[Wright, Frank Lloyd. (1867-1959)]
The Taliesin Fellowship, 1933 - SIGNED
Spring Green, Wisc.?: 1933 - December. The second publication of the Taliesin Fellowship, dated December, 1933 and including a perspective drawing and plan of the proposed Taliesin Fellowship building and photographs of Taliesin and some fellowship members. Lists of Friends of the Fellowship and Fellows and an application for fellowship are provided. The sheets are printed in red and black on one side only, with one exception, and folded variously to form loose, unbound gatherings of two to four pages each. Small oblong 4to (21.6 cm), 10 pp., 3 illustrations, original wrappers printed in red. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED ON THE FRONT WRAPPER TO A YOUNG ARCHITECTURE STUDENT. Provenance: by descent through the family of the original recipient. Toned, edges lightly chipped, a few small stains to wrappers and pages, overall very good. Sweeney 2036. Rare. Worldcat records 25 copies and we have traced only 2 on the market in over 30 years of records, none of which were signed. Sold together with an original doubleweight silver gelatin photograph of Wright (6 x 8 inches).Taliesin, sometimes known as Taliesin East or Taliesin Spring Green after 1937, was the home and estate of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, developed on land that originally belonged to Wright's maternal family. In 1932, the Wrights established the private Taliesin Fellowship, where fifty to sixty apprentices could come to Taliesin to study under the architect. Students helped him develop the estate at a time when Wright received few commissions for his work. Once he began Taliesin West, a winter home in Scottsdale, Arizona, in 1937, Wright and the fellowship "migrated" between the two homes each year. Wright did not consider the fellowship a formal school, instead viewing it as a benevolent educational institution. (14971)
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