Vol. 21, no. 2

Fall 1995
In-print
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Contents Summary

Emerging in Chicago around 1900, the Prairie School was an architectural movement inspired by the flat, expansive landscape of the Midwest. This special issue serves as a fine introduction to this widely influential movement. Featured are superb works by Prairie School architects and designers, including furniture, decorative arts, drawings, building fragments, and rare books and documents. Informative entries discuss objects in the museum's departments of architecture and American arts, as well as in its Ryerson and Burnham Libraries. Also included are essays on Frank Lloyd Wright, the guiding master of the Prairie School, and architect Marion Mahony Griffin as well as an introduction by historian Robert Twombly.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Robert Twombly
Prairie School Works in the Department of Architecture at the Art Institute of Chicago
Richard Guy Wilson
The Prairie School and Decorative Arts at the Art Institute of Chicago
Judith A. Barter
Prairie School Works in the Ryerson and Burnham Libraries at the Art Institute of Chicago
Mary Woolever
“Make Designs to Your Heart’s Content”: The Frank LLoyd Wright/Schumacher Venture
Christa C. Mayer Thurman
The Life and Wrok of Marion Mahony Griffin
Janice Pregliasco
Notes

Art Institute of Chicago, 1995
8 3/8 x 10 1/4 in.; 112 pages; 104 illustrations
Softcover $15.95 ISBN 0-86559-141-5