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An Important Sumac Window by 
																	Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

( American, 1869 - 1959 )

An Important Sumac Window

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Materials:

iridized glass, opalescent glass and clear glass in brass-plated colonial zinc cames

Measurements:

61.61 in. (156.50 cm.) (height) by 20.39 in. (51.80 cm.) (width)

Description:

or LOG IN

Exhibited:

Chicago Architectural Club 20th Annual, including Exhibition of Frank Lloyd Wright , Art Institute of Chicago, March 29-April 26, 1907

Literature:

Frank Lloyd Wright, "In the Cause of Architecture,". Architectural Record , March 1908, p. 165 (for a period photograph of the present lot exhibited in the. Chicago Architectural Club 20th Annual, including Exhibition of Frank Lloyd Wright at the Art Institute of Chicago, 1907). Grant Carpenter Manson, . Frank Lloyd Wright to 1910: The First Golden Age , New York, 1958, p. 9 (for the design). David A. Hanks, . The Decorative Designs of Frank Lloyd Wright , New York, 1979, pl. 6 (for the Dana House windows). Kelmscott Gallery, . Frank Lloyd Wright , Chicago, 1981, n.p. (for the Dana House windows illustrated in a period advertisement by Linden Glass Company in . Architectural Record ). Thomas A. Heinz,. Frank Lloyd Wright , New York, 1982, pp. 32-33 (for the windows. in situ at the Dana House). . The Early Work of Frank Lloyd Wright: The "Ausgeführte Bauten" of 1911 , New York, 1982, pp. 37 (for the design. in situ ) and 101-103 (for the present lot exhibited in the Art Institute of Chicago exhibition, 1907) . Edgar Kaufmann, Jr., . Frank Lloyd Wright at the Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York, 1982, p. 4 (for the present lot exhibited in the Art Institute of Chicago exhibition, 1907). Tod M. Volpe and Beth Cathers, . Treasures of the American Arts and Crafts Movement 1890-1920 , New York, 1988, p. 155 (for the Dana House windows). William Allin Storrer, . The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion , Chicago, 1993, p. 68 (for the windows. in situ at the Dana House). Thomas A. Heinz, . Frank Lloyd Wright Glass Art , London, 1994, pp. 46-48 and 214 (for the windows. in situ at the Dana House). Donald Hoffmann, . Frank Lloyd Wright's Dana House , Mineola, 1996, pp. 82 (for the windows. in situ at the Dana House), 84 (for a design drawing and an illustration of the windows. in situ at the Dana House) and 105 (for the present lot exhibited in the Art Institute of Chicago exhibition, 1907). Maria Constantino, . The Life and Works of Frank Lloyd Wright , Philadelphia, 1998, p. 56 (for the windows. in situ at the Dana House). Julie L. Sloan,. Light Screens: The Complete Leaded-Glass Windows of Frank Lloyd Wright , New York, 2001, pp. 228-231 (for a discussion of the Dana House, the windows. in situ and for the above design drawing). Kathryn Smith,. Wright on Exhibit: Frank Lloyd Wright's Architectural Exhibitions , Princeton, 2017, pp. 19 and 26 (for the present lot exhibited in the Art Institute of Chicago exhibition, 1907

Provenance:

Nels E. Johnson, Vice President of Linden Glass Company, Chicago, by 1942. Marguerite Phillips, Chicago, circa mid 1940s. Thence by descent. Acquired from the above by the present owner

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