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1905-1995
This collection is arranged in eight series: I. Speeches and Interviews. II. Biographical Publications and Correspondence. III. Associations, Tours and Restoration Activities. IV. Exhibitions and Auctions. V. Ephemera. VI. Newspaper Clippings. VII. Photographs. VIII. Publications (Journal and Magazine Clippings).
This collection was donated in various gifts (accession number 1000.095)
Magazine and newspaper articles are mainly from the Ware Library vertical files
This collection is available for use by appointment in the Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. For further information, please email avery-drawings@library.columbia.edu.
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Source of acquisition--Various gifts. Accession number--1000.095.
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) was an American Architect internationally recognized for his distinctive Prairie Style houses, innovative building design, Taliesin school and fellowships, and philosophy of "organic architecture.".
Processed; Emilie Anderson 2011.
The Frank Lloyd Wright Miscellanea is composed of transcripts of speeches, interviews, magazine and newspaper clippings by and about the world-famous architect. The collection also includes printed materials related to various Frank Loyd Wright-themed exhibitions, associations, building and house tours, restoration efforts and ephemera gleaned from disparate sources. The collection contains minimal personal correspondence from Frank Lloyd Wright (the collection contains only two examples) but does include correspondence about Frank Lloyd Wright from Lloyd Wright (son), Edgar Kaufmann, and Edgar Tafel.
Frank Lloyd Wright Miscellanea, circa 1905-1995 (bulk 1940s-1960s), Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.
consists of transcripts of talks and speeches that Frank Lloyd Wright delivered on various occasions and locations including Princeton University (1947), University of Denver (1948), and Taliesin (1953). Only one page survives of an unidentified speech given at Taliesin in 1932. Transcripts from a two-part interview with Mike Wallace in 1957 and a transcript of an interview with Jink Falkenberg in 1957 are included.
6 p. : Typewritten copy.
Transcribed by Rodney Sylvan. Includes handwritten notes and typed first draft (by Sylvan). Edited by Joseph Shelley.
Transcript of NBC radio program narrated by Morgan Beatty; includes interview segments of FLW.
Transcript of a two-part radio interview.
Transcript of an interview with Jinx Falkenburg.
Transcript and one copy of a Sunday morning talk.
Text related to the Guggenheim Museum. Typed copy marked "From FLLW office [unknown] to EK Jr."
Page 6 of an unidentified talk or speech by FLW at Taliesin.
includes a photocopy of a letter from Frank Lloyd Wright to his daughter, Catherine and her husband Kenneth written in 1921 from the Imperial Hotel. This series contains correspondence from Lloyd Wright (FLW'son) to Linn Cowles in which Lloyd recounts a trip to Europe with his father and other reminiscences. This series also contains various biographies (drafts and completed works) and research notes by Harvey Einbinder, Thomas S. Hines, Jr., Thomas A. Heinz, and Robert C. Twomby. Recollections of days at Taliesin by Noverre Musson and a brief history of the Usonia Homes project by Priscilla J. Henken are included. Also includes correspondence relating to the Guggenheim Museum commission and various notes from former Taliesin Fellow, Edgar Tafel.
FLW family group chart compiled in 1969 by Mrs. David Wright. Multigenerational pedigree chart (FLW's parents, etc.) is attached. Includes photocopies of passports issued to Frank Lloyd Wright and Catherine L. Wright in 1905 and correspondence related to FLW's mother's family and her death date.
Photocopy of a letter written from the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo on February 7, 1921.
Correspondence from Lloyd Wright (FLW's son) to Linn Cowles; includes reminiscences of his father in a letter dated February 3, 1966; with a letter, in German, to Linn Cowles dated December 1965 (Wasmuth publication?) Also includes handmade Christmas cards and Lloyd Wright memorial service program from 1978.
Photocopy of an 11 page typewritten prospectus for the book Einbinder would later write.
Final published copy and photocopy; with a letter from the author.
Includes copies of his research materials (photocopies of clippings illustrating FLW designs for Luxfer Prism, Co.)
Published article appeared in the Spring 1968 issue of Wisconsin Magazine of History; with a letter from the author. Letter indicates that the article forms the substance of Twomby's dissertation.
Copy of a published article from the Fall 1992 issue of Wisconsin Academy Review by Mary Jane Hamilton. Biography of Maginel Wright Barney (1877-1966), FLW's sister.
Reprinted from The Psychoanalytic Review; with an inscription to Edgar Kaufman from Gordon Globus, MD.
Typewritten copy of recollection / reminiscence by Priscilla J. Henken.
Typewritten copy with notes by Noverre Musson, an architect and former Taliesin fellow.
With response from FLW dated June 10th 1943. Hilla Rebay was the first director and curator of Guggenheim's Museum of Non-Objective Painting. She asks Wright to come to New York to discuss "a building for our collection"
Published by Winthrop Laboratories, NY "as a service to the Medical Profession" (?)
Includes copy of letter from Charles H. McArthur to Interiors magazine about incorrect attribution of FLW to design of the Arizona Biltmore Hotel, copy of letter from S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. regarding building drawing submission dates. (Gifts of Mr. Edgar Kaufmann) Note: this is NOT correspondence to or from FLW.
Edgar Tafel was a Taliesin apprentice. Includes photocopy of a letter from Frank Lloyd Wright to Robert K. Mosher regarding the reason behind the location of Fallingwater dated 1936 with a note from Tafel to Kaufmann; a copy of the eulogy of George N. Cohen written by Edgar Tafel.
documents the various groups and organizations that have formed to honor and preserve Frank Lloyd Wright's work through house tours and preservation projects. Includes paint samples and contact sheets related to the Unity Temple Restoration Foundation and statistics related to visitors and venues generated by tours of Fallingwater.
Includes school of architecture information sheet, Foundation brochure, "Day At Taliesin" invitation, Monona Basin Project brochure.
Includes 3 copies of FLW Home and Studio brochure, 1 newsletter published by the FLW Association.
Includes exhibition announcements, flyers, calendars from 1974 and 1975, correspondence and cards to Avery librarians.
Includes promotional materials and a 1980 board membership list, brochures, and restoration building plans.
Includes contact sheets of images of restoration work in progress and finished work, with letter to Edgar Kaufman from John Michiels, Architectural Consultant for the restoration.
Includes Foundation 1985 Annual Report, tour and membership brochures, cards, post-cards, publications on the history of the house that FLW built for Susan Lawrence Dana.
Contains two publications written by Loren Pope on the subject of the Pope-Leighey House, printed by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Washington, DC.
Contains tour brochures.
Coverage in the picture section of the Minneapolis Tribune, dated August 20, 1972.
Includes one copy of "Water, Land and Life" which features a story about Fallingwater tours and correspondence between the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy and William Shopsin regarding visitors and monies generated by tours of Fallingwater.
contains exhibition catalogs, announcements, guest lists and sellers catalogs for various Frank Lloyd Wright themed exhibitions and auctions. Includes printed materials related to the Frank Lloyd Wright room exhibition at the V & A Museum in London.
Includes catalog for travelling exhibition to Florence, Italy.
Contains exhibition catalog and one copy of article from Le Figaro (in French).
Contains catalog for exhibition in honor of FLW awarded the Gold Medal for Architecture on May 27, 1953.
Contains news clippings, exhibition brochure, correspondence to Edgar Kaufman and interior photograph of an exhibit of a FLW-designed room reconstructed at the V&A Museum in London.
Includes list of FLW archival materials offered for sale through California Book Auction Galleries, 1981.
consists of a brochure with map, promotional pennant flag and room rate and meal tariff card from the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, Japan. Also includes a whimsical cut-and-fold model of the Robie House, issued by Monte Enterprises, and Frank Lloyd Wright postage stamps issued in 1966 as part of the "Prominent Americans" series.
Brochure, city map, sticker, and room and meal tariff menu.
Felt pennant flag.
Issued by Monte Enterprises (makers of cut and fold models of historical buildings and national monuments); with original mailing envelope with order sheet.
U.S. Postage stamps featuring Frank Lloyd Wright and image of the Guggenheim Museum. Part of the "Prominent Americans Series" issued in 1966.
includes numerous clippings from local and national newspapers grouped by theme or subject. Includes Frank Lloyd Wright obituaries, biographical portraits, articles about FLW's family (children, grandchildren), book reviews, critiques and criticisms. Also includes documentation of the Guggenheim Museum building and the public response to it.
Includes newspaper clippings related to FLW's birth date, early biography, and various obituaries.
Includes an obituary of FLW's sister Maginel Wright Barney.
Includes newspaper clippings related to the design plans for the Guggenheim Musem; criticism and remarks by Robert Moses on the occasion of the Guggenheim dedication.
Includes short articles on The Imperial Hotel, Larkin Building, Robie House demolition, and other buildings and projects.
Contains articles related to the Monona Terrace project from the
contains black and white photographs of the entrance to the Johnson Wax Company Building in Racine, Wisconsin, the Barnsdall House in Los Angeles, California and the John Pew House in Madison, Wisconsin. Also included is a group photograph taken in the interior of the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, Japan in 1929 on the occasion of the World Engineering Congress.
Small (2 1/4" x 3 1/2"), black and white photo.
Black and white photograph (4 7/8" x 6 7/8"), front detail.
Negative (or contact print?) marked
Photograph taken at the Imperial Hotel on the occasion of the World Engineering Congress.
primarily consists of magazine and journal articles from the 1930s through the 1960s originally housed in the Ware Library vertical files. Some highlights include the complete, bound January 1938 and January 1951 issues of
"Frank Lloyd Wright In Print: 1959 - 1970" bibliography prepared by James Muggenburg; 2 page typewritten bibliography of publications written by FLW; list of FLW building designs 1893-1959 compiled by John Lloyd Wright.
Contains the complete, bound January 1938 issue of
Contains complete, bound copies of
Includes 6 fold-out sketches from the January 1948 issue of
Includes FLW's essay "The American Quality" from the October 1941 issue of
Includes the complete, bound copy of the Summer 1954 issue
Includes the complete January 1951 issue of
Contains 2 copies of the November 1955 FLW issue of
Contains "Sixty Years of Living Architecture" - 1952 (in German); and complete, bound issue of the February 1956 issue of
Contains the complete, bound June 1959 issue of
Includes
Contains the complete, bound May 1962 publication "Let's See" which features a pictorial essay about Taliesin three years after FLW's death.