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Columbia University: Avery Architecture and Fine Arts Library

Columbia University: Avery Architecture and Fine Arts Library

300 Avery Hall
1172 Amsterdam Avenue M.C. 0301
New York, NY 10027, United States
Located in Avery Hall, the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library collects books and periodicals in architecture, historic preservation, art history, painting, sculpture, graphic arts, decorative arts, city planning, real estate, and archaeology. The Library contains more than 250,000 volumes and receives approximately 1,500 periodicals.

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Start Over You searched for: Repository Columbia University: Avery Architecture and Fine Arts Library Remove constraint Repository: Columbia University: Avery Architecture and Fine Arts Library Creator Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 Remove constraint Creator: Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 Level Collection Remove constraint Level: Collection Names Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library Remove constraint Names: Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library Names Taliesin Fellowship Remove constraint Names: Taliesin Fellowship Subject Architecture -- Exhibitions Remove constraint Subject: Architecture -- Exhibitions

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Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959

Approximately 1,000 architectural drawings, circa 1880-1959, with related correspondence, clippings, announcements, specifications, legal documents, and photographs. Major projects represented include Auldbrass Plantation, Yemasee, S.C; the Guggenheim Museum, New York City; Fallingwater (the Edgar J. Kaufmann residence), Bear Run, Pa.; and Wright's own home and studio in Oak Park, Ill. Also, Wright's correspondence relating to exhibits and publication of his work; other professional matters; and correspondence with his son, John Lloyd Wright, 1920s-1950s; manuscript, typescript, and printed versions of articles and addresses by Wright; photographs, programs, invitations, issues of SQUARE-PAPERS, and other materials, circa 1920s-1940s, relating to Taliesin; and miscellaneous invitations, programs, announcements, honors, appreciations, memorials, clippings, and other documents relating to various aspects of Wright's career.

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Price, Paton, 1916-1982
The material spans the years 1948 to 1958 and documents Paton Price's relationship with Frank Lloyd Wright through the course of planning the New Theater to be located in Hartford, CT. The collection consists of letters, telegrams, publicity material, photographs, and a perspective view of the Theater signed by Wright.