The Walter Burley Griffin Society of America
is proud to announce...
MARION MAHONY AND THE CHURCH OF ALL SOULS
By Paul Kruty and James Weirick
with an introduction by the Rev. Eileen Wiviott
In this new monograph, Marion Mahony’s Church of All Souls, completed in 1904 and lost to the world in 1960, has been brought back to life. Commissioned by the Rev. James Vila Blake and built on a residential lot in Evanston, Illinois, the building was the earliest constructed work by Chicago’s first great woman architect. Presented in a scholarly publication for the first time are the two windows recently found in California and now in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago and the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia. In addition, a newly discovered perspective rendering of the church provides the earliest known example of the extraordinary ability of Mahony to capture a building’s essence, and necessitates a revision of the beginning date of her revolutionary graphic style, soon after to be used by Frank Lloyd Wright to enhance the presentation of his own buildings.
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GRIFFIN SOCIETY POSTERS
The Griffin Society is pleased to make its set of conference posters available for purchase. For the past six years the Society has commissioned commemorative posters for its annual meetings from the Brooklyn Studio of Peter Kruty and Sayre Gaydos. Hand printed with fine inks on handmade papers in limited editions, they are artworks in themselves and make excellent additions to the collections of architecture aficionados, Griffin followers, or anyone looking for an affordable and unique gift. The Society is offering these elegant prints for the modest price of $35 apiece including postage and handling (within the United States).
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Peter Kruty is a master printer and, together with his partner Sayre Gaydos, is the proprietor of Peter Kruty Editions, a fine art and commercial letterpress studio located in a charming two-story former horse stable in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Peter trained under Richard-Gabriel Rummonds at The University of Alabama and has graduate degrees in both letterpress and printmaking. The studio, now in its twenty-fourth year, collaborates with numerous contemporary artists and designers, including Lesley Dill, Louise Lawler, Eliza Kentridge, and Walton Ford. Its productions are widely collected both privately and by museums and libraries. Peter has taught book arts extensively in the United States and currently instructs letterpress at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. Peter and Sayre also teach a letterpress workshop at the renowned Tipoteca Italiana Fondazione in Cornuda, Italy.
As an undergraduate at the University of Chicago, Peter studied architectural history under Paul Sprague, developing an early interest in the Prairie School and Walter Burley Griffin. He attends the meetings of the Griffin Society as his schedule permits and has been pleased to offer his services in producing the conference posters for the last six meetings. Peter and Sayre have created the posters at little more than cost and have donated all proceeds to the Griffin Society.
Peter Kruty
365 40th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11232
peterkrutyeditions@peterkrutyeditions.com
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