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TIME
 
 
 
 
 
February 21, 1938
 
December 2, 1940
 
May 4, 1942
 
 
September 24, 1945

 

October 29, 1945

 

February 9, 1948

 

 
August 15, 1949
 
August 2, 1954
 
June 11, 1956
 
 
July 2, 1956
 
March 2, 1959
 
April 2, 1959
 
November 2, 1959
 
August 18, 1961
 
December 18, 1964
 
October 5, 1983
 
July 10, 1989
 
Covering History, Time Magazine Covers 1923-1997 (1998)

 

 
YEAR TITLE AUTHOR DESCRIPTION PAGES ST#
1929 Time - October 7, 1929 Art Section Genius, Inc. (Notice of Frank Lloyd Wright’s incorporation)  (Sweeney 219) Pp 45-6 0219.00.0601
1937 Time, October 25, 1937 People Section Text & Photo  (Sweeney 421) P 68 0421.00.1200
1938Time1-38 2.jpg (6230 bytes) Time - January 17, 1938 (Published by Time Inc.) 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. Valentino Sara also photographed Wright for cover of "A Testament". Original List Price 15 cents. 8.5 x 11.5. Three Copies. (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 from HF Johnson [Wax]) Pp 2, 4-5 0454.01.0600
1938 Time - February 21, 1938 Anonymous Comments on exhibit of photographs of Fallingwater at Museum of Modern Art - See Book #0430  (Sweeney 432) Pp 53 0432.00.0901
1940 Time - December 2, 1940 Anonymous Religion: Something new in churches. Wright design for Community Church, Kansas City.  Article and illustration. (Sweeney 525) Pp 38 40 0525.00.0702
1942 Time - May 4, 1942 Anonymous Art: Usonian Evolution.  Biographic information as well as a review of "In the Nature of Materials".    (Sweeney 593) Pp 67 0593.00.1104
1945 Time - September 24, 1945 (Published weekly by Time, Inc., Chicago, IL) Anonymous 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. 8.25 x 10.75. (Sweeney 633) Pg 46 0633.00.1209
1945 Time - October 29, 1945 (Published weekly by Time, Inc., Chicago, IL) Wright, Frank Lloyd
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. 8.25 x 10.75.

 

 

 

 

 

Pp 6, 8 0633.01.1209
1948 Time - February 9, 1948 Photos by Karsh, Guerrero & Stoller Art: Ahead of His Time.  Comments on the January 1948 issue of Architectural Forum (Sweeney 745) devoted to Wright.  Includes 7 photos.  (Sweeney 722) Pp 68-9 0722.00.0703
1949 Time - August 15, 1949 Anonymous Art: New Shells. Article about Richard Neutra includes write-up, quote and photo of Wright. Pp 58-65 0798.02.0802
1949 Time - August 15, 1949 Anonymous Modern Houses... Across the USA. Includes photo of Fallingwater. Pp 60-1 0798.03.0802
1954 Time - August 2, 1954 (Published weekly by Time, Inc., Chicago) Anonymous 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.  8.25 x 11.  (Sweeney 1045) Pp 61 1045.00.0307
1956 Time - June 11, 1956 Anonymous A review of author Jacques Barzun’s work. Includes a mention and portrait of Wright. Pp Cover 57-62 1130.00.1202
1956 Time - July 2, 1956 Anonymous The 20th Century Form Givers. Portrait and paragraph about Wright.   (Sweeney 1131) Pp 51 1131.00.0802
1956 Time - July 2, 1956 Anonymous Art: The Maturing Modern. Article about Saarinen. Includes comments on Wright, and photo of the Price Tower. Pp 51, 50-7 1131.01.0802
1959 Time - March 2, 1959 Anonymous New World Synagogues (Beth Sholom Synagogue) Pp 44-5 1377.01.1101
1959 Time - April 2, 1959 Anonymous Native Genius. (Wright’s Obituary)  (Sweeney 1341) Pp 80 83 1341.00.0302
1959 Time - November 2, 1959 Anonymous Last Monument. Wright’s Guggenheim Museum: Mighty Tower & Babel of Discord  (Sweeney 1329) Pp 67 1329.00.0302
1961 Time - August 18, 1961  (Published weekly by Time, Inc., Chicago) Anonymous “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.  8.3 x 11. (Sweeney 1481) Pg 50 1481.00.0607
1964 Time - December 18, 1964 Anonymous Modern Living Section: The City. Article includes text and photos on the Grady Gammage Auditorium Pp 46-56 1596.02.0202
1983 Time - October 5, 1983 Anonymous 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. Pp 13-14 1983.09.0203
1983 Time - October 5, 1983 Anonymous Art: Usonian Architecture. Condensed reprint of a 1938 article . (Sweeney 454) Pp 124 1983.10.0203
1989 Time - July 10, 1989 (Published weekly by The Time Inc. Magazine Company, New York) Andersen, Kurt “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. 8 x 11. Pp 3 64 1989.38.0706
1998 Covering History, Time Magazine Covers 1923-1997 (Published and updated in 1973, 1983, 1991, 1998 by Time Inc.) Isaacson, Walter "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. 9.75 x 12.5. (First Edition) Pp 88 1998.61.0298
           

 

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