Frame from the Avery Coonley House, circa 1908

Details

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT (1867-1959)
Frame from the Avery Coonley House, circa 1908
birch, woodblock print, linen, glass
27 13/16 x 15 11/16 in. (70.6 x 39.8 cm)

Provenance

The Avery Coonley House, Riverside, Illinois, circa 1908
The Collection of Wilbert Hasbrouck, Chicago, Illinois
Private Collection
Toomey & Co., 9 June 2021, lot 596
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Literature

H. A. Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School, New York, 1984, p. 66
K.H. Brown, Kawase Hasui: The Complete Woodblock Prints, Amsterdam, 2003 p. 579 (for the woodblock print)
A. Weintraub, M. Stipe, Frank Lloyd Wright: The Rooms, Interiors and Decorative Arts, New York, 2014, pp. 76-79 (for photographs of the house)

Further details

Together with a Japanese Edo period woodblock print by Kawase Hasui (1883-1957) entitled Katsuura Inlet, Kii (Kii Katsura), circa 1951.

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Lot Essay

“Of all the fine homes I have ever seen, I would like to have reserved the word great for the Coonley house…In all my years of searching for houses worth holding up as examples from which to learn, I have never been so completely satisfied, so completely enchanted as with this magnificent house. It is a great work of art, the epitome of shelter. Here, in one residence, art and life come together.” Frank Lloyd Wright on the Avery Coonley House

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