S. Architect Frank Lloyd Wright. To him Manhattan is a ‘great huddle’ whose skyscrapers are ‘one of the most infernal inventions.’ Nevertheless it was in Manhattan’s great huddle last week that the Museum of Modern Art put on a huge exhibition of the life work of Frank Lloyd Wright... City-Planner Wright, like many another architect, thinks that the bombing of Europe’s cities is likely to be a blessing in disguise. ‘After all,’ says he, ‘what is St. Paul’s? An imitation of St. Peter’s in Rome. I don’t think anyone will miss Wren’s work much. Broadacre is going to England as soon as there is a chance for it to be shown there. This will be immensely beneficial to England." Announcement for the Exhibition entitled "In The Nature of Material. The work of Frank Lloyd Wright". The exhibition catalog was not published until 2004. Original cover price 15c.
Size: 8.25 x 11.5
Pages: Pp 58
S#: 0507.00.0612
Date: December 2, 1940 Periodical: Time
Author: Anonymous
Description: Religion: Something new in churches. Wright design for Community Church, Kansas City. Article and illustration. (Sweeney 525)
Size:
Pages: Pp 38 40
S#: 0525.00.0702
Date: May 4, 1942 Periodical: Time
Author: Anonymous
Description: Art: Usonian Evolution. Biographic information as well as a review of "In the Nature of Materials". (Sweeney 593)
Size:
Pages: Pp 67
S#: 0593.00.1104
Date: September 24, 1945 Periodical: Time (Published weekly by Time, Inc., Chicago, IL)
Author: Anonymous
Description: Art: "Made in Japan, -U.S. Designed. Twelve days after Tokyo’s worst recorded earthquake, famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright received a cablegram from the Japanese baron who ran the Imperial Hotel... Some 400 incendiaries had gutted the south wing, burning out 150 bedrooms. Also destroyed was the Imperial’s fancy Peacock Hall... Last week the hotel’s management (via Domei) begged Wright to come back and rebuild the gutted wing. Said Wright: let the Japs do it themselves." (See Wright’s response.) Includes one photograph of the Imperial Hotel. Original cover price 15c. (Sweeney 633)
Size: 8.25 x 10.75.
Pages: Pg 46
S#: 0633.00.1209
Date: 1945
Title: Time - July 23, 1945 (Published weekly by Time, Inc., Chicago, Illinois)
Author: Anonymous
Description: Art: Museum a la Wright. The darling dean of modern architects announced last week that he had completed plans, and secured backing (a million dollars) for the long-contemplated Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Non-Objective Painting. It sounded like a jumping-off-place for a Buck Rogers, the man from the 25th century. "It will outdo in bazaar appearance any other building in the world," was the verdict of one appraising eye. Fiery old (76) Frank Lloyd Wright, the man who designed it, proudly says that it will be the first building ever conceived in the form of a true logarithmic spiral (descending spiral, widest at the top)... Original cover price 15c... (Sweeney 638)
Size: 8.25 x 10.75
Pages: Pg 72
S#: 0638.00.1220Date: 1945
Title: Time - October 1, 1945 (Published monthly by Time, Inc., Chicago, Illinois)
Author: Anonymous
Description: Optimistic Ziggurat. A spry old man, as regal-looking as a Shakespearean actor, arrived in Manhattan last week to show off his latest creation. Before 68 New York reporters architect Frank Lloyd Wright unwrapped his model for the modern gallery of non-objective painting, which will be built (with Guggenheim money) next spring on Manhattan's upper Fifth Avenue (Time, July 23). To some of the news man, impressed by Architect Wright but irreverent by nature, the model looks something like a big, white ice cream freezer... He added: "There's no reason why New York should keep on building with doors and windows and separate floor slabs one above the other. His building has only two doors (both on the outside; none between floors), one long spiral window, which winds like the floor in gradually expanding, gradually ascending circles. The museum’s wide-open interior is lighted from a dome of pyrex tubing..." Includes one photograph of Frank Lloyd Wright standing next to the model of the Guggenheim. Original cover price 15c. (Sweeney 640)
Size: 8.25 x 10.75
Pages: Pp 74
S#: 0640.00.1220Date: October 29, 1945 Periodical: Time (Published weekly by Time, Inc., Chicago, IL)
Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd
Description: Letters: "Black Time, White Wright. Sirs: I refer to Time’s piece [Sept. 24] on the Imperial Hotel... Let my secretary speak. Quotation of Eugene Masselink: ‘Dear Mr. Wright... I was present when you spoke over the telephone to them and in reply to their questions you said: ‘No, I have received no request from Japan... I have never used the slang myself and I never will...’ "
"The Facts: Domei reported the hotel management’s request, and Time disrespectfully condensed arrogant Architect Wright’s adjectival reaction. - ED." Original cover price 15c.
Size: 8.25 x 10.75.
Pages: Pp 6, 8
S#: 0633.01.1209
Date: January 27, 1947 Periodical: Time - January 27, 1947 (Published weekly by Time, Inc., Chicago, IL)
Author: Anonymous
Description: Art: "Happy Mortuary. The call - long distance from a man named Nicholas P. Daphne - came through at midnight. Silver-maned Frank Lloyd Wright struggled out of bed to answer it, heard an unfamiliar voice at the other end of the wire saying: ‘I’ve got the finest site, in the heart of San Francisco, and I want the finest mortuary in the world. So I figure,’ the voice pursued, ‘I need the finest architect in the world.’ " Article about the Daphne Funeral Chapels (project). Original cover price 20c.
Size: 8.25 x 11.2
Pages: Pp 63
S#: 0699.00.0612
Date: February 9, 1948 Periodical: Time
Author: Photos by Karsh, Guerrero & Stoller
Description: Art: Ahead of His Time. Comments on the January 1948 issue of Architectural Forum (Sweeney 745) devoted to Wright. Includes 7 photos. (Sweeney 722)
Size:
Pages: Pp 68-9
S#: 0722.00.0703
Date: August 15, 1949 Periodical: Time
Author: Anonymous
Description: Art: New Shells. Article about Richard Neutra includes write-up, quote and photo of Wright. Description: Modern Houses... Across the USA. Includes photo of Fallingwater. Size: Size: Pages: Pp 58-65 Pages: Pp 60-61 S#: 0798.02.0802 S#: 0798.03.0802 Date: 1950
Title: Time - July 24, 1950 (Published weekly by Time, Inc., Chicago)
Author: Anonymous
Description: People: Portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright by Harris & Ewing (S#798.25). "No one knows anything about architecture," America’s Frank Lloyd Wright, 81, told students at a London school of architecture." For 500 years the thing has been going downhill until no one knows a good building from a bad one." Then, as he handed out the year-end prizes, architect Wright assured the winners that their achievements meant nothing: "The judges throw out the best and the worst, and prices as a result of competition go to the average of the average of the averages." Original cover price 20c. (Sweeney 819)
Size: 8.25 x 11
Pages: Pp 38
S#: 0819.00.1220Date: 1953
Title: Time - May 25, 1953 (Published weekly by Time, Inc., Chicago, Illinois)
Author: Anonymous
Description: A) Cities. "Very Village-Like." New Yorkers, still discussing Edna Ferber's taunt that their city was "the dirtiest in the world" (Time, May 4), got some new criticism to chew on last week. "I don't think it's filthy," declared famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright, 83, in the big city for a brief inspection hour. "It's a greatly overgrown Village. It has phases unworthy of a great city – trucks mixed with taxi cabs and private conveyances, the whole thing a melee, and then the garbage set out on the streets. Very village-like." Wright added that Alexander Wolcott had once declined New Yorkers defined New Yorkers as "Midwesterners with ulcers." Includes one portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright by Fred Stein. (Sweeney 961)
Size: 8.25 x 11
Pages: Pp 25 and Pp 94
S#: 0961.00.1220Date: August 10, 1953 Periodical: Time (Canadian Edition) (Published weekly by Time International of Canada Ltd., Montreal, Quebec.)
Author: Anonymous, Wright
Description: "Naughty Nautilus. For the better part of his 84 years, Frank Lloyd Wright, the grand, infuriating and tireless old nautilus of U.S. architecture , has built ever more amazing mansions, put ever vaster domes over such projects as a mortuary in San Francisco, a chapel for Florida Southern College, a laboratory tower for Johnson Wax. When the Guggenheim Foundation asked him in 1945 to build an art museum for Manhattan’s upper Fifth Ave..." Article on the Guggenheim Museum. Includes one of Wright’s illustrations for the Guggenheim Museum. Original cover price 20c.
Size: 8.25 x 11.
Pages: Pp 60
S#: 0953.00.0612
Date: 1953
Title: Time - November 9, 1953 (Published weekly by Time Inc., Chicago, Illinois)
Author: Anonymous
Description: Frank Lloyd Wright’s exhibit, "Sixty Years of Living Architecture," New York. Wright’s Might. "Early in life," says Frank Lloyd Wright, "I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. Today, at 84, architect Wright would never be accused of humble hypocrisy. But he is also revered, at home and abroad, as the world’s greatest living architect. Last week the U.S. could take a long backward look at the array of Wright’s achievements expressed both in words and deeds... Original cover price 20c. 8.25 x 11 (Sweeney 987)
Size:
Pages: Pp 74
S#: 0987.00.1220Date: 1954
Title: Time - March 22, 1954 (Published monthly by Time, Inc., Chicago, Illinois)
Author: Anonymous
Description: The Masieri Memorial Building, Venice (Project). Wright or Wrong. The Grand Canal of Venice is the most spectacular of all municipal thoroughfares. Graceful gondolas and chugging motorboats travel its waters, and its banks are lined with great pink-tinted palazzi, decorated with balconies and frills of cake-icing beauty and delicacy. Last week Venetians and Venetian-lovers were engaged in a heated esoteric and sentimental wrangle with the advocates of progress and modern architecture. The issue: a proposal to construct a house designed by U. S. Architect Frank Lloyd Wright on a curve of the Grand Canal. It all started in 1952 when a wealthy Italian contractor named Paolo Masieri commissioned Architect Wright to design a building as a memorial to Masieri‘s son Angelo, killed in an automobile accident in the U. S... Original cover price 20c. (Sweeney 1043)
Size: 8.25 x 11
Pages: Pp 92
S#: 1043.00.1220Date: August 2, 1954 Periodical: Time (Published weekly by Time, Inc., Chicago)
Author: Anonymous
Description: Art: “The Wright Word”. “Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, ensconced in Manhattan’s Plaza Hotel, began to get things rolling last week for the building of his spiral-shaped Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum." He also comments on The Plaza, New York, The Age, Architecture and Talk. Original cover price twenty cents. (Sweeney 1045)
Size: 8.25 x 11.
Pages: Pp 61
S#: 1045.00.0307
Date: July 25, 1955
Title: Time - 7/25/55 (Published weekly by Time, Inc. Chicago)
Author: Anonymous
Description: "The American Desert, 1955. A new way of life in the U.S. To the ordinary air traveler winging across the U. S. Southwest, the great American desert still seems an arid and forbidding waste of sand dry lake beds and jagged rock mountain... In Arizona’s Paradise Valley, where Frank Lloyd Wright and his students at nearby Taliesin West design homes for desert living. Realtor Merle Cheney bought 6,000 acres of land for as low as 25c an acre, now sells it at prices up to $3,000 an acre..." Caption: "Sunbonnet Roof, for comfortable desert living, was designed by Architect Frank Lloyd Wright to protect this Phoenix house from glare and heat." Includes one photograph of the Boomer Residence. The Benjamin Adelman Residence can be seen in the background. Original cover price 25c.
Size: 8.25 x 11
Pages: Pp 44-53
S#: 1092.101.0317Date: June 11, 1956 Periodical: Time
Author: Anonymous
Description: A review of author Jacques Barzun’s work. Includes a mention and portrait of Wright.
Size:
Pages: Pp Cover 57-62
S#: 1130.00.1202
Date: July 2, 1956 Periodical: Time
Author: Anonymous
Description: The 20th Century Form Givers. Portrait and paragraph about Wright. (Sweeney 1131) Description: Art: The Maturing Modern. Article about Saarinen. Includes comments on Wright, and photo of the Price Tower. Size: Size: Pages: Pp 51 Pages: Pp 51, 50-7 S#: 1131.00.0802 S#: 1131.01.0802 Date: 1956 Title: Time - September 10, 1956 (Published by Time, Inc., New York)
Author: Anonymous
Description: (Mile High Building) In Chicago, testy old (87) Architect Frank Lloyd Wright casually disclosed his latest high-flown fantasy: a one-mile-high, 510-story office building for the Loop. Topped with a 330-ft. TV antenna, it would be four times taller than the Empire State Building. "It’s perfectly scientific, and perfectly feasible.’ he said, brushing aside questions on how he would get 100,000 office workers in and out of the building on time, or what he would do about the planes that cross the area at considerably less than 5,600 ft..." (It shows the short sidedness of the reporter and the far reaching genius of Wright.) Original cover price 20c.
Size: 8.5 x 11
Pages: Pp 52
S#: 1131.02.0815
Date: 1957
Title: Time - November 11, 1957 (Published weekly by Time, Inc., Chicago, Illinois)
Author: Anonymous Author: Bulpitt, Thomas H. Description: People: Two old oracles – Poet Carl Sandburg, 77, and Cantankerous Architectitan Frank Lloyd Wright, 87 – played ring-around-the-microphone in what was billed as "the world’s first educational TV spectacular" on Chicago's knowledge-spraying station WTTW. They wrangled cordially about skyscrapers and cities, commuters and sovereign individuals, modern cars and ferry boats (the same thing, cried Wright), the human spirit v. science. In a typical exchange, Iconoclast Wright rumbled: "Americans cannot claim a culture of their own!" Replied American Culturist Sandberg: "what about Walt Whitman? "Wright snorted: "Oh. Walt. You're talking about the English influences that our ancestors came over with – their lace at their wrists and buckles on their shoes... Includes on photograph of Wright and Sandburg by Arthur Siegel. (similar to #1205.48). Description: Letters: Modern Mayan. Sir: Those early Mayan archaeological discoveries (Oct. 21) look Frank Lloyd Wright inspired. Of course, no offense intended to either architect. Includes one photograph of the Barnsdall Residence. Original cover price 25c. Size: 8.5 x 11. Pages: Pp 47 Pages: Pp 12, 16 S#: 1184.00.1220 Date: March 2, 1959 Periodical: Time
Author: Anonymous
Description: New World Synagogues (Beth Sholom Synagogue)
Size:
Pages: Pp 44-45
S#: 1377.01.1101
Date: April 2, 1959 Periodical: Time
Author: Anonymous
Description: Native Genius. (Wright’s Obituary) (Sweeney 1341)
Size:
Pages: Pp 80 83
S#: 1341.00.0302
Date: November 2, 1959 Periodical: Time - November 2, 1959 (Published weekly by Time Inc., Chicago, Illinois)
Author: Anonymous
Description: Last Monument. Wright’s Guggenheim Museum: Mighty Tower & Babel of Discord. "A war between architecture and painting, in which both come out badly maimed," declared Art Critic John Canaday on Page One of the New York Times; "The most beautiful building in America," retorted Critic Emily Genauer in the New York Herald Tribune. "A building that should be put in a museum to show how mad the 20th Century is," editorialized the New York Daily Mirror. "Mr. Wright's greatest building, New York's greatest building." said Architect Philip Johnson, "one of the greatest rooms of the 20th century." "Frank has really done it," snapped one artist. "He has made painting absolutely unimportant." Includes two photographs of the Guggenheim by J. Alex Longley. Original cover price 25c. (Sweeney 1329)
Size: 8.25 x 11
Pages: Pp 67
S#: 1329.00.0302
Date: August 18, 1961 Periodical: Time (Published weekly by Time, Inc., Chicago)
Author: Anonymous
Description: “Teacup Dome. Architect Frank Lloyd Wright has been dead for two years, but monuments to his originality are still going up. Now another of his last major buildings - the Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation at Wauwatosa is all but finished, and sightseers as well as worshipers are crowing to see it.” Includes one photograph by Eric Schaal. Original cover price 25 cents. (Sweeney 1481)
Size: 8.3 x 11.
Pages: Pg 50
S#: 1481.00.0607
Date: December 18, 1964 Periodical: Time
Author: Anonymous
Description: Modern Living Section: The City. Article includes text and photos on the Grady Gammage Auditorium
Size:
Pages: Pp 46-56
S#: 1596.02.0202
Date: October 5, 1983 Periodical: Time
Author: Anonymous
Description: Letters: Reprint of a 1945 letter by Wright & a quote by Masselink. Responding to a September 24 article about himself. (S#633) Also includes an autograph. Description: Art: Usonian Architecture. Condensed reprint of a 1938 article . (Sweeney 454) Size: Size: Pages: Pp 13-14 Pages: Pp 124 S#: 1983.09.0203 S#: 1983.10.0203 Date: July 10, 1989 Periodical: Time (Published weekly by The Time Inc. Magazine Company, New York)
Author: Andersen, Kurt
Description: “Design: Antoni Gaudi meets Frank Lloyd Wright. A grand Folly in Ottawa. Canada’s newest museum is costly, controversial and curious.” Article only makes reference to Wright. Original cover price $2.00.
Size: 8 x 11.
Pages: Pp 3, 64
S#: 1989.38.0706
Date: Covering History, Time Magazine Covers 1923-1997 (1998) Periodical: Covering History, Time Magazine Covers 1923-1997 (Published and updated in 1973, 1983, 1991, 1998 by Time Inc.)
Author: Isaacson, Walter
Description: "In 1923 America was busy doing what it does best: reinventing itself for the challenge to the future... Two young graduates of Yale University, Briton Hadden and Henry Luce, rose to the challange with a new concept: the weekly news magazine...) Includes every cover published from 1923-1997. Frank Lloyd Wright, January 17, 1938. (First Edition)
Size: 9.75 x 12.5.
Pages: Pp 88
S#: 1998.61.0298
COLLIER'S Date: 1956
Title: Collier’s - August 3, 1956
Author: Gross, Leonard
Description: Listen to Frank Lloyd Wright. (Sweeney 1118)
Size:
Pages: Pp 20-21
S#: 1118.00.1101ESQUIRE Date: 1949
Title: Esquire - January 1944
Author: Photo By Yousuf Karsh Author: Photo By Mat Kauten Description: Faces of Achievement - Frank Lloyd Wright (Sweeney 619) Description: The Prophet Honored in His Country Size: Pages: Pp 42 Pages: Pp 43 S#: 0786.00.0302 S#: 0786.01.0302 Date: 1958
Title: Esquire - October 1958
Author: Frank Lloyd Wright
Description: Away with the Realtor
Size:
Pages: Pp 179-80
S#: 1252.00.0501LET'S SEE Date: 1959
Title: Let’s See - May 22 - June 4, 1959 (Published by Schmidt Publications, Milwaukee)
Author: Anonymous
Description: "An Era Ends." Summary of Wright’s work which includes 17 photographs. Original List Price 15 cents.
Size: 7.25 x 9.5
Pages: Pp Cover, 8-14
S#: 1377.06.0305
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