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Lakeside Monthly - August 1873, Vol X. No. 56 (Published by F. F. Browne & Co., Publishers, Chicago) Edited by: F. F. Browne from April 1869 - close) Founded in January 1869 as the Western Monthly. Francis Fisher Brown began as editor in April, 1869. The name was changed in January, 1871. "...the two most credible periodicals ever produced in Chicago are The Dial and the Lakeside Monthly, And that Mr. Browne has done more for the literary interest of Chicago than any other man in the city... In 1867, Mr. Browne, then a young man of twenty-three, landed in Chicago... The second... Continue... (Relates to Study about Browne’s Bookstore.) Pp 81-160 +14 0000.02.0411 1873
The Aldine, The Art Journal of America - October 1873, Vol. VI, No. 10 (Published by James Sutton & Co., Publishers, New York) Anonymous, Engraving: Linton, Henry. After a painting by Hunt, Holman "The Eve of St. Agnes. There is much of beauty, grace, and sentiment in the beautiful picture from the brush of William Holman Hunt, which we reproduced for The Aldine. Nearly twenty-five years ago Mr. Hunt began to paint those religious and mystical pictures which have since given him such a great reputation in his native England, as well as abroad. ‘The Eve of St. Agnes’ is one of these... His early works were adopted from poetry and... Continue... (Relates to study of The Eve of St,. Agnes) Pp Cover (191), 193 0000.03.0511 1880 1880
Harper’s Magazine - January 1880 (Published monthly by Harper & Brothers, New York) Keats, John "The Eve of St. Agnes." First published in 1820 and rejected by the critics. It is the first article published in this issue. Keats based his poem on the tale that a girl could see her future husband in a dream if she performed certain rituals on the eve of St. Agnes. Includes nine illustrations. Eighth illustration: "Pensive awhile she dreams awake." (Note: No where in this issue does Harper's credit the authors or illustrators for any of the article printed.) This is the poem that Winslow... Continue... Pp 161 - 174 0001.03.0510 1884 1884
Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine - February 1884 (Published by The Century Co., New York) Stedman, Edmund C.; "Keats. ...young poets will chance upon one another, among millions; ‘there’s a special providence’ in their conjunction and forgathering, instinct and circumstance join hands to bring this about. The name Keats is set within a circlet of other names, - those of Clarke, Reynolds, Hunt, Charles Brown, the artist Haydon and Severn, - each of which is brighter for the fact that its owner game something f his love an help to the poet whose... Continue... (Relates to study of The Eve of St, Agnes) Pp 599-603 0000.21.0213 1892 1892
American Architect and Building News - December 31, 1892 Ticknor & Co. House of James Charnley, Esq., Astor Street, Chicago, Ill. Helio-Chrome (A naturally colored photograph.) (Sweeney 12) Plate No. 888 0012.00.0504 1892
Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine - December 1892 (Published by J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia) Johnson, Richard Malcolm "This number contains Pearce Amerson’s Will. By Richard Malcolm Johnson, Author of ‘Dukesborough Tales’, ‘Widow Guthrie’, etc. Complete." Title Page: Pearce Amerson’s Will. By Richard Malcolm Johnson, Author of "Dukesborough Tales", "Widow Guthrie", "Old Mark Langston", etc. J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia. This was the first the story was published in full. Six years later, 1896, it was published for the first time in... Continue... (Relates to study of Way & Williams.) Pp 681 - 756 0013.02.0511 1894 1894
Inland Architect & News Record - Vol. XXIV No.1 (August 1894) (Published by the Inland Architect Press) Anonymous "Residence of W. I. Clark, La Grange, Illinois. Frank L. Wright, Architect." W. Irving Clark Residence (S.013 - 1893). In 1887 Wright joined the firm of Adler & Sullivan. To earn extra income Wright designed "bootleg" houses while still working for Adler & Sullivan. The W. Irving Clark house was one of Wright’s first bootleg homes, commissioned in 1892 and completed in 1893. A dispute grew out of his acceptance of independent commissions, and in 1893 Sullivan fired Wright... (Sweeney 16) Continue... Pp 1 0016.00.0811 1895 1895
The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine - October 1895 (Published by The Century Co., New York) West, Kenyon "Keats in Hampstead. The 29th of October, 1895, marks the centenary of the birth of John Keats, and affords a fitting occasion for lovers of his poetry to pay tribute to his fame... Every... Continue... (Relates to study of The Eve of St, Agnes) Pp 898-910 0018.22.0811 van Dyke, Henry "The Influence of Keats... We can trace the influence of Keats not merely in the conscious or unconscious imitations of his manner, like those which are so evident in the early poems of... Continue... (Relates to study of The Eve of St, Agnes) Pp 910-914 0018.23.0811 1897 1897
House Beautiful - February 15, 1897 (Digital) Published monthly by Klapp & Company, Chicago) Anonymous "Successful Houses. III. How often does the architect, while creating the most beautiful effects for others, attain a satisfactory result in his own house? The mind which can plan and originate for a living, seems inadequate when it comes to planning for pleasure alone. Though often good enough as far as mere laying out of rooms goes, the homes of many architects, which naturally should be demonstrations in taste are uninteresting, commonplace and lacking in originality... Continue... (Sweeney 26) Pp Frontispiece, 64-69 0026.00.0116 1898 1898
The Inland Architect And News Record - Vol. XXXI, No.5 (Published by the Inland Architect Press) Anonymous “Residence at Oak Park, Illinois. Frank L. Wright, Architect.” Photograph of the original 1895 home before the fire that destroyed it in 1922. It was reconstructed in 1923 by Wright. IA&NR had a very small circulation at the time and these prints only appeared in a very limited number of issues that were distributed to a few prominent architects. Photogravure only, Hors-texte Plate. 12.75 x 9. (Sweeney 32) Pp 1 0032.00.0606 1898
Arts For America - June 1898, Vol. VII - Nos. 9 and 10. (Published monthly, except July and August in the interest of the Central Art Association and American Art Education, Auditorium Tower, Chicago, Ill..) Wright, Frank Lloyd Wright's First Published Article. "Art in the Home." Read before the Home Decoration and Furnishing Department of the Congress on May 5. (Symposium of the Annual Art Congress held in the Art Institute, Chicago, May 3, 4, and 5, 1898.) 1893 Wright begins his own practice. 1894 (1st), 1895 (2nd) and 1898 (3rd) exhibits work at Chicago Architectural Club. 1986 writes lecture "Architecture, Architect, and Client". Predating this... Continue... For more information on Wright's First Published Article. Pp 579-588 0032.01.1009 1898
Arts For America - June 1898, Vol. VII - Nos. 9 and 10. (Published monthly, except July and August in the interest of the Central Art Association and American Art Education, Auditorium Tower, Chicago, Ill..) Anonymous "Notes From the Congress." "The closing day of the Congress was a perfect symphony... Mr. Frank L. Wright’s ‘Art in the Home’ was a summary of actual experiences gained, from many years of labor in his chosen profession. Many of us have not learned that architecture means the home and its furnishings, but Mr. Wright opened the doorway into a complete symphony of architectural thought in which the family requirements formed the central force." Original cover price 25c. 8 x 11.25. Pp 593-594 0032.02.1009 1899 1899
Inland Architect and News Record - Volume XXXIII No. 1 1899 (Published by The Inland Architect & News Record) Street View Rollin Furbeck Residence. "Residence For Mr. Furbeck, Oak Park, Illinois. Frank L. Wright, Architect." This is one of the earliest photographs of the Furbeck Residences and captures Wright’s original intent. The Porte Cochere is on the left, with the driveway leading in from the street. By the 1940s the Porte Cochere had been enclosed, and the driveway removed. The entrance was reached through low capped walls that were removed by the 1940s. The transition from... Continue... (Sweeney 36) Pp 1 0036.00.1016 1899
House Beautiful - December 1899 (Digital) (Published monthly by Herbert S. Stone & Company, Chicago)
Granger, Alfred H. "An Architects Studio. When one attempts to describe almost any modern building, the first question to be asked is, ‘What style?’ ...One of the most radical of these opponents is Mr. Frank L. Wright, whose house and studio I have the privilege of describing... One’s first impression of the dinning-room is its simplicity – no rugs, no curtains, and only the necessary furniture, which, however, is in perfect harmony with the room. One entire end of the room opposite the... Continue... (Sweeney 35) Pp 36-45 0035.00.0116 1900 1900
Architectural Review, VII #6 - June 1900 Spencer, Robert C., Jr "The Work of Frank Lloyd Wright" (Sweeney 41) Pp 61-72 0041.00.1100 1900
The Book Buyer, A Review and Record of Current Literature - May 1900 (Published monthly by Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York) Cheney, John Vance "Francis Fisher Browne. While most readers of our distinctively critical periodicals are familiar with the Dial, few, perhaps, know more than the name of the man that founded it, the present editor and proprietor; and as the Dial celebrates, this month, its twentieth anniversary, it is fitting that some one should do for its editor, Mr. Francis Fisher Browne, the last thing he could be induced to do for himself; namely give some account... Continue... (For additional information see our Study of the Browne's Bookstore.) Pp 301-303 0041.03.0311 1900
The Inland Printer - November 1900 (Published monthly by the Inland Printer Company, Chicago) 1) Seymour, Ralph Fletcher 2) Way, W. Irving 1) Cover designed by Ralph Fletcher Seymour. It also includes and example of a decorative Tailpiece by Seymour, p.337, 474, 2) The December, 1900 issue includes an article by W. Irving Way, "On ‘The Making of Books.’ ...Mr. Seymour's work is not in line with the work of the others mentioned, it is true, but it is an innovation none the less – and perhaps a trifle startling, if not flamboyant in its result. Mr. Seymour's books are printed from blocks reproduced from pen-work, but one ventures to... Continue... Pp Cover, 337, 457, 474, 505-6, 509 0041.20.0116 1900
The Larkin Idea - 1900 (Published by the Larkin Soap Co., Buffalo, NY) Larkin Soap Co. One of the early, if not one of the first Larkin Idea. "The Larkin Idea: Save all Cost which adds no Value, by direct Dealings from Factory to Family." Spend $10 and redeem free premiums: Chautauqua Desk, Chiffonier (dresser), Book-case, Chautauqua Rocker, Chautauqua Morris Chair, Chautauqua Sewing Table, Seth Thomas Mantel Clock, 24 Piece 1847 Rogers Bros. Silverware, Chautauqua Silver Tea Set, sixteen additional premiums. The cover appears to be printed in 10 distinct colors: red... Continue... Pp 28 0041.15.0414 1901 1901
Inland Printer - June 1901 (Published monthly by the Inland Printer Company, Chicago) Anonymous "The Work of Ralph Fletcher Seymour... Wallace Rice refers pleasantly to the art craft in Chicago, mentioning particularly the clever work of Ralph Seymour Fletcher... Not contented with the better trodden paths, he sought some new road in which artistic excellence might find scope, and. cheered by the successes of William Morris and his Kelmscott Press... Four books have thus come from his workshop... These four books are all lettered by hand and printed from plates... Continue... Pp 234 0049.14.0116 1901
Inland Printer - September 1901 (Published monthly by the Inland Printer Company, Chicago) Seymour, Ralph Fletcher Cover designed by Ralph Fletcher Seymour. "The cover-designs of The Inland Printer, which for some years past have been changed every month, are one of its most attractive features. The Inland Printer was the first publication in the country to change its covers every month... Among the designers of the covers are such artists as Bradley, Bird, Leyendecker, Hapgood. Wright, Traver, Goudy, Seymour, Craig and others...." The June 1901 issue, p.187. (Digital and printed copy) 8 x 11 Pp Cover 0049.15.0116 1901
Kindergarten Magazine - January 1901 (Published by the Kindergarten Magazine Company, Fine Arts Building, Chicago) Seymour, Ralph Fletcher Starting with the January, 1901, Volume XIII, No. 5, the cover was designed by Ralph Fletcher Seymour. Designed to imitate old wood block prints. Page one was also two color, with a decorative initial cap matching the cover and was hand-lettered. April issue, page 474: "An unusual method in book making is being developed by Ralph Fletcher Seymour, whose office is in the Fine Arts Building. With the purpose of securing more perfect unity between the format of a book and... Continue... Cover 0049.12.0116 1901
Kindergarten Magazine - March 1901 (Published by the Kindergarten Magazine Company, Fine Arts Building, Chicago) Anonymous "The Fine Arts Building, Chicago... This impressive building marks a unique step in business enterprise. As its name indicates, it is devoted to the exclusive use of the artist world. The idea of such an office building matured slowly in the mind of its present manager, Mr. C. C. Curtis, for fifteen years... Among the prominent social organizations that center here is the Chicago Women’s Club... Other literary and social clubs that find a home here are the Caxton, the Fortnightly, the Young... Continue... Pp 418-422 0049.13.0116 1901
Ladies Home Journal - February 1901 (Published Monthly by The Curtis Publishing Company, Philadelphia) Wright, Frank Lloyd “A Home in a Prairie Town” Full page includes seven illustrations. Original cover price 10 cents. 11 x 16.5. (Sweeney 45) Pp 17 0045.00.0207 1901
Ladies Home Journal - July 1901 (Published Monthly by The Curtis Publishing Company, Philadelphia) Wright, Frank Lloyd A Small House with "Lots of Room in It" Original cover price 10 cents. 11 x 16.5. Two Copies. (Sweeney 46) Pp 15 0046.00.0900 0046.01.0900 1902 1902
Inland Architect and News Record - Volume XXXIX No. 6 1902 (Published by The Inland Architect & News Record) Anonymous Street View Frank Wright Thomas Residence. "Residence Oak Park, Illinois. Frank L. Wright, Architect." It is considered to be the first fully developed prairie styled house in Oak Park. It is also the first house in Oak Park to be completely designed in Stucco. Upon entering the front door, stairs lead up to the main living quarters on the second level. The bedrooms on the third floor. Some of the design features included beaded molding and exquisite leaded glass windows. (Sweeney 52)... Continue... Pp 1 0052.00.1016 1902
Ladies Home Journal - November 1902 Anonymous (Photo - Frank Lloyd Wright Dining Room) Pp 8 0052.01.0701 1903 1903
Ladies Home Journal - January 1903 Anonymous Inside of a hundred suburban homes (Photo - Frank Lloyd Wright Dining Room) Pp 24 0054.01.0400 1904 1904
The House Beautiful - March 1904 (Published by Herbert S. Stone, Chicago)
Colson, Ethel M. "A Yellow Dining-Room". The Warren McArthur house. Includes two interior photos. Original List Price 20 cents. 7 x 9.75. (Sweeney 55) Pp 208-10 0055.00.0105 1904
The Larkin Idea - November 1904 (Published monthly by The Larkin Co., Publishers, Buffalo, NY) Anonymous Frank Lloyd Wright’s designs for the Larkin Administration building were completed in 1904. The finished building was not ready for occupancy until August 1906. This issue does not include any design elements or hints of the Wright designed administration building. Original cover price 50c per year (12 issues). 5.3 x 8.5 Pp 32 0055.07.0915 1905 1905
Inland Architect and News Record - Volume XLVI No. 1 1905 (August 1905) (Published by The Inland Architect & News Record) Anonymous Street View William G. Fricke Residence From the Southwest. "Residence, W. G. Fricke, Oak Park, ILL. Frank L. Wright, Architect." Like the Thomas Residence, also 1901 and in Oak Park, it is an all-stucco exterior. But unlike the Thomas Residence which is considered Frank Lloyd Wright’s first fully developed prairie styled house in Oak Park, it includes elements of Wright’s transitional designs like the Rollin Furbeck Residence: Corners turned at a 45 degree angle; Massive central... Continue... (Sweeney 56) Pp 1 0056.00.1116 1905
The Larkin Idea - July 1905 (Published monthly by The Larkin Co., Publishers, Buffalo, NY) Larkin Co. Illustration on page 1 includes the Larkin Administration Building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1903. Original cover price 50c per year (12 issues). 5.2 x 8.25. Pp 1 0058.04.0812 1905
Larkin Idea Order Sheet Insert, 1905 (Published by The Larkin Co., Publishers, Buffalo, NY) Larkin Co. Inset into the July 1905 Larkin Idea, this order sheet was for ordering Larkin products. List on products are on the second page. 11 x 8.5. Pp 2 0058.05.0812 1905
The Sketch Book - September 1905 (The Sketch Book is published monthly by The Sketch Book Publishing Co., Fine Arts Building, Chicago. Note: This early article was missed by both Sweeney and Langmead and may offer some of the earliest photographs of the Thomas Residence.) Morris, Alfred Frank Thomas Residence (1901 - S.067) "A Constant Home. Design and ornament in the home is of such vast importance, that when one comes across a worthy example - one that is consistent and sane - it would surely seem indifferent not to praise. The examples of the exterior and interior applications of design, in the photographs herewith, are ones that have not only a most harmonious consistency, but they also exhibit originality; originality not of the clever sort, but that of... Continue... Pp 37-41 0058.13.0116 1905
The Sketch Book - September 1905 (The Sketch Book is published monthly by The Sketch Book Publishing Co., Fine Arts Building, Chicago.) Seymour, Ralph Fletcher Two bookplates designed by Ralph Fletcher Seymour. For George Barr McCutcheon and Preston A. Perry. "Books are a part of mans prerogative. In formal ink they thoughts and voices hold. That we to them our solitude may give. And make time present travelled that of old." (Digital and printed copy) 7.5 x 10.5 Pp 43 0058.14.0116 1905
The Sketch Book - December 1905 (The ketch Book is published monthly by The Sketch Book Publishing Co., Fine Arts Building, Chicago. Note: Cover designed by Ralph Fletcher Seymour) Hosking, Arthur Nicholas "A Few Books and Their Maker. It is no easy matter to write a truthful criticism of a personal friend's work. Close contact multiplies feelings and emotions. A man’s theories may be more interesting than his work, and vice versa... This fact, however, does not detract from the things of beauty he has created, of which there are a great number... The pages shown... display the high standard chosen when he first launched into the affairs of bookmaking... With all Mr. Seymour's books rarely... Continue... Pp 179-186 0058.15.0116 1906 1906
The Century Magazine - February 1906 (Published monthly by The Century Co, New York. MacMillan and Co. Ltd, London.) Sharp, William, Editor of "The Severn Memoirs". "The Portraits of Keats. With special references to those by Severn. In point of date the first likeness Keats is possibly the profile in charcoal by Joseph Severn now in Forster Collection at the South Kensington Museum Mr. Buxton Forman specifically states that it is the earliest of drawings of Keats from the life and neither in the Severn manuscripts memoirs notes and fragmentary... Continue... More information on the Portraits of Keats. (Relates to study of The Eve of St, Agnes) Pp 535-551 0064.05.1211 1906
The House Beautiful - June 1906 (Bound Volume) (Published monthly by The House Beautiful Company, Chicago) Percival, C.E. A House on a Bluff (Sweeney 62) Pp 11-13 0062.00.0101 1906
The House Beautiful - August 1906 (Bound Volume) (Published monthly by The House Beautiful Company, Chicago) Percival, C.E. A House without a Servant (Sweeney 63) Pp 13-14 0063.00.0101 1906
The House Beautiful - July 1906 (Published monthly by The House Beautiful Company, Chicago) Percival, C.E. "Solving a Difficult Problem. A House at South Bend, Indiana; Frank Lloyd Wright Architect. A common problem, and one not easy to solve, is the semi-urban dwelling in a neighborhood where land is expensive, and fifty feet of ground is the width of the usual lot... The De Rhodes House (1906 S.125)... is one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s solutions of this difficult problem." Includes one illustration. Original cover price 20 cents. 9.75 x 13. Two copies, one bound. (Sweeney 64) Pp 20-21 0064.00.0101 0064.00.0910 1906
The Larkin Idea - March 1906 (Published monthly by The Larkin Co., Publishers, Buffalo, NY) Anonymous Frank Lloyd Wright’s designs for the Larkin Administration building were completed in 1904. The finished building was not ready for occupancy until August 1906. This issue includes the new Wright designed administration building in the masthead illustration on page 1, and also incorporated the "LC" monogram into it. Original cover price 50c per year (12 issues). 5.25 x 8.25 Pp 32 0064.17.0915 1906
The Larkin Idea - May 1906 (Published monthly by The Larkin Co., Publishers, Buffalo, NY) Larkin Co. Illustration on page 1 includes the Larkin Administration Building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1903. Original cover price 50c per year (12 issues). 5.25 x 8.25. Pp 1 0064.09.0812 1906
Larkin Idea, The - July 1906 (Published monthly by the Larkin Co., Buffalo) Larkin Co. Page one - Illustration of campus with Wright designed Larkin Headquarters. Original List Price 50 cents a year. 5.25 x 8.25 Pp 32 0064.19.0216 1906
The Sketch Book. A Magazine Devoted to the Fine Arts - August 1906 (Published by The Sketch Book Publishing Co. Fine Arts Building, Chicago.) Seymour, Ralph Fletcher Cover designed by Ralph Fletcher Seymour whose office was also located in the Fine Arts Building (Browne's Bookstore). Original cover price 20c. 8 x 10.5 Pp Cover 0064.16.0415 1907 1907
American Architect and Building News - August 24, 1907 (Published every Saturday by Swetland Publishing Co., New York) Anonymous Three plates of the Susan Laurence Dana House (1902 - S.072), were published in the August 24, 1907 issue. A) View from the East. Text on face: "House of Mrs. Mary Lawrence, Springfield, Ill. Frank Lloyd Wright Architect. Copyright 1907, by the Swetland Publishing Co. The American Architect and Building News. Regular Edition. Volume XCII., Number 1652. August 24, 1907. (Photographic... (Sweeney 69) ... Continue...
Plates (3) 0069.00.0317 (A-C) 1907
Inland Architect & News Record, Volume L (50), July 1907 (Published by The Inland Architect & News Record) Anonymous Front View. "Administration Building for the Larking Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect." Photogravure only, no text, Hors-texte Plate, printed single side only. (Copy) 7 x 10. Courtesy of The Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson & Burnham Archives. (Sweeney 71) Pp 1 0071.00.0514 A 1907
Inland Architect & News Record, Volume L (50), July 1907 (Published by The Inland Architect & News Record) Anonymous View of the east side. "Administration Building for the Larking Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect." Photogravure only, no text, Hors-texte Plate, printed single side only. (Copy) 7 x 10. Courtesy of The Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson & Burnham Archives. (Sweeney 71) Pp 1 0071.00.0514 B 1907
Inland Architect & News Record, Volume L (50), July 1907 (Published by The Inland Architect & News Record) Anonymous "Interior View, Administration Building for the Larking Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect. (See descriptive article.)" Photogravure, Hors-texte Plate, printed single side only. (Copy) 7 x 10. Courtesy of The Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson & Burnham Archives. (Sweeney 71) Pp 1 0071.00.0514 C 1907
The Larkin Idea - May 1907 (Published monthly by the Larkin Co., Buffalo) Anonymous "The Inscription on the Court of the Administration Building. On the magnesite panels between the capitals surmounting the columns that form the central sky-lighted court in... Continue... Pp 1-2 5-6 11-13 0072.00.1114 Anonymous "The Larkin Auto Service and the Larkin Factories..." Includes one photograph of the Larkin Building. Pp 5-6 Anonymous "Our Jamestown Exhibit. ...The architect, Mr. Frank Lloyd Wright, has designed a building for us which will be unusually beautiful and at the same time provide appointments well... Continue... Pp 11-13 1907
The Larkin Idea - August 1907
Anonymous Our Jamestown Exhibit. About the Larkin Company exhibition pavilion at the Jamestown Ter-Centennial Exposition. Includes photo. (Sweeney 73) Pp 16-17 0073.00.0404 Twitmyer, Geo. E. A Model Administration Building. About the Larkin Building. This is a slightly abridged reprint of an article published in the Business Man’s Magazine, April 1907. Includes eight photos. Pp 1-8 0073.01.0404 Anonymous Some Photographed views from the Home of the Larkin Idea. Includes interior photos of building. Pp Cv2 0073.02.0404 1907
Larkin Co. Order Form, 1907 Larkin Co. Order form was folded inside the August 1907 issue. 0073.03.0404 1907
Inland Architect & News Record, Volume L (50), September 1907 (Published by The Inland Architect & News Record) Anonymous "Remodeled Entrance. The Rookery Building. Chicago. Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect for Remodel. Work Executed by the Davis Marble Co., Chicago." Photogravure only, no text, Hors-texte Plate, printed single side only. (Copy) 7 x 10.25. Courtesy of The Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson & Burnham Archives. (Sweeney 75) Pp 1 0075.00.0512 1907
Inland Architect & News Record, Volume L (50), December 1907 (Published by The Inland Architect & News Record) Anonymous "Residence of Mr. Moore, Oak Park, Ill. Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect." This is actually the Mary and Edward R. Hills Remodeling (1900, 1906 - S.051). Mary Hills was Nathan G. Moore's daughter. He hired Wright to remodel the home as a wedding gift for his daughter. Photogravure only, no text, Hors-texte Plate, printed single side only. (Copy) 7 x 10. Courtesy of The Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson & Burnham Archives. (Sweeney 77) Pp 1 0077.00.0512 1907
Inland Architect & News Record - Volume L (50), November 1907 (Published by The Inland Architect & News Record) Anonymous "Residence of P. A. Beachy, Oak Park, Ill. Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect." Photogravure only, no text, Hors-texte Plate, printed single side only. (Copy) 7 x 10. Courtesy of The Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson & Burnham Archives. (Sweeney 78) Pp 1 0078.00.0613 1907
Ladies Home Journal - April 1907 Wright, Frank Lloyd A Fireproof House for $5000 (Sweeney 80) Pp 24 0080.00.0501 1907
The Larkin Idea - January1907 (Published on the first day of each month by the Larkin Co., Buffalo, NY) Anonymous Page one - Illustration of campus with Wright designed Larkin Headquarters. Original List Price 50 cents a year. 5 x 8 Pp 32 0080.18.0213 1907
The Larkin Idea - March 1907 (Published on the first day of each month by the Larkin Co., Buffalo, NY) Anonymous "Larkin Co. at Jamestown Ter-Centennial. Along with the many beautiful structures that will soon be completed on the grounds of the great Jamestown Exhibition is the private building of Larkin Co. In this building there will be an interesting display of the Larkin Products and Premiums... The Larkin Building is intended for the entertainment and comfort of the hosts of our friends and customers that will attend the exhibition. ...the object of the Jamestown Exhibition is primarily to celebrate... Continue... Pp 26-28 0080.10.1110 1907
Larkin Idea, The - June 1907 (Published on the first day of each month by the Larkin Co., Buffalo, NY) Anonymous Page one - Illustration of campus with Wright designed Larkin Headquarters. Page 15, "Arbor Day at Larkin Co. Bringing a beautiful elm into the grounds of our new Administration Building where it was transplanted. The tree was carefully taken up, loaded on a special truck and brought clear across the city to its new home." Original List Price 50 cents a year. 5 x 8 Pp 32 0080.28.0415 1907
The Larkin Idea - July 1907 (Published by Larkin Company, Buffalo)
Anonymous "Beauty Wrought by Gardener and Architect." The Larkin Administration Building Conservatories. Includes three photographs. Note: Graphic designs on cover taken from Wright’s interior designs. Original List Price 42 Cents (50 cents per year). 5 x 8. Pp 2-3 0080.03.0205 1908 1908
Inland Architect & News Record - Volume LII December 1908 (Published by The Inland Architect & News Record) Anonymous "Unity Temple and Unity House, Oak Park, Ill. Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect." Photogravure only, no text, Hors-texte Plate, printed single side only. (Copy) 7 x 10. Courtesy of The Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson & Burnham Archives. (Sweeney 84) Pp 1 0084.00.0914 1908
The Larkin Idea - February 1908 The Larkin Company Photo of exterior and interior of the Larkin Building. Also note the cover design. The elements on the cover are elements on the interior of the building. Also includes original mailing envelope. Pp 1, 7 0085.01.0702 1908
House Beautiful - November 1908 (Published monthly by The House Beautiful Company, Chicago) Spencer, Robert C., Jr. “Decorative use of Stucco and Cement.” Although Spencer does not mention Wright in the article, three of the photographs are Wright houses, and he is mentioned in the captions (Winslow 1894, Heller 1896). Original cover price $0.25. 9.75 x 13. Pp 133-137 0085.04.0907 1908
The Chicago Alumni Magazine - March 1908 (Published monthly by The University of Chicago Alumni Association, The University of Chicago, Chicago.) Advertisement: Como Orchard Land Co. "An Unusual Opportunity." Half page ad for the Como Orchard Land Co. "University Heights, Community and Orchard... with a plan of providing for each investor a summer cabin in an attractive village community. A few Five and Ten-Acre Tracts still available in he division reserved for the University of Chicago..." Related to the Como Orchard Summer Colony (S.144). Original cover price 25c. 9 x 6.5. Digital copy. For more information on the Como Orchard Summer Colony see our Wright Study. P 21 0085.07.1109 1909 1909
Little Journeys To The Homes of Great Business Men - November 1909 (Published six times a year by Elbert Hubbard, Editor and Publisher, East Aurora, New York) Hubbard, Elbert This volume is a biography of H. H. Rogers and includes a portrait. "Done into a Book by the Roycrofters at Their Shop Which Is in East Aurora (a Buffalo suburb), Erie County, New York." Cover design by Dard Hunter. The Larkin Soap Company was founded in Buffalo in 1875, founded by John D. Larkin. Other principles in the company were his two brothers-in-law Elbert Hubbard and William Heath; and Darwin D. Martin, a non-family member. Hubbard is credited for the... Continue... Pp 127-164 0086.11.0913 1909
Overland Monthly - January 1909 (Published monthly by The Overland Monthly Company, San Francisco, CA and Butte, Montana) Teale, George M. "The Bitter Root Valley." Description and information on the Bitter Root Valley. Includes 22 photographs. Includes information on the Bitter Root Valley Irrigation Co. and W.I. Moody. "...and some day the inhabitants will look back to these days and bless the day that the B. R. V. I. Co. was organized." Moody was involved in financing and promoting the Como Orchard Summer Colony, University Heights (S.144) and... Continue... For more information on the Bitter Root Inn see our Wright Study. Pp 59-69 0086.01.1009 1910 1910 The International Studio, An Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art - February 1910 (Published monthly by John Lane Company, New York. One copy single February issue, rebound in a hard cover by the Rosenberg Library, Galveston, TX. One copy is a bound Hard Cover which includes November and December, 1909. January and February, 1910.) Anonymous "Art Gallery Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect. The new art galleries of W. Scott Thurber, in Chicago, show the fortunate result of treating the housing problem involved with serious attention to the architectural requirements, and of finding a sympathetic architect for the task." Article about the Thurber Art Gallery "...situated in the top and fifth floor of the Fine Arts Building in a new addition to the building proper (the Annex)." Includes three photographs... Continue... (Sweeney 94) Pp XCV -XCVI 0094.00.0402 0094.13.0111 1911 1911
Reprint of ‘The Western Architect’, December 1911 (S#102)."City National Bank of Mason City, Iowa." Includes eight photographs and the floor plan. 1911 Architectural Record - October 1911 Anonymous A departure from Classic Tradition: Two Unusual Houses by Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright. Babson House (Sullivan) and Coonley House (Wright). Pp 326-38 0104.00.0503 1911 Chicago Daily Tribune - Aug 6, 1911. Published by the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago Tribune. Anonymous Cheney Divorces Wife Who Eloped. Oak Park Man Given Custody of Children She Deserted to Flee Abroad. Affinity Tired of Her. Frank L. Wright Received by Spouse After "Spiritual Hegira." (See full article under references file) 6.5 x 16. Pg 3 0104.03.0609 1911 House Beautiful - October 1911 (Published monthly by The House Beautiful Company, New York) White, Charles E. “House Design: Good Taste and Poor Taste." Image of the Frank Thomas Residence, Oak Park (S.067). “Plate O. - Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect. Casement Window with Pattern of Metal Bar.” Original cover price 25c. 9.25 x 12.75. Pp 132 0104.01.0706 1911 The International Studio - April 1911 (Published Monthly by the John Lane Company, New York) Peattie, Elia W. "The fine Arts Building in Chicago. The Fine Arts Building in Chicago is remarkable among such enterprises as housing within its walls so great a proportion of the artistic, intellectual literary and educational interests of a great city. The building is occupied by sculptors, painters, actors, musicians, writers, illustrators, etchers, gold and silversmiths, carvers, decorators, publishers of special editions... Continue... (For additional information see our Study of the Browne's Bookstore.) Pp XLIV-XLVI 0104.08.0211 1912 1912 Architectural Record - January 1912 (Bound Volume 31) Schuyler, Montgomery Related: The People’s Saving Bank of Cedar Rapids, Iowa - Louis H. Sullivan, Architect. Comment about Wright on page 46. Pp 44-56 0114.01.0502 1912
Architectural Record - April 1912 (Second Copy) (Published monthly by The Architectural Record Company, New York City) (Single issue and Bound Volume 32) Schuyler, Montgomery "An Architectural Pioneer: Review of the Portfolios containing the works of Frank Lloyd Wright." Book review of the 1910 Wasmuth portfolios. "Such works of Frank Lloyd Wright as he thinks worth preserving in pictorial presentation, and as probably profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, have just been issued in two large and handsome portfolios, from the press of Ernst Warmuth [s.i.c.] in Berlin... Meanwhile, it is hard to see how... Continue... (Sweeney 91) Pp 427-436 0091.00.0416 0091.00.0502 1912
American Homes & Garden - March 1912 (Hard bound volume, January - December 1912) (Published monthly by Munn & Co., Inc., New York) Ames, Robert Leonard "A Western Suburban House." The Frank J. Baker Residence, Wilmette, IL (1909 - S.151). "For lack of a better name ‘Western Architecture’ has come to be used in designating the style peculiar to certain of these architects, who have paid particular attention to the building of suburban houses, among whom the name of Frank Lloyd Wright, who designed the house at Wilmette, Illinois, here illustrated, stands conspicuously prominent in any discussion of the distinct... Continue... (Sweeney 112) Pp 86-89 0112.00.0214 1912 Architectural Record - August 1912 (Bound Volume 32) Gilbert, Cass; Frank Lloyd Wright Daniel Hudson Burnham, An Appreciation. Includes a eulogy by Wright on page 184. (Sweeney 114) Pp 175-85 0114.00.0502 1912 Country Life in America - September 15, 1912 (Published twice a month by Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, N.Y.) White, Charles E. Jr. “Insurgent architecture in the Middle West. The out-of-the-ordinary style that has been developed by the Chicago School of Architects - Its meaning and its destiny. ...It is to Mr. Wright that we are chiefly indebted for the illustrations used in this article. Mr. Wright has developed insurgent architecture beyond the point where Mr. Sullivan in his prime left it...” Not specifically about Wright, but of the nine photographs six are Wright’s. Also includes one illustration. Original cover price 25 cents. 10.4 x 14.25. Pp 15-18 0114.02.0907 1912 Larkin Idea, The - April 1912 (Published on the first day of each month by the Larkin Co., Buffalo, NY) Anonymous "An Hour At The Home of The Larkin Idea... Every year forty-five thousand people thoroughly enjoy this trip through the Larkin Factories and Administration Building, the later being the largest and most completely appointed private office-building in the world... In the Larkin Restaurant, on the top floor of the Administration Building, Wholesome and dainty refreshments will be served to you and we are quite certain that you will... Continue... Pp Cover 1, 3-5 0114.04.1110 1913 1913 Architectural Record - June 1913 (Published by The Architectural Record Company, New York) Lippincott, Roy A. The Chicago Architectural Club, Notes on the 26th Ann Exhibition. Includes two images by Wright, The Hotel Lake Geneva and The Hotel Madison (project). Original List Price 25 cents. 7 x 10. (Sweeney 117) Pp 567-73 0117.00.0401 1913 Bulletin and Review of the Keats-Shelley Memorial, Rome. No. 2. (Published by The Keats-Shelley Memorial Rome, Printed by Macmillan & Co., Ltd, London. The Macmillan Co., New York.) Edited by: Rodd, Sir Rennell and Gay, H. Nelson Since the publication of the Bulletin and Review of the Keats-Shelley Memorial, Rome No. 1, the development of the Association has been most gratifying to its supporters... Includes articles by H. Buxton Forman, Rennell Rodd, Mrs. Leigh Hunt, Leigh Hunt and Rennell Rodd. It lists the Second Thousand Works acquired by the Library. There are seven plates, one of which is a Portrait of Keats on his death bed by Joseph... Continue... (Relates to study of The Eve of St, Agnes) Pp 197 0120.12.1211 1913 The Brickbuilder - March 1913 (Published by Rogers and Manson Company, New York, Boston) Wright, Frank Lloyd Quarter Page Ad: "Ausgefüührte Bauten und Entwüürfe von Frank Lloyd Wright" 1910. Original List Price 42 Cents. 10.75 x 13.5. Pp Inside Back Cover 0120.01.0305 1913 House Beautiful - October 1913 (Published monthly by The House Beautiful Company, New York) White, Charles E. Jr. “The Best Way to Use Cement”. Incorporating cement plaster as an exterior covering. Although Wright is never mentioned in the article, out of the 13 photographs, five are Wright homes, and two captions credit Wright as the architect. Fig. A Tomek Residence (1904); Fig. D Fricke Residence (1901); Fig. E Coonley Residence (1907); Fig. K Hickox Residence (1900); Fig. L Brown Residence (1905). Original cover price 25c. 9.75 x 12.5. Pp 130-134 0120.02.1006 1913 Banff Crag & Canyon - October 11, 1913 (Published weekly by the Banff Crag & Canyon, Banff, Alberta) Anonymous "Recreation Building. The sealed tenders for the new recreation building to be erected on the south side of the river have been sent to Ottawa, where the decision awarding the contract will be made. Superintendant Clarke hopes to have the building enclosed before cold weather sets in... Work on the recreation grounds has been progressing..." (Photocopy courtesy of the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Alberta.) 2.5 x 4. For more information on the Banff National Park Pavilion see our Wright Study. - 0120.05.0910 1913 Banff Crag & Canyon - October 18, 1913 (Published weekly by the Banff Crag & Canyon, Banff, Alberta) Anonymous "Work is Started - On the New $20,000 Recreation Building. Preliminary work was started... The structure will be of rustic frame, one storey in height, with cement and rubble foundation. The outside dimension will be 50x200 feet... The contract has been awarded to Bennett, Debman & Co., of Calgary, and calls for the completion of the building by the first of May..." (Photocopy courtesy of the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Alberta.) 2.5 x 6.5. For more information on the Banff National Park Pavilion see our Wright Study. - 0120.06.0910 1913 Banff Crag & Canyon - December 6, 1913 (Published weekly by the Banff Crag & Canyon, Banff, Alberta) Anonymous "It is true a recreation building is now under construction... but the building is only suitable for a very few summer sports, picnicers’ lounging place and drinking of afternoon tea, during four months of the year... The original plans, as outlined by men who would use the building as outlined by men who would use the building and presumably know something of what was required, called for... Continue... For more information on the Banff National Park Pavilion see our Wright Study. - 0120.07.0910 1913
The Delineator - November 1913 (Published monthly by The Butterick Publishing Company, New York) Goodnow, Ruby Ross "You Could Plan That Cottage on These New House Designs From Out West. From the Western States has recently come the most original architecture America has yet produced, a startlingly daring departure from all the traditions of our forefathers and yet really beautiful and wholly practical... Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Sullivan and Howard Shaw... Mr. Wright’s house is strikingly suggestive of the great distances of the West, of the long horizontal lines of the plains, of the... Continue... Pp 21 0120.17.0515 1913 The Dial - June 1, 1913 (Published on the 1st and 16th of each month by The Dial Company, Chicago) Anonymous Francis Fisher Browne. 1843-1913. "Something less than three weeks ago there died in California the man who conceived, projected, and for nearly a third of a century conducted this journal... When the regiment was discharged, in 1863, he decided to take up the study of law... and a year or two later began a brief course in the law department of the University of Michigan. He was unable to continue in college... Continue... (For additional information see our Study of the Browne's Bookstore.) Pp 437-443 0120.09.0311 1913 The Dial - June 16, 1913 (Published on the 1st and 16th of each month by The Dial Company, Chicago) Muir, John Eulogy written by John Muir about his friend Browne, and published in the Dial. "Browne the Beloved.* Francis Fisher Browne, or Browne the Beloved as I like to call him, was one of the finest and rarest men I ever knew. During the last five or six years of his life, when I came to know him intimately, my love and admiration have been constantly growing as the noble strength and beauty of his character came more and more... Continue... (For additional information see our Study of the Browne's Bookstore.) Pp 492 0120.10.0311 1913 The American Review of Reviews, July 1913 (Published monthly by The Review of Reviews Company, New York) Edited by Shaw, Albert "The ‘Dial’s’ Puritan Editor. On more than one occasion in years past the Review has made reference to the admirable editorial work of Mr. Francis Fisher Browne, of the Dial (Chicago). The recent death of Mr. Browne in Southern California, after many years of ill-health, has called forth many tributes from literary men and from those of other callings who know and appreciated the qualities of his work... Continue... (For additional information see our Study of the Browne's Bookstore.) Pp 115-116 0120.08.0311 1913
The Mentor - December 15, 1913 (Published by The Mentor Association, Inc. Includes six loose intaglio-gravure portraits of six poets: Browning, Byron, Keats, Shelley, Tennyson, Wordsworth) Mabie, Hamilton W.; Illustration by P. Kramer "Famous English Poets." Article includes information on six poets, including John Keats. "Keats’ Love of Beauty. The poets of the first quarter of the last century died young... Keats at twenty six... Shelley and Keats were rapidly gaining power when the end came." Includes six loose portraits, one of John Keats after... Continue... For more information on the Eve of St. Agnes see our Wright Study.
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Architectural Record - May 1914 (Published by The Architectural Record Company, New York) Wright, Frank Lloyd "In the Cause of Architecture. Second Paper. ‘Style, Therefore, will be the Man. It is His. Let His Forms Alone.’ Note. – In connection with the exhibition at the Chicago Art Institute of the Chicago Architectural Club during April and May, there will be an individual exhibition by Frank Lloyd Wright of the Work done by him since his return from Europe. Some of the subjects shown will be the drawings of the New Imperial Hotel at Tokyo, the Midway Gardens at Chicago... Continue... (Sweeney 124) Pp 405-413 0124.00.0114 1914 Banff Crag & Canyon - June 13, 1914 (Published weekly by the Banff Crag & Canyon, Banff, Alberta) Anonymous "Banff Improvements. Sup’t Clarke went down to Calgary on Monday night and all the city papers, Tuesday, contained articles on ‘Improvements Projected at Banff’... Just what use the government will make of the pavilion erected at the recreation grounds last winter... neglected to inform the press of Calgary... Crag and Canyon has contended that the present building was utterly useless and the money used in construction wasted..." (Photocopy courtesy of the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Alberta.) 2.5 x 6.5. For more information on the Banff National Park Pavilion see our Wright Study. - 0124.10.0910 1914 The Detroit Tribune - August 16, 1914 (Published daily) Anonymous 1) Spring Green, Wis., Aug. 15. - “Negro Fires ‘Love Bungalow.’ Slays Architect’s Soul Mate and Cuts Down Eight Others. Puts Torch to Wisconsin Cottage of Frank Lloyd Wright, of Chicago, and Kills Six and Injures Three as They Crawl Out of Window.” Accounts in graphic detail the death of Mrs. Mamah Bouton Borthwick, her two children Martha and John, four others and two seriously injured. Includes one photograph. 2) Chicago, Aug. 15. - “Frank Lloyd Wright was in his... Continue... 1) Pp 1-2 2) Pg 2
0124.08.0607 1915 1915 The International Studio - May 1915 (Published Monthly by John Lane Co., New York) Sell, Henry Blackman Interpretation, Not Imitation: Work of Frank Lloyd Wright. Includes seven photographs of Midway Gardens. Original Cover Price 50 cents. (Sweeney 127) Pp 79-83 0127.00.0501 Ad - Chicago Portland Cement Photo of Midway Garden "Spindle" Sprite. Original Cover Price 50 cents. Pp b 23 0127.01.0501 1915 Architectural Record - October 1915 (Published by The Architectural Record Company, New York) White, Peter B. "Country House Architecture in the Middle West." Includes Wright in text. Also includes five photographs and one illustration of "Estate of Frank Lloyd Wright, Spring Green, Wis." (Taliesin). Original List Price 35 cents. 7 x 10. (Sweeney 128) Pp 385-395 0128.00.0405 Ad - The General Fireproofing Co. Ad with photograph of the Ward Willits Residence (1901). Herringbone Rigid Metal Lath, General Fireproofing Co. Original List Price 35 cents. 7 x 10. Pp 72 0128.01.0405 1915
Poetry, A Magazine of Verse (Published monthly by Seymour, Daughaday and Company, Fine Arts Building, Chicago) Edited by Harriet Monroe In 1912 Harriet Monroe approached Seymour about designing and publishing a new literary journal, Poetry Magazine. (Caxtonian, May, 2011, P. 4) The first issue was published in October. Copyright Harriet Monroe. Harriet Monroe, Editor. The Ralph Fletcher Seymour Company, Printers, Chicago. It is not indicated, but the cover was most likely designed by Seymour. Page 38 included an ad for Seymour, including the three books translated by Mamah Bouton Borthwick... Continue...
Pp 52 0128.14.0114 1918 1918 American Photography - June 1918 (Published monthly by American Photography Publishing Co., Boston, Mass.) Lane, Gilman "A Daylight Enlarger to be used in any Lighted Room. Not every amateur has yet solved the problem of successful enlarging. Perhaps he has a small darkroom far removed from a good outside light, and cannot expend the amount of money necessary to buy an artificial illuminating apparatus – including condenser..." Gilman Lane photographed many of Frank Lloyd Wright’s building in the Midwest. Includes four illustrations and one photograph which may be a self portrait. 6.5 x 9.5. (Digital version.) Pp 364-365 0139.05.1011 1919 1919
Wendingen II - No. 6, June 1919 (Published by de Hooge Brug, Amsterdam. Approximately 1,000 copies printed of which 50 were the deluxe edition. All copies published in Dutch. ) Cover design: Lithograph by Johan Luger. Wendingen, was published from 1918 through 1931, by ‘‘Architectura et amicitia’’, an Amsterdam-based society, and developed into the major representative of the Amsterdam School Wils, Jan "The New Time. Some thoughts on the Work of Frank Lloyd Wright. In de laatste jaren pas is het den kunstenaars bewust geworden, dat een waarlijk moderne kunst niet steunt op vormen, die in 't wilde weg gegrepen zijn, maar haar oorsprong slechts vindt en een vasten ondergrond heeft in datgene, wat men den tijdgeest noemt. Het is het bewustzijn, dat moest komen na de vele decepties, die elke willekeurige,persoonlijke uiting weer meebracht, persoonlijk... Continue... (Sweeney 142) Pp 14-15 0142.00.1114 1920 1920
Banff Crag & Canyon - July 10, 1920 (Published weekly by the Banff Crag & Canyon, Banff, Alberta) Anonymous "The grounds in front of the recreation building were under water last week, and it was possible for a man, if so inclined, to wade out to the building, sit on the steps and fish... They are neither ornamental nor useful except as a standing monument to the incapacity of Parks Commissioner Harkin." (Photocopy courtesy of the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Alberta.) 2.5 x 1.75. For more information on the Banff National Park Pavilion see our Wright Study. - 0142.07.0910 1921 1921
Wendingen - IV No. 11 1921 (Published by de Hooge Brug, Amsterdam. English version. 200 standard edition soft cover copies were published and 75 deluxe copies with heavier paper and hard covers were produced. This is the soft cover edition.) Cover design: Lithograph after a drawing by E.L. Lissitzky (1890-1941). This was among his first commissions upon leaving Russia. Wendingen, was published from 1918 through 1931, by ‘‘Architectura et amicitia’’, an Amsterdam-based... Berlage, H. P. “Frank Lloyd Wright.” This issue was devoted to Wright. It includes 22 photographs and renderings of Wright's work, including Midway Gardens, Taliesin, the Imperial Hotel, and the Barnsdale Theatre. A further seven issues of Wendingen would be devoted to Wright in 1925-1926. 21 of the 22 images were later repeated in the seven issues and also the published book “The Life-Work of the American Architect Frank Lloyd Wright” 1925. Page 2 (published... Continue... (Sweeney 143) Pp 2-18 0143.00.0207 1923 1923
Architectural Record - April 1923 (Published monthly by F. W. Dodge Corp., New York) Sullivan, Louis H. "Concerning The Imperial Hotel - Tokyo, Japan. ...This great work is the masterpiece of Frank Lloyd Wright, a great free spirit, whose fame as a master of ideas is an accomplished world-wide fact. Through prior visits he had discerned, and added to the wealth of his own rich nature, the spirit, as evidenced in forms, of the ideals of Old Japan, which still persist, in slumber, among its living people, needing but the awakening touch... In this regard the Imperial Hotel... Continue... (Sweeney 154) Pp 332-352 0154.00.0615 1923
The Western Architect (Published monthly by The Western Architect, Chicago) Wright, Frank Lloyd “In the Cause of Architecture, in the wake of the Quake concerning the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo." Part one of two parts, part two in February 1924, S#162. Includes two photographs. Original cover price $0.50. 9 x 12. (Sweeney 155) Pp129-132 0155.00.0906 1923
The American Architect and The Architectural Review - June 20, 1923 (Published by The Architectural and Building Press, Inc.)
Swartout, Egerton "Review of Recent Architectural Magazines." Includes review of Wright and two photos of Imperial Hotel. Original List Price 50 cents. 9 x 12. Pp 574-578 0156.01.0205 1924 1924
Architectural Record - February 1924 (Published monthly by F. W. Dodge Corp., New York) Floto, Julius "Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, Japan." Begins with: "Extracts from a report to Frank Lloyd Wright by Enod San, Assistant to Mr. Wright during construction of the building. Dated September 8, 1923... Frank Lloyd Wright’s Imperial Hotel stands practically uninjured after resisting the most severe seismic shocks, both in intensity and duration, the civilized world has ever recorded. Surrounded by ruins the Imperial stands, a symbol of progress and a lasting tribute... Continue... (Sweeney 159) Pp 118-123 0159.00.0615 1924
Architectural Record - February 1924 (Published monthly by F. W. Dodge Corp., New York) Sullivan, Louis H. "Reflections on the Tokyo Disaster. ...The emergence, unharmed, of the Imperial Hotel, from the heartrending horrors of the Tokyo disaster, takes on, at once, momentous importance in the world of modern thought, as a triumph of the living and the real over the credulous, the fantastic, and the insane... The architect of the Imperial Hotel, whose name by the way is Frank Lloyd Wright, a fact I should in all honor have mentioned earlier, had I not been so... Continue... (Sweeney 161) Pp 113-117 0161.00.0615 1924
Architectural Record - June 1924 (Published monthly by F. W. Dodge Corp., New York) Rebori, A. N. (Side Note) "Louis H Sullivan (1856-1924). Louis H Sullivan passed away quietly on Monday, April 14, 1924, after a week’s illness, of hear failure. As far as the material world is concerned, he ceased to exist some fifteen years ago. The last years of his life were spent in writing and in executing small commissions for appreciative clients... These few tokens of appreciation, coming as they do from unbiased architectural opinion, show the high place in which the works of... Continue... Pp 586-587 0161.01.0615 1925 1925
Wendingen VII No. 4 1925. Second issue of seven part series.
Wright, Frank Lloyd All seven issue were devoted to Wright. All seven issues were combined into a bound volume Sweeney 165, 1925. Reprinted by Horizon in 1965. Pages were double folded just like bound issues. This issue originally belonged to Alfonso Iannelli, Sculptor of many of Wright’s projects including the Sprites for Midway Gardens. Authenticated by Kelmscott Gallery. Pp 25-52 0168.02.0504 1925
Wendingen VII No. 5 1925. Third issue of seven part series. Wright, Frank Lloyd All seven issue were devoted to Wright. All seven issues were combined into a bound volume Sweeney 165, 1925. Reprinted by Horizon in 1965. Pages were double folded just like bound issues. This issue originally belonged to Alfonso Iannelli, Sculptor of many of Wright’s projects including the Sprites for Midway Gardens. Authenticated by Kelmscott Gallery. Pp 53-76 0168.03.0504 1927 1927
Architectural Record - December 1927 (Published Monthly by F.W. Dodge Corp., New York) 1) Wright, Frank Lloyd 2) Rebori, A. N. 1) “La Miniatura” - Residence of Mrs. George Madison Millard, Pasadena, Calif. The First Textile-Block Slab House Constructed by Frank Lloyd Wright.” 2) “Frank Lloyd Wright’s Textile-Block Slab Construction” “The work of Frank Lloyd Wright presented in a volume recently published in Holland bears conclusive proof that at least one American architect has created a vital Modern architecture from new materials, new methods and new construction, conforming to... Continue... 1) Frontispiece (P 448) 2) Pp 449-456 0194.00.0407 1927
Architectural Record - May 1927 Wright, Frank Lloyd In Cause of Arch: I - The Architect and the Machine (Sweeney 195) Pp 394 - 396 0195.00.0301 1927
Architectural Record - June 1927 Frank Lloyd Wright In Cause of Arch: II - Standardization, The Soul of the Machine (Sweeney 196) Pp 478 - 480 0196.00.0301 1927
Architectural Record - August 1927 (Published Monthly by F.W. Dodge Corporation, New York) Wright, Frank Lloyd “In Cause of Architecture: Part III, Steel.” Published as a bound volume in 1975 (S1971). Original cover price 35 cents. 7.5 x 10.5. Pp 163-166 0197.00.0707 1927
Architectural Record - October 1927 Wright, Frank Lloyd In Cause of Arch: IV - Fabrication and Imagination. V - The New World. (Sweeney 198) Pp 318-324 0198.00.1002 1927
Arts & Decoration - November 1927 (Published Monthly by Arts & Decoration Publishing Co. Inc., New York, Paris, London) Vreeland, Francis William "A New Art Centre For The Pacific Coast. The California Art Club and the City of Los Angeles Share in the Magnificent Gift of a Beautiful House Surrounded by Picturesque Gardens and Olive Groves. The city of Los Angeles, in conjunction with the California Art Club, has received recently what may be considered its first large gift in the name of art - the presentation of a city recreation centre comprising a large house and eight surrounding acres of beautiful gardens... Continue... Pp 64-65 0199.01.0711 1928 1928
Creative Art - November 1928 (Published monthly by Albert & Charles Boni, Inc., New York) Haskell, Douglas "Organic Architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright. The single passion of Frank Lloyd Wright has been for an architecture universally valid because organic. As the scientist goes far beneath Nature’s appearances for her laws, so he has worked far below the orders and alphabets of finished building for the rule so broad as to permit no exceptions, the necessary base for sentient life..." Includes seven photographs of Ennis House (2), Hollyhock House (3), Coonley Residence and Robie... Continue... (Sweeney 203) Pp li-lvii 0203.00.0113 1928
Architectural Record - August 1928 (Two Copies) Wright, Frank Lloyd Fiske Kimball’s New Book: A Review (Sweeney 205) Pp 172 - 3 0205.00.0101 0205.00.0402 1928
Architectural Record - January 1928 (Published Monthly by F.W. Dodge Corporation, New York) Wright, Frank Lloyd “In Cause of Architecture: 1. The Logic of the Plan.” Includes six illustrations. Published as a bound volume in 1975 (S1971). Original cover price 35 cents. 9 x 11.75. Pp 49-57 0206.00.0707 1928
Architectural Record - April 1928 (Published Monthly by F.W. Dodge Corporation, New York) Wright, Frank Lloyd "In Cause of Architecture: III. The Meaning of Materials - Stone." Stone, wood, pottery, glass, pigments and aggregates, metals, gems - cast in the industrious maw of mill, kiln and machine to be worked to the architect’s will by human-skill-in-labor. All this to his hand, as the pencil in it makes the marks that disposes of it as he dreams and wills. If he wills well - in use and beauty sympathetic to the creation of which he is creature. If he wills ill, in ugliness and... Continue... (Sweeney 208) Pp 350-356 0208.00.0315 1928
Architectural Record - May 1928 (Published monthly by F. W. Dodge Corp, New York) Wright, Frank Lloyd "In Cause of Architecture: IV. The Meaning of Materials - Wood. From the fantastic totem of the Alaskan - erected for its own sake as a great sculptured pole, seen in its primitive colors far above the snows - to the resilient bow of the American Indian, and from the enormous solid polished tree-trunks upholding the famous great temple-roofs of Japan to the delicate spreading veneers of rare, exotic woods on the surfaces of continental furniture... Continue... (Sweeney 209) Pp 481-488 0209.00.0716 1928
Architectural Record - July 1928 (Published monthly by F. W. Dodge Corp, New York) (Two Copies) Wright, Frank Lloyd "In Cause of Architecture: VI. The Meaning of Materials - Glass. Perhaps the greatest difference eventually between ancient and modern buildings will be due to our modern machine-made glass. Glass, in any wide utilitarian sense, is new. Once a precious substance limited in quantity and size, glass and its making have grown so that a perfect clarity of any thickness, quality or dimension is so chap and desirable that our modern world is drifting toward structures... Continue... (Sweeney 211) Pp 11-16 0211.00.0402 0211.00.0216 1928
Architectural Record - August 1928 (Two Copies) Wright, Frank Lloyd In The Cause of Architecture: VII. The Meaning of Materials - Concrete (Sweeney 212) PP 98-104 0212.00.0101 0212.00.0402 1928
Architectural Record - October 1928 (Published monthly by Dodge Corporation, New York) Wright, Frank Lloyd "In Cause of Architecture: VIII Sheet Metal and a Modern Instance. The machine is at its best when rolling, cutting, stamping or folding whatever may be fed into it. Mechanical movements are narrowly limited unless built up like the timer of a Corliss engine or like a linotype. The movements easiest of all are rotary, next, the press or hammer, and the lift and slide works together with either or both. In these we have pretty much the powers of the "Brute." But infinite are the... Continue... (Sweeney 213) Pp 334-342 0213.00.0402 0213.00.0216 1928
Architectural Record - December 1928 (Bound Volume) Frank Lloyd Wright In The Cause of Architecture: IX. The Terms (Sweeney 214) Pp 507-514 0214.00.0402 1929 1929
Architectural Record - May 1929 Wright, Frank Lloyd; Fiske, Kimball Includes a letter written by Wright to Kimball about Kimball’s book "American Architecture" and his letter to Wright in response (Pg 434). (Sweeney 216) Pp 431-4 0216.00.0502 1929
Architectural Record - May 1929 Hitchcock, Henry-Russell, Jr. Foreign Periodicals. Reviewed by Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Jr. Architectural Magazines published in Holland. Hitchcock reviews Wendingen and mentions the Wright series that was later published in book form. Pp 520 0216.01.0502 1929
Architectural Record - July 1929 (Published monthly by F. W. Dodge Corp, New York) Anonymous "The Arizona-Biltmore Hotel, Phoenix, Arizona. Albert Chase McArthur, Architect... Throughout the effort of the architect has been to design in the spirit of Frank Lloyd Wright’s concepts of harmonizing the building with the terrain, of bringing out the inherent natural qualities of the materials used in the construction... On the architect’s invitation, Mr. Wright came to Arizona and all the technical details for the use of the concrete block type of construction were worked... Continue... (Sweeney 217) Pp 19-56 0217.00.0112 1929
Time - October 7, 1929 Art Section Genius, Inc. (Notice of Frank Lloyd Wright’s incorporation (Sweeney 219) Pp 45-6 0219.00.0601 1929
Architectural Record - July 1929 (Published monthly by F. W. Dodge Corp, New York) Wright, Frank Lloyd "Surface and Mass, - Again! A true announcement of the law of creation, if a man were found worthy to declare it, would carry Art up into the Kingdom of Nature and destroy its separate and contrasted existence. A wise and noble countryman of mine said that. I listened before entering an Architect’s office and have faithfully worked to be worthy to make that declaration here where Architecture was the game of a rude and youthful people and not the labor of a... Continue... (Sweeney 225) Pp 92-94 0225.00.0112 1929
Liberty - March 23, 1929 Wright, Frank Lloyd "Taliesin: The Chronicle of a House with a Heart." (Sweeney 226) Pp Cover 8 21-2 24 26-9 0226.00.0904 1929
The Larkin Idea - August 1929 (A Monthly Magazine for Larkin Secretaries, Published by the Larkin Co. Inc., Buffalo, NY) Anonymous Front and back cover printed in four-color. This issue continues to use the Larkin Building mast-head (p3) which includes the Larkin Administration Building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. 5.3 x 8.3 Pp 24 0228.25.0914
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