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1930
1930 Arts & Decoration - May 1930 (Published monthly by Arts & Decoration Publishing Co., Inc., New York, Paris, London) Boyd, John Taylor Jr. “A Prophet of the New Architecture. Mr. Frank Lloyd Wright, as One of the First Builders in the Modern Spirit, Makes us Realize that the New Architecture Was Being Established in This Country Thirty Years Ago - in an Interview with John Taylor Boyd, Jr.”  Includes nine photographs, seven of which are California block homes.  Original cover price $0.50. 9.75 x 13.5. Pp 56-59 100 102 116 0230.00.1206
1930 New York Times Magazine - June 29, 1930 (Published by the New York Times Company) Brock, H.I. A Pioneer in Architecture that is Called Modern. Frank Lloyd Wright, Who Proposes a Glass Tower for New York, Has Adapted His Art to the Machine Age. 11.5 x 16.5.  (Sweeney 231) Pp 11, 19 0231.00.0105
1930 Architectural Record - January 1930 (Published Monthly by F.W. Dodge Corp., New York) Anonymous “St. Mark’s Tower, St. Mark’s in the Bouwerie, New York City.”  Includes five color renderings. Original cover list price $0.75.  9x12.    (Sweeney 239) Pp 1-4 0239.00.0506
1930 Readers Digest - September 1930 Woollcott, Alexander Father of Modern Architecture (Condensed from The New Yorker - 7/19/30) Pp 388-90 0242.01.0801
1930 Kansas City Journal-Post - January 29, 1930 (Published by the Kansas City Journal-Post Publishers) Anonymous "People Will Live in Glass Houses". Project in New York. Photograph Copy-right Architectural Record. Original List Price 2 cents. 16.75 x 21.25. Pp 18 0249.05.0305
1930 Architectural Forum - May 1930 (Published monthly by Building Division , National Trade Journals, Inc. New York) Wright, Frank Lloyd “The Logic of Contemporary Architecture as an Expression of This Age.” Original cover price $1.00.  9 x 12.  (Sweeney 247) Pp 637-8 0247.00.0406
1931
1931 Saturday Review - July 11, 1931 Hamlin, Talbot Faulkner Book Review: Artist and Prophet. Review of Modern Architecture.  (Sweeney 257) Pg 957 0257.00.0303
1931

Creative Art - May 1931

Wright, Frank Lloyd The Tyranny of the Skyscraper. This is a reprint of Ch. 5 from Modern Architecture. The New York - Phoenix School of Design rebound this as a single article.  (Sweeney 296) Pp 324-32 0296.00.0402
1931

The Bookman - March 1931

Olgivanna (Mrs. Frank Lloyd Wright) "Last Days of Katherine Mansfield".  (Sweeney 299) Pp 6-13 0299.00.0804
1931 Standard Oil Bulletin - April 1931 (Published Monthly by The Standard Oil Company of California, San Francisco.) Anonymous “Arizona Beckons”. Includes seven photos of The Arizona Biltmore.  7 x 10. Pp 3-9 0300.01.0405
1931 The Scholastic - March 21, 1931 (Published every other week except during June, July and August by The Scholastic Publishing Company, Pittsburgh) Anonymous “Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect of the Future.”  “One of the first architects to realize the inevitability of the machine, but to see its vast possibilities was Frank Lloyd Wright.” Includes two photographs. Original cover price $0.10.  8.5 x 11.5. Pp 2 0300.02.0806
1931 The Pennsylvania Triangle - December 1931 (Published Monthly, from October to May, inclusive, by the Pennsylvania Triangle Board, University of Pennsylvania. Member of the Engineering College Magazines Associated) Syversen, G. “FLW Addresses Students.” Wright addresses students and faculty at the University of Pennsylvania on Saturday evening, November 14th, 1931. He stresses the  relationship of “Man and the Machine”. Original cover price $0.35. 9 x 11.5. Pp 23 0300.03.1106
1932
1932 New York Times Book Review - April 3, 1932 1) Anonymous  2) Longmans, Green and Co. 1) Review: An Autobiography. "The Autobiography of a Fighting Architect. Frank Lloyd Wright Tells the Story of His Battle for a Humane Functionalism in Building". (Sweeney 310)  2) Ad: For "An Autobiography". 1) Pp 4   2) Pp 17 0310.00.1005 0310.01.1005
1932 American Architect - May 1932 (Published monthly by International Publications, Inc., New York) Wright, Frank Lloyd “America Tomorrow.  We must choose between the Automobile and the vertical city.”  Includes two illustrations by Ernest Born and one photographic portrait of Wright.  (Note: Born also designed cover of magazine.)  Original cover price $0.50.  9 x 12.2. Pp 14-17 76 0348.00.0607
1932 Architecture - October 1932 (Published monthly by Charles Scribner’s Sons, Publishers, New York) Wright, Frank Lloyd Architectural Education: To the Students of the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, All Departments. Response to an article by Ely Jacques Kahn. (Reprinted from The Bulletin of the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, May 1932)  Original cover price $0.50.  9 x 12.  (Two Copies) (Sweeney 359) Pp 230 0359.00.0404 0359.00.1206
1932 Architecture - October 1932 (Published monthly by Charles Scribner’s Sons, Publishers, New York) Anonymous The Editor’s Diary: Saturday, August 20 -  “I hear that Frank Lloyd Wright is establishing an architectural school near his home, which will be called Taliesin Fellowship.  I wish I were young enough to attend it, for Wright is an inspiring teacher...”  Original cover price $0.50. 9 x 12.  (Two Copies) Pp 228 0359.01.0404 0359.01.1206
1932 Creative Art - April 1932 (Published by Albert & Charles Boni, Inc., New York) Wright, Frank Lloyd "Why the Great Earthquake Did Not Destroy the Imperial Hotel."  Excepts from the soon to be published "An Autobiography".  Includes portrait and two additional photographs of the Imperial Hotel.  Original List Price 75 cents. 8.25 x 11.5. (Sweeney 360) Pp 268-77 0360.00.0305
1932 The Art News - February 13, 1932 Flint, Ralph "Present Trends In Architecture In Fine Exhibit". Enlightening showing of work in the International Style now on view at the Museum of Modern Art. ...Special emphasis is given to the work of Frank Lloyd Wright as one of the great pioneers in American architecture... Pp 5-6 0361.01.1104
1933
1933 Architectural Forum - November 1933  (Published monthly by Rogers and Manson Corp. Concord, N.H.) Wright, Frank Lloyd “In the Show Window at Macy’s.” Wright comments on the work of eight contemporary architects.  Original cover price $1.00.  9 x 12.  (Sweeney 367) Pp 419-20 0367.00.0406
1933 Pictorial Review - March 1933 Frank Lloyd Wright: As told to Catherine Brody The City of To-morrow. A place of sunlight, gardens, and glass houses without skyscrapers.  (Sweeney 369) Pp 4, 61 0369.00.0303
1933 Cosmopolitan - February 1933 Wright, Frank Lloyd "The Future of the Home". One of 10 articles answering the question "Will it be All the Same 100 Years from Now?" Pp 130 0370.01.0704
1934
1934

Liberty - February 10, 1934 (Published by Liberty Publishing Corp.)

Wright, Frank Lloyd What is the Modern Idea?  A famous Architect Looks Into the Future.  Original List Price 5 cents. (Sweeney 376) Pg 49 0376.00.0105
1935
1935 New Masses - June 18, 1935 (Published weekly by the New Masses, Inc., New York) Alexander, Stephen Review of Broadacre City exhibit at the National Alliance of Arts and Industry Exposition, New York.  “Despite his badly confused notions of the nature of social forces in our society - (only a serious and completely sincere person could have written such a naive concoction of adolescent idealism and Wellsian it’s-all-done-with-push-buttons fiction) - Frank Lloyd Wright must be regarded as one of the important forces in progressive American architectural thought.  (New Masses, is a Communist propaganda rag.)  Wright’s response is published in the July 23, 1935 issue (S 395).  Original cover price 10c.  9.25 x 12. Pp 28 0377.00.0507
1935 Architectural Record - April 1935  (Published as an Offset by the National Alliance of Art and Industry and Architectural Record) Wright, Frank Lloyd “Broadacre City.  A New Community Plan.” Published as an offset for the Industrial Arts Exposition in Rockefeller Center, New York, April 15 to May 15, 1935 where Broadacre was shown publicly for the first time.  It consisted of architectural models and a full model 12 by 12 feet in size, of Broadacre City itself, complete with tiny forests, homes, schools, factories and farms.  See Broadacre photos.  9 x 12. Pp 243-54 0393.01.0107
1935 Saturday Review - December 14, 1935  (Published weekly by The Saturday Review Company, Inc. New York) Wright, Frank Lloyd “Form and Function.” Louis Sullivan: Prophet of Modern Architecture, by Hugh Morrison.  Reviewed by Frank Lloyd Wright.  Includes one photo.  (Original Cover Price $0.10)  8.5 x 11.5.  (Sweeney 394) Pg 6 0394.00.0506
1935 New Yorker - April 27, 1935 Mumford, Lewis The Sky Line: Mr. Wright’s City - Downtown Dignity (Broadacre) Pp 79-81 0397.01.701
1936
1936 The Rotarian - March 1936  (Published monthly by Rotary International, Chicago) Wright, Frank Lloyd “Skyscrapers Doomed? Yes! Says Frank Lloyd Wright.”   Includes six photographs, three of which are Wright buildings, one is a portrait.  Also published as an offset.  Original cover price 12c.  8.5 x 11.5. (Sweeney 403) Pp 10-11, 46-47 0403.00.0507
1936 Professional Art Quarterly - June 1936 (Published quarterly by Ben Duggar, Madison Wisconsin) Wright, Frank Lloyd “Taliesin: Our Cause. Part II.  Taliesin is not a back-to-tyhe-land movement.  No.  Nor is Taliesin interested in art for art’s sake.  Not at all.  But means to go forward, feet on the ground, seeing art as man’s practical appreciation of the gift of life by putting his sense of it into the things he makes to live with, and in the way he lives with them...”  Includes two photographs.  Part one is in the December 1935 S392 issue.  Original cover price 25c.  6 x 9. Pp 39-41 0404.00.0707
1936 Junior Red Cross Journal - February 1936  (Published monthly September to May by the American National Red Cross, Washington DC.) Speer, Margarett H. “The Machine Was Made for Man.”  Comments on the Industrial Arts Exposition held in the Summer of 1935 at the Rockefeller Center, New York. “Broadacres City was the focus of the exposition and no exhibition was more popular.”  Includes one photograph of the model homes of Broadacres City.  Original cover price $0.15.  See Broadacre photos.  9 x 12. Pp 136-137 0404.04.1206
1937
1937 Saturday Review - December 18, 1937 Hamlin, Talbot Review: Building for the Future. Review of Architecture and Modern Life. By Baker Brownell and Frank Lloyd Wright. Includes photo of the Willem House, Minneapolis.  (Sweeney 408) Pg 10 0408.00.0402
1937 Architectural Forum - August 1937  (Published Monthly by Time, Inc. New York) Anonymous Frank Lloyd Wright Tests a Column, Attends a Convention, Visits the Paris Fair.”  Racine: Wright tests the column for the Johnson Wax Company.  Moscow: One of the few Americans invited to the first All-Union Congress of Soviet Architects Wright sailed with the intent of “quashing the Palace of the Soviets”.  Paris: At the fair he found at least five good buildings.  Includes six photographs to the column test.  Original cover price $1.00.  9 x 12.  (Sweeney 414) Pp 10 0414.00.0507
1937 Coronet - December 1937 Levin, Meyer Master-Builder: Concerning Frank Lloyd Wright, Stormy Petrel of Architecture  (Sweeney 417) Pp 171-84 0417.00.0501
1937 Time - October 25, 1937 People Section Text & Photo  (Sweeney 421) P 68 0421.00.1200
1937 Scientific American - May 1937 Anonymous Unique Office Structure - Johnson Wax  (Sweeney 423) Pp 316-17 0423.00.0501
1937 Soviet Russia Today - October 37 Wright, Frank Lloyd Architecture and Life in the USSR. Also published in Arch Rec, Oct 1937 and An Autobiography (1943) Pp 549-56.  (Sweeney 425) Pp 14-19 0425.01.0102
1937 Readers Digest - September 1937 Wright, Frank Lloyd Building against Doomsday (Imperial Hotel)  (Sweeney 426) Pp 70-4 0426.00.0701
1937 Coronet - December 1937 Wright, Frank Lloyd The Man St. Peter Liked  (Sweeney 428 Pp 91 0428.00.0501
1937 Architectural Forum - December 1937  (Published Monthly by Time, Inc. New York) 1) Architect. Forum 

2) Anonymous

1) Full Page Announcement: “The Architectural Forum has the honor to announce the opening of its 1938 program with an issue devoted to the new work of Frank Lloyd Wright.”  A full page, bound announcement for the January 1938 issue that was devoted to Wright. One photograph by Hedrich-Blessing. 

2) “Frank Lloyd Wright, at 68, the year’s most inventive architect.”  Wright demonstrates Johnson Wax column to skeptical building authorities.  Includes one portrait of Wright by Hedrich. 

Three copies.  Original cover price $1.00.  9 x 12.

1) Pp 49

2) 4, 64

0429.03.0307

0429.04.0507

0429.05.0507

1938
1938

Architectural Forum - January 1938

Anonymous Book Review: Review of "Architecture and Modern Life" by Baker Brownell and Frank Lloyd Wright.  (Sweeney 406) Pp 18 0406.00.0200
1938 New York Times Book Review - January 2, 1938  (Published weekly by The New York Times Company, New York) Duffus, R. L. Book Review: “Frank Lloyd Wright’s Way To a Better World.”  “In ‘Architecture and Modern Life’ He and Baker Brownell Discuss Some Fundamental Ideas.”   Review of “Architecture and Modern Life”, Brownell, Wright 1937, original cover price $4.00.  Includes two photographs.  11.25 x 16.  (Sweeney 407) Pp 2 0407.00.0407
1938 Partisan Review - March 1938 (Published monthly by Partisan Review, New York) Schapiro, Meyer Book Review: “Architect’s Utopia.”  “Architecture and Modern Life”  By Baker Brownell and Frank Lloyd Wright.  Harper & Bros. $4.00.  Original cover price $0.25.  6 x 9.25.  (Sweeney 411) Pp 42-47 0411.00.0806
1938 Time - February 21, 1938 Anonymous Comments on exhibit of photographs of Fallingwater at Museum of Modern Art - See Sweeney  430 (Book)  (Sweeney 432) Pp 53 0432.00.0901
1938 Architectural Forum - November 1938 Wright, Frank Lloyd FLW, Architect: House for $5,000-6,000 Income  (Sweeney 438) Pp 331-5 0438.00.0400
1938 Architectural Record - July 1938 Ann; Hanna, Paul & Jean Frank Lloyd Wright Designs a Honeycomb House; Frank Lloyd Wright Builds Us a Home  (Sweeney 442) Pp 59-74 0442.00.0701
1938 Pencil Points - March 1938 (Published Monthly by Reinhold Publishing Corp. Stamford, Conn.) Hamlin, Talbot F. “F.L.W. - An Analysis.” Critics Series.  Includes 11 photos. Original price 50c. 9 x 12.  (Sweeney 445) Pp 137-144 0445.00.0405
1938 Architectural Forum - March 1938 (Published Monthly by Time, Inc. New York) Douglass, Donald M. Letters: "Frank Lloyd Wright (Cont.)."  Responses to the January 1938 issue (S457) which was devoted to Wright and designed by him.  "The Forum has become so invaluable and judicious that one must look at the January issue with pain rather than indignation."  Original cover price $1.00.  9 x 12. Pp 36 0446.01.0107
1938 Architectural Forum - June 1938 (Published Monthly by Time, Inc. New York) Elmslie, George G. George Grant Elmslie (1869 -1952), of Purcell and Elmslie, Architects, response to the letter by Douglass published in the March 1938 issue.  Elmslie worked closely with both Wright and Sullivan.  “Mr. Sullivan is dead but his spirit is very much alive and if he were alive he would be the first man to give you a wholesome send-off in his choice prose... in publishing your review of Wright’s work just as you did.”  Original cover price $1.00.  9 x 12. Pp 28 0446.02.0507
1938Life9-38 2.jpg (6769 bytes) Life Magazine - September 26, 1938 Wright, Frank Lloyd "Modern" house for Blackbourns of Minneapolis: If you earn $5,000-6,000 you can build one like it.  Related Book: The 1940 Book of Small Houses (1938)  (Sweeney 447) Pp 56, 60-61 0447.00.0900
1938Town&Country2-38 2.jpg (6765 bytes) Town & Country - February 1938 Patterson, Augusta Owen Three Modern Houses: No. 3. Owner, Edgar J Kaufmann, Pittsburgh; Architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.  (Sweeney 450) Pp 64-5 104 0450.00.1201
1938Time1-38 2.jpg (6230 bytes) Time - January 17, 1938 (Published by Time Inc.) (Three Copy) Cover photograph by Valentino Sara, Inside photographs by Hendrich. Cover: "His city would be everywhere and nowhere." Art: "Usonian Architecture." Includes biographical information and seven photographs. Original List Price 15 cents. 8.5 x 11.5. (Sweeney 454)
Cover,
Pp 29-32
0454.00.0600 0454.00.0205 0454.00.0305
1938 Time - January  31, 1938 Reader Response to #0454.01.0600 Letters (one letter from HF Johnson [Wax]) Pp 2, 4-5 0454.01.0600
1938 Architectural Forum - January 1938 Wright, Frank Lloyd Whole issue designed by and devoted to Wright  (Sweeney 457)  Cover, 1 - 102 0457.00.0200
1938 Architectural Forum - June 1938 (Published Monthly by Time, Inc. New York) Anonymous 1) “Wright and Center.” Wright selected to design the new $1,000,000 E. Stanley Jones educational foundation on the campus of Florida Southern College at Lakeland. Includes one image of Spivey and Wright by Sanborn.  (Sweeney 455)

2) Related: “Ranch House for Griffith, by Lloyd Wright, Architect.  Includes 15 photographs and illustrations.  Original cover price $1.00.  9 x 12.

1) Pp 12

2) Pp 471-478

0455.00.0507
1938

Architectural Forum - January 1938

Kastner, George Letters: "Space Within". Letter from Kastner concerning Wright’s accomplishments. Pp 22 0457.01.0200
1938 Architectural Forum - January 1938 Five Ads Ads: 2) Hope’s Windows. Full page ad. Photo of windows at Fallingwater. 3) Cabot’s "Quilt". Half page ad. Photo of Fallingwater. 4) Marquette Portland Cement. Half page ad. Photo testing Johnson Wax column. 5) Wright Rubber Tile. Quarter page ad. Photo John Wax Building model. 6) Reynolds Modern Foil Insulation. Quarter page ad. For the attic of The Hanna House. Pp 21 57 58 63 66 0457.02.0200
1938 Life Magazine - January 17, 1938  (Published weekly by Time Inc., New York) Architectural Forum Full page Ad: “The Architectural Forum has the honor to announce the publication of an entire issue written and designed by and devoted to the new and unpublished work of Frank Lloyd Wright.”  Ad for January issue.  $2 per copy.  Includes one photograph by Hendrich-Blessing.  Original cover price 10 cents.  10.5 x 14. P Inside Front Cover 0457.03.0307
1938 Des Moines Register - Idaho January 30, 1938 Anonymous House on a waterfall. Genius Goes to Town In a Country Lodge. Falling water. Includes four photos published in Architectual Forum - January 1938 Sweeney 457.   0460.01.0403
1939
1939 Focus (London) - Number 4. Summer 1939  (Published quarterly by Percy Lund Humphries, London) 1) Carter, E. J.; Gabo, Naum

2) Lund Humphries, London

3) Lund Humphries, London

1) “Frank Lloyd Wright. During the first fortnight of May, Frank Lloyd Wright was in London, and gave a series of four lectures at the R.I.B.A.  After his visit, an informal discussion was held at the A.A., and we print here two of the contributions to this discussion.  Includes two photographs: Taliesin West and Taliesin (Spring Green).

2) Half page Ad for “Frank Lloyd Wright, An Organic Architecture”. Probable price £6.

3) Order form for “Frank Lloyd Wright, An Organic Architecture”.

Original cover price £1/6 (One Pound 6). 6.1 x 8.75.  (Sweeney 470)

1) Pp 49-52

2) P xvii

3) P xix

0470.00.0307
1939 Architectural Forum - August 1939  (Published Monthly by Time, Inc. New York) Anonymous "Frank Lloyd Wright Takes England."  From editorial comment in The Architects Journal, May 11, 1939.  "By the time this Journal appears the third of four Sugrave Manor sermons - for sermons they are... will have been delivered by Frank Lloyd Wright at the R.I.B.A."  Original cover price $1.00.  9 x 12.  (Sweeney 480) Pp 22-23 0480.00.0307
1939life 5-39 2.jpg (5629 bytes) Life Magazine - May 8, 1939 Anonymous Johnson Wax Building  (Sweeney 489) Pp 15-17 0489.00.0700
1939 Life Magazine - March 20 1939 (Published weekly by Time Inc., Chicago, IL) Anonymous “Life Presents Landscapes and a Garden Calendar for Life’s Houses.”  Follow-up to Life’s September 26, 1938 Issue.  Includes eight illustrations, one of which is Wright’s “Modern for $5,000-$6,000 income”.  Original cover price 10c.  10.5 x 14. Pg 24-26 0489.01.1006
1939 Architectural Forum - August 1939 (Published Monthly by Time, Inc. New York) Anonymous "Usonia Comes to Ardmore, when Frank Lloyd Wright invents a four-family house with kitchens as control rooms, floors as radiators."  Suntop Homes, Ardmore Pennsylvania.  Includes three photographs and three illustrations.  Original cover price $1.00.  9 x 12. Pp 142-143, 36 0496.00.0307
1939 The Federal Architect - January 1939 Wright, Frank Lloyd Speech to the A.F.A.  (Sweeney 499)  Pp 20 - 23 0499.00.0400
1939coronet1-39 2.jpg (6557 bytes) Coronet - January 1939 Wright, Frank Lloyd The Man Who Paid Cash  (Sweeney 500) Two Copies Pp 175-6 0500.00.0601 0500.01.0601
1939 Arts & Decoration - May 1939   Related: Frank Lloyd Wright is listed as one of the members of the Board of Consulting Editors. Pp 2 0501.01.0702
1939 Pencil Points - December 1939  (Published Monthly by Reinhold Publishing Corp., Stamford, Conn.) Hamlin, Talbot F. “What Makes it American. Architecture in the Southwest and West.”  There is no mention of Wright in the 15 page article, but it does include a full page photograph and caption of the “Entrance of the Millard House, Pasadena”.  Original cover price $0.50.  8.75 x 11.75. Pp 762-723 0501.09.1206

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