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WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd, illustrator. "July Fourth." On the cover of Town & Country Magazine. New York: Hearst Magazines, July 1937.
2o (342 x 250 mm). Original decorative wrappers (a bit faded, lightly soiled, foot of the spine a bit scuffed).
FIRST EDITION, RARE. In 1927 Wright turned his hand to graphic design. Through the connections of his illustrator sister, Maginel Wright Barney (1881-1966), he hoped to have some of his designs published by Liberty Magazine. For each month of the year "Wright designed a beautiful assortment of geometrically abstract illustrations based on such themes as icicles, jewels, balloons, rain showers, baskets, desert landscapes, cacti, the fertile earth, gift boxes, and garden window vistas. The most renowned piece of the assortment, officially titled 'July Fourth,' featured a stunningly vibrant abstraction of a Fourth of July parade scene" (O'Connell). Unfortunately Wright's ideas were ahead of his time and he failed to sell Liberty any of his designs, however ten years later Wright was back in fashion and the "July Fourth" was taken up by Town & Country, the only one of the original twelve designs to be published. Eric O'Connell, "Frank Lloyd Wright's Grand Old Flag" in PrairieMod, June 2008. Not in Sweeney.
2o (342 x 250 mm). Original decorative wrappers (a bit faded, lightly soiled, foot of the spine a bit scuffed).
FIRST EDITION, RARE. In 1927 Wright turned his hand to graphic design. Through the connections of his illustrator sister, Maginel Wright Barney (1881-1966), he hoped to have some of his designs published by Liberty Magazine. For each month of the year "Wright designed a beautiful assortment of geometrically abstract illustrations based on such themes as icicles, jewels, balloons, rain showers, baskets, desert landscapes, cacti, the fertile earth, gift boxes, and garden window vistas. The most renowned piece of the assortment, officially titled 'July Fourth,' featured a stunningly vibrant abstraction of a Fourth of July parade scene" (O'Connell). Unfortunately Wright's ideas were ahead of his time and he failed to sell Liberty any of his designs, however ten years later Wright was back in fashion and the "July Fourth" was taken up by Town & Country, the only one of the original twelve designs to be published. Eric O'Connell, "Frank Lloyd Wright's Grand Old Flag" in PrairieMod, June 2008. Not in Sweeney.