The Show to End All Shows: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Museum of Modern Art, 1940

New York: Museum of Modern Art; Studies in Modern Art Ser. 8, 2004. 240 pages, illustrations, plans; 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Includes letters and manuscripts related to the never-published catalogue to the exhibition "Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect," held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, November 12, 1940 to January 5, 1941. "'To accompany the exhibition, Frank Lloyd Wright: American Architect, the Museum planned a publication in the form of a Festshchrift, commissioning essays from the best-known architectural figures of the day . . . Wright, however, took issue with parts of the book'-- (p.11) and it was not published. This publication includes the Festscrift essays, the incendiary exchange of correspondence between Wright and the Museum about the book and an essay by Kathryn Smith." - Publisher. CONTENTS: The show to end all shows : Frank Lloyd Wright and the Museum of Modern Art, 1940, by Kathryn Smith; Letters and telegrams, by introduction by William Kaizen; Original manuscripts, by introduction by Peter Reed. Frank Lloyd Wright, by Walter Curt Behrendt; Frank Lloyd Wright, by Walter Curt Behrendt as edited by Frank Lloyd Wright; To my critics, by Frank Lloyd Wright; Frank Lloyd Wright : his influence in America, by Talbot Hamlin; Wright's influence abroad, by Henry-Russell Hitchcock; Builder and poet : Frank Lloyd Wright, by Fiske Kimball; The early impress of Japan on Wright's art, by Grant Manson; "Museum of Modern Art opens large exhibition of the work of Frank Lloyd Wright", by John McAndrew; Structure and design in the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, by Richard Neutra; My Frank Lloyd Wright, by Alvar Aalto; Untitled, by Harwell Hamilton Harris; 1940 : Frank Lloyd Wright, by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe; To meet-to know-to battle-to love-Frank Lloyd Wright, by Edgar J. Kaufmann, Sr.; Untitled, by Liliane Kaufmann; Untitled, by Edgar J. Kaufmann, Jr.. Paperback. Fine. 4to.