Selections from the Collection of Jesse “Cary” Caraway (1917-1994) Lots 398-417
The Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture was established as the Taliesin Fellowship in 1932. The Fellowship emphasized a curriculum based on apprenticeship and hands-on learning, and early apprentices, immersed in Wright’s organic approach, worked together with Wright on projects like the Guggenheim Museum and Fallingwater. Jesse “Cary” Caraway joined the Taliesin Fellowship program on 8 June 1935 and worked there until 1942. At Taliesin, he met and married Frances Fritz, who worked for several years as Wright’s typist. Frances’s father, Herbert Fritz Sr., was one Wright’s early draftsmen, one of two who survived the fire at Taliesin in 1914. Fritz met his wife, Mary Larson, the daughter of Wright’s stonemason Alfred Larson, at Taliesin. Frances Fritz’s two siblings also had strong connections to Taliesin: Herbert Fritz, Jr. was a member of the Taliesin Fellowship, and Barbara Fritz married James Dresser, also a member of the Taliesin Fellowship. The family recalls delightful dinners and conversations when the families were together. On leaving the Taliesin Fellowship program, Caraway worked as an architect in his own right. These selections from his archive offer an intimate view of life at Taliesin as a Fellow and the work of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.
398 WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd (1867-1959). An Autobiography. New York: Longmans, Green and Company, 1932. Square 8vo. Numerous black and white photographic illustrations; decorative section titles printed in red and black. Original black cloth decorated in red and gold in Wright’s design (some slight wear, hinges loose); original pictorial dust jacket with Wright’s design printed in red and black (separated along rear fold, losses, dampstaining). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY WRIGHT: “To Carey...Frank Lloyd Wright /57.” Property of the Caraway Family $800 - 1,200
399 [FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT]. Ausgeführte Bauten. Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, 1911. 4to (302 x 215 mm). Photogravure frontispiece of Coonley House in River Forest, Illinois, two illustrated plates of Unity Temple, numerous black and white photographic illustrations and floorplans; text in German. (Lacking printed “Frank Lloyd Wright, a Study and an Appreciation” by C. R. Ashbee, some minor staining.) Original drab wrappers (spine perished, becoming disbound). Small format edition, often referred to as the “Little Wasmuth,” published after the Wasmuth portfolios of 1910-1911, whose photographic illustrations were originally intended to accompany the Wasmuth portfolio. Property of the Caraway Family $300 - 400
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