Main entry:

Olivarez, Jennifer Komar.

Title & Author:

Progressive design in the Midwest : the Purcell-Cutts House and the Prairie School Collection at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts / Jennifer Komar Olivarez ; with the assistance of Corine A. Wegener ; introductory essay by Roger G. Kennedy.

Publication:

Minneapolis, Minn. : The Institute of Arts : Distributed by the University of Minnesota Press, ©2000.

Description:

197 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-185) and index.
On being a progressive client / Roger G. Kennedy -- The Purcell-Cutts House : a modern home for the twentieth and twenty-first centuries / Jennifer Komar Olivarez -- Catalogue of objects -- Louis H. Sullivan -- Frank Lloyd Wright -- William Gray Purcell and George Grant Elmslie -- George Washington Maher -- Grueby Faience Company -- Gates Potteries (Teco) -- Northwestern Terra Cotta Company (Norweta) -- Kalo Shop -- Handicraft Guild of Minneapolis -- Lebot and Company -- Volund Shop -- Selected Prairie School buildings in the Twin Cities area.

Summary:

"Largely regarded as one of the most important movements of American architecture and design, the Prairie School helped move America into the modern age. Signaling a departure from nineteenth-century formality, its practitioners sought to create buildings that were organic and would facilitate a new, progressive way of life. This guide to the treasures of the Prairie School at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts focuses not only on the museum's collection of early twentieth-century American design but also on the Institute's historic Purcell-Cutts house, one of the most significant examples of Prairie School architecture in the country. With its historic photographs, many never before published, Progressive Design in the Midwest is a combination of history, house tour, and museum guide." "The many objects in the Institute's Prairie school collection including works by Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, William Gray Purcell, and George Grant Elmslie, among others, are described in detail. Along with each piece is a list of relevant texts, exhibitions, and the historical background of the piece, as well as information about the designer."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0816638470 (pbk.)
9780816638475 (pbk.)

Subject:

Purcell, William Gray, 1880-1965 Criticism and interpretation.
Purcell, William Gray, 1880-1965 Homes and haunts Minnesota Minneapolis.
Purcell, William Gray, 1880-1965
Purcell-Cutts House (Minneapolis, Minn.)
Minneapolis Institute of Arts Catalogs.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Minneapolis institute of arts.
Prairie school (Architecture) Minnesota Minneapolis Catalogs.
Prairie school (Architecture) Middle West Catalogs.
Arts and crafts movement Minnesota Minneapolis Catalogs.
Arts and crafts movement Middle West Catalogs.
Prairie houses (Architecture) Minnesota Minneapolis Catalogues.
Prairie houses (Architecture) Midwest (États-Unis) Catalogues.
Arts and crafts movement Minnesota Minneapolis Catalogues.
Arts and crafts movement Midwest (États-Unis) Catalogues.
Arts and crafts movement
Buildings
Homes
Prairie school (Architecture)
Prairie school (architecture) États-Unis Middle West (États-Unis)
Arts and crafts États-Unis Minnesota (États-Unis)
Arts and crafts États-Unis Middle West (États-Unis)
Minneapolis (Minn.) Buildings, structures, etc.
Middle West
Minnesota Minneapolis
1910-1959

Form/genre:

Catalogs.
catalogs (documents)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Books.
Catalogues.

Added entries:

Wegener, Corine A.
Kennedy, Roger G.
Miner, Deb, book designer.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 217726
Call No.: NA7238.M54 O4 2000
Status: Available