Spratling Silver Reference Materials


	Spratling Reference Materials *The Alaska Sunday Press* "Spratling Ivory-Metal Craft Exhibit to be Shown Tomorrow" October 2, 1949 American Federation of Arts, Mexican Arts 1930 - 1931 Anderson, Elizabeth and Kelly, Gerald, Miss Elizabeth Little Brown and Company 1969 Architectural Digest, "William Spratling Collection" Winter 1965 pp110-113. Discussion and photographs of Spratling’s Pre-Columbian artifacts Artes de Mexico, "A Close-up of Taxco" No 5 1989 pp 81-96 Artes de Mexico, "Las Formas del Metal" 1990 Especial pp 37-39 Atchison, Sandra, "A Bohemian’s Mexican Silver Legacy" Business Week June 6, 1944 p 122 Atl, Dr., God Almightly in Mexico Translated by William Spratling Barnes, Vivien Ruth, "Alumnus of the Month" The Auburn Alumnews June 1946, Bass Museum of Art, Mid Century Design 1985. Catalogue of exhibit Battersby, Martin, "Art Deco Jewelry" Architectural Digest November/December 1976 pp 144-148 Behr, Rocky, "Lined with Silver" Las Noticias August, September, October 1993 pp 1,4 Benjamin, Robert Spiers, "Eskimos Down South" Americas September 1949 Birmingham Museum of Art, The World of William Spratling 1965, Booklet from museum exhibit Bloomgarden, Richard The Easy Guide to Taxco and Environs 1979 Bowman, Heath and Dickinson, Stirling, Mexican Odyssey Willet, Clark & Co. 1935 Brenner, Anita, Your Mexican Holiday, A Modern Guide G.P. Putnam’s Sons 1932 Brown, C.J. "Silver Magic" Mexico Travel 1988 pp 13-15 Castrejon, Jaime, William Spratling. Booklet of archeological artifact photos, pictures of silver, of Spratling, etc. Cederwall, Sandraline and Riney, Hal, Spratling Silver Chronicle Books, 1990. Introduction by Barnaby Conrad. Pictorial volume includes hallmarks of each piece in addition to a hallmark chronology Cederwall, Sandraline and Riney, Hal, Spratling Silver Centennial Edition, Chronicle Books 2000 Expanded and updated edition with twenty three new full page photographs. (Three pages of photos from the first edition have been deleted). Chan, Barba Beatriz de Pina, "La Joyeria Mexicana" Artes de Mexico No. 165 pp 5-48 Chase, Stuart, Mexico Macmillan Company 1931 Clark, Sidney, All the Best in Mexico Dodd, Mead & Company 1953 pp 210-211 Cohn, Gunther, "Plata Mexicana, The 20^th Century Revival" West Coast Peddler August 1992 pp 23-32 Colburn, Forrest, "Silversmith Maestro Thomas Vega" Ornament (18) 1 1994 pp 34-37 Covarrubias, Miguel, Mezcala with Notes by William Spratling Wittenborn and Company New York 1956 Davidoff, Karen, Mexican Silver Jewelry: The American School 1930-1960 1985. Catalog of exhibition. Photos of silver pieces by major Mexican silversmiths Davis, Mary and Pack, Greta, Mexican Jewelry University of Texas Press 1963. Book about Mexican jewelry from colonial times to present. Photographs and hallmarks Day, MIchael "Mexico, City of Silver" Popular Mechanics Magazine June 1952 pp 120-124. 220 Dektar, Joan, "California’s Mary Loos, QA Keeper of the Flame" Los Angeles Times Homes Magazine April 10, 1977 pp 24-27 Deutsch, Hermann, "Ex-TU Instructor Gets Auburn Degree" United States Item December 17, 1962 DiNoto, Andrea and Cashion, Cathy, Trash or Treasure? Tree Communication, Inc. 1977. Price guide. One Spratling pin Don Guillermo Spratling December 1996 Duncan, Alastair, American Art Deco Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 1986 Duncan, Robert David, "William Spratling's Mexican World" Texas Quarterly Spring 1966 El Departamento de Arquitectura de INBA, El Arte en la Vida Diaria: Exposicion de Objetos de Buen Diseño Hechos en Mexico 1952 Ellsberg, Helen, "Spratling Silver" The Western Collector August 1969 Ellsberg, Helen, "Spratling Silver" Metropolitan Home 1988 Enciso, Jorge, Design Motifs of Ancient Mexico Dover Publications, Inc. 1947 Enciso, Jorge, Deisgns from Pre-Columbian Mexico Dover Publications, Inc. 1971 Eppen, Joan, "Mexican Silver" L.A. Bead Society Newsletter March 1995 pp 10-11 Figueroa, Leslie C. de, Stuffed Shirt in Taxco Taxco School of Art 1961 Figueroa, Leslie C. de, Taxco, Mexico’s Silver City University Press 1947 Forcum, Edward, "William SpratlingDesign and Style" Modernism, The LA Show 1991 pp 7-9 Ford News, "Adventure in Craftsmanship" December 1940 Forman, Chan, "A Visit to Taxco's Genius" Chicago Sun-Times May 5, 1963 Foscue, Edwin J., Taxco Mexico’s Silver City University Press 1947. Book about Taxco. Includes a photograph of the interior of Spratling’s shop Foundation Europalia 93, Mexican Silver 1987 Fox, Lorna Scott, "Three Different Artists, Three Distinct Visions" Mexico City News February 22, 1987 pp 17-20. Catalog of exhibit in Belgium. Includes many photos of Spratling designs Fundacion Cultural Televisia, Spratling 1987. Catalog of the exhibit held in February 1987 in Mexico City. Written in Spanish. Many photos Fundacion Cultural Televisia, William Spratling Folio of Drawings 1987 Fusco, Tony, The Confident Collector "Mexican Silver Jewelry" by Berk and Morrill pp 252-262 Galbraith, Bessie, "The Plateros of Taxco" Town & Country November 1980 pp 288-292 Garcia-Noriega Nieto, Lucia, "Mexican Silver: William Spratling and the Taxco Style" The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts Fall 1988 pp 42-53. Folio of jewelry, flatware, and hollowware designs Goddard, Dan R., "Spratling's Jewelry Created Opportunity, Too" San Antonio Express-News December 19, 2002 Gonzalez, Alexandra, "Lockruf des Silbers" Architectural Digest (German) Februar/Marz 2000 pp 40-44 Gordon, Leah, "William Spratling" Antiques and the Arts Weekly July 31, 1998 p.92 Greenhaw, Wayne, "Auburn Man, Mexican Hero" Alabama Magazine December 1985 pp 16-17 Greenhaw, Wayne, My Heart is in the Earth River City Publishing 2001 Greenhaw, Wayne, "William Spratling" Alabama Heritage Winter 2001 pp 28-37 Hammond, Ralph, Personal Encounters Livingston Press 2001 Heydn, Doris, "Jewels for Alaskans" Pemex Travel Club Bulletin May 1, 1949 p2 Hobart, Lois, "The New Colonialists" Arizona Highways October 1972 p 14 Hougart, Bille, The Little Book of Mexican Silver Trade and Hallmarks TBR International 2001 Huelsing, Kristi, "Bold Mexican Silver" Traditional Home November 1995 pp 42-44 International Design Annual: Idea 1955 Wittenborn 1955 #246 Kelly, Gerald R., Spratling Silver in Taxco 1988. Booklet written in Spanish prepared for the Mexico City exhibition in 1988. Photographs and drawings of Spratling pieces Kuchinskas, Susan, "Chips off the Old Block" Worth October 1994 pp 130-132 La Platería Mexicana, Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia 1994 pp 118-121, 124 Le Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Design 1935 – 1965 What Modern Was Harry N. Abrams 1991. Features art works and artists representative of the "modern style." *Life,* "Industries" February 24, 1947 Littleton, Taylor D., William Spratling: His life and Art Louisiana State University Press 2000 Macedo, Luis Ortiz, "Las Plazas y sus Fuentes" Artes de Mexico No. 5 1989 pp 59-71 Mark, Joan, The Silver Gringo: William Spratling and Taxco University of New Mexico Press 2000 McDonough, Michael, "William Spratling: Sterling Star" Metropolitan Home April 1991 p 74 McEvoy, J.P., "Silver Bill, Practical Good Neighbor" Reader’s Digest September 1945. Article formed the basis of the film "Man from New Orleans" 1949 McMenamin, Donna, Popular Arts of Mexico 1850 – 1950 Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. 1996 Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mexico, Splendors of Thirty Centuries Bulfinch Press 1990 Mexican Arts, Catalogue of an Exhibition Organized and Circulated by The American Federation of Arts 1930-1931 Mexico D.F. "Mexican Flat Silverware Is Striking - and Useful" December 7, 1952 Montgomery Ward, The Christmas Book 1943 Montgomery Ward Christmas catalog. Has five pages (including cover) of Spratling merchandise for sale Morrill, Penny Chittim, Hecho En Mexico 1990. Descriptive text about various designers with photos of their works Morrill, Penny Chittim, and Berk, Carole, Mexican Silver Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. 1994. Comprehensive discussion of contemporary Mexican silver industry and descriptions of specific designers’ works. Many objects are pictured. Morrill, Penny Chittim, "William Spratling, A Lustrous Life" Modernism Magazine Winter 2000-1 Volume 3 Number 4 Morrill, Penny Chittim, Silver Masters of Mexico Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. 1996 Morrill, Penny Chittim, "Spratling/Silson Jewelry" Silver Magazine March/April 1995 pp 12-14 Morrill, Penny Chittim, "Mexican Silver: William Spratling and the Revolutionary Aesthetic." AmericanAntiques.com 2001 Morrill, Penny Chittim, "Defining William Spratling" Ornament Autumn 2002 Morrill, Penny Chittim, "Several Spratling Marks Revisited" Silver Magazine March/April 2003 pp 32 - 37 Morrill, Penny C. et al, William Spratling and the Mexican Silver Renaissance Harry C. Abrams, Inc. in association with the San Antonio Museum of Art 2002 Morrow, Elizabeth, Casa Mañana Spiral Press 1932 Museo Nacional de Artes e Industrias Populares, Mexican Silverwork 1952. Booklet discusses the development of the silver industry from its PreColumbian beginnings. Photos. Norman, James, A Shopper’s Guide to Mexico Dolphin Books 1959, 1966. Book includes background and heritage of Mexican arts and crafts Nosotros, "Taxco Ahonda en se Mismo al Progresar" July 29, 1944 pp 51-60 Oles, James, South of the Border, Mexico in the American Imagination 1914 – 1917 Smithsonian Institution Press 1993. Catalog from exhibit at Yale University. Otis Art Center, "Inventory of Spratling Exhibit" 1965 Pamfiloff, Sheila, "Taxco Silver Jewelry: A Monument to a Vision" Vintage Summer 2000 pp2 - 5, 7 Peregrine Galleries, Taxco Silver Designers 1930 – 1950 1992 Pearson, Ann, "Spratling was an Auburn Man of Many Hats" Auburn Bulletin August 31, 1980. Pearson, Ann, "Silver Bill Follows His Dream Down Mexico Way" Auburn Bulletin September 7, 1980. Phillips, Henry Albert, New Designs for Old Mexico Robert M. McBride and Company 1939. Book about touring Mexico. Includes a description of Spratling and his studio Pyle, Ernie, "The Life of Reilly as Exemplified by an Expatriate Esthete in Mexico: An Alabaman Finds Life Good in Taxco" Scripps Howard Newspapers April 16, 1935 Reed, John Shelton, "The Man from New Orleans" Oxford American Issue 36, November/December 2000 Rohter, Larry, "In Mexico, Spratling Means Silver" New York Times December 17, 1987 pp 21-23 Romero, Christie, Warman’s Jewelry Wallace-Homestead 1995. Price guide with good background on the Mexican silver industry. Some photos of Spratling pieces Romero, Christie, Warman's Jewelry 2nd Edition Krause Publications 1998 Romero, Christie, "William Spratling and the Taxco School: Mexican Silver Jewelry" Jewelers’ Circular – Keystone March 1993 pp 68-75 Romero, Pepe, My Mexico City and Yours Dolphin Books 1962 Russell, Candice, "An Art of Vibrant Expression" Sky Magazine December 1990 pp 26-36 *School Arts,* "Jewelry: William Spratling" November 1951 Schwartz, Ed, "Mexican Silver: Its Time to Shine" Antiques West May 1992 pp 3-4 Schwartz, Ed, "Pay Attention to Dillingham, or Who is Tarnishing Silver?" Antiques West 1994 Schiffer, Nancy N., Silver Jewelry Designs Schiffer Publishing Ltd. 1996. One section of the book is about Mexican silver jewelry and evaluates it as "good, better, best." Many photos Scott, Natalie V., 200 Years of New Orleans Cooking Decorations by William Spratling Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith 1931 Scott, Natalie V., Your Mexican Kitchen With a Forward by William Spratling G P Putnam's Sons New York 1935 Shipway, Verna Cook and Shipway, Warren, The Mexican House, Old New Architectural Book Publishing Co., Inc. 1960 Shipway, Verna Cook and Shipway, Warren, Mexican Interiors Architectural Book Publishing Co., Inc. 1962 Spratling, William and Scott, Natalie Vivian, Old Plantation Houses in Louisiana William Helburn Inc. 1927 Spratling, William, Pencil Drawing The Penguin Book Shop New Orleans 1923 Spratling, William, Picturesque New Orleans Tulane University Press 1923 Spratling, William, File on Spratling Little Brown & Co. 1967. Autobiography published after Spratling’s death. Includes drawings by Spratling Spratling, William, A Small Mexican World Little Brown & Co. 1964. Spratling’s description of Mexican life originally published as Little Mexico by Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith in 1932. Drawings by Spratling and forward by Diego Rivera. Spratling, William, More Human than Divine Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico 1960. A book of photographs of the Remojadas of Vera Cruz Spratling, William and Faulkner, William, Sherwood Anderson and Other Famous Creoles University of Texas Press 1966, Spratling’s caricatures of his and Faulkner’s friends from their New Orleans days Spratling, William, Little Mexico Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith 1932. Description of Mexican life. Forward by Diego Rivera. Drawings by Spratling Spratling, William, Fine Mexican Silver, Revised List 1944 – 1945. Sales catalog Spratling, William, "Indo-Hispanic Mexico: I Some Notes on the Manner in Which Indian Form and Impulse has Persisted and Continued Through an Imposed Culture." Architecture February 1929 pp 75 - 80 Spratling, William, "Indo-Hispanic Mexico: II Some Notes on the Manner in Which Indian Form and Impulse has Persisted and Continued Through an Imposed Culture." Architecture March 1929 pp 139 - 144 Spratling, William, "The True Color of Silver is White" Mexico This Month 1956 pp 22-28 Spratling, William, "Five Studies of Cane River Characters from the Sketch-Book of William Spratling" Scribner’s Magazine, Volume 83, Jan. – June 1928 pp 410-418 Spratling, William, "Silver City of the Clouds" Travel Magazine July 1929 pp 22-23 Spratling, William, "Figures in a Mexican Renaissance" Scribners pp 14-21 Spratling, William, "Flight to the North Star" Flying March 1950 Spratling, William, "25 Anos de Plateria Moderna" Artes de Mexico December 1955 pp 61-90 Spratling, William, "Concerning JADE in America" Intercambio August 31, 1959 Spratling, William, Guerrero: "Presence of the Past" Intercambio November 1962 Spratling, William, "Modern Mexican Silversmithing" Mexican Art & Life July 1938 last 3 pages Spratling, William, "Mansions of the Conquistadors" Travel Magazine August 1929 pp 28-31+ Spratling, William, "The Expressive Pencil" Pencil Points June 1929 pp 365, 366, 371, 372 Spratling, William, MÉXICO tras lomita Editorial Diana, Mexico 1991 Stephenson, William, "Master Silversmith of Mexico" Coronet Magazine August 1947 pp 40-43 Stromberg, Gobi, The Marketing and Production of Innovation: The Taxco Silver Industry 1976 Stromberg, Gobi, El Juego del Coyote: Plateria y Arte en Taxco Fondo de Cultura Economica 1985. Book in Spanish about development and practices of silver manufacturing in Taxco Tibol, Raquel, "David Alfaro Siquerios en Taxco" Artes de Mexico No 5 1989 pp 76-79 The Times Picayune New Orleans States Magazine, "He’s Teaching Eskimos in Mexico" June 5, 1949 p 5-6 *Tiempo* "Esquimales en Tasco" March 11, 1949 Time Magazine, "Fiesta at Taxco" July 7, 1942 p 26 Toor, Frances, Frances Toor's Motorist Guide to Mexico Frances Toor Studios 1938 Toor, Frances, Frances Toor's New Guide to Mexico Crown Publishers 1946 Toor, Frances, A Treasury of Mexican Folkways Crown Publishers 1947 Tucson Museum of Art, Reflections: Precolumbian Inspiration in Mexican Silver Design, 1930 - 1970 Tucson Museum of Art 1999 Exhibit catalog. Warner Brothers, Man from New Orleans Film 1946 Wick, Ted, "Ted Wick in Taxco" The Mexico City News September 14, 1986 p 18 Wolf, Toni Lesser, "Silver Bill, William Spratling Creator of Modern Taxco Silver" Metalsmith Winter 1991 pp 30-35 Wolfe, Lisa, "William Spratling: One of Auburn's Best Kept Secrets" The Auburn Alumnews November-December 1990

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