FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT | CLERESTORY WINDOW FROM THE AVERY COONLEY PLAYHOUSE, RIVERSIDE, ILLINOIS

Avery and Queene Ferry Coonley, Avery Coonley Playhouse, Riverside, Illinois, 1912-1920

Thence by acquisition of the Avery Coonley Playhouse, 1920-1967

Elliot Golub, Winnetka, Illinois, 1967-1986

Domino’s Center for Architecture and Design, Ann Arbor, Michigan, acquired from the above, 1986

Christie’s New York, December 9, 1994, lot 245 (one of two)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

David A. Hanks, The Decorative Designs of Frank Lloyd Wright, New York, 1979, pp. 112-113 (for the commission and period photographs of the Avery Coonley Playhouse interior)

Frank Lloyd Wright: Art in Design, exh. cat., Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, 1983, pp. 30 (for a period photograph of the Avery Coonley Playhouse interior)

David A. Hanks, Frank Lloyd Wright, Preserving an Architectural Heritage, Decorative Designs from The Domino's Pizza Collection, exh. cat., New York, 1989, pp. 74-81 (for the commission and a period photograph of the Avery Coonley Playhouse interior) and 79 (for the present lot illustrated)

Anthony Alofsin, Frank Lloyd Wright: The Lost Years, 1910-1922, A Study of Influence, Chicago, 1993, p. 73 (for a period photograph of the Avery Coonley Playhouse interior)

Terence Riley, ed., Frank Lloyd Wright: Architect, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1994, p. 165 (for a period photograph of the Avery Coonley Playhouse interior)

Thomas A. Heinz, Frank Lloyd Wright: Glass Art, Berlin, 1994, pp. 149-153 (for the commission and period photographs of the Avery Coonley Playhouse interior)

Julie L. Sloan, Light Screens: The Complete Leaded Glass of Frank Lloyd Wright, New York, 2001, pp. 284-293 (for the commission, illustrations, period photographs of the Avery Coonley Playhouse interior and artist sketches) and 291, no. 371 (for the present lot illustrated)

Dean Eastman, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Coonley House: Story of a Masterpiece, 2012, pp. 71-77 (for the commission and period photographs of the Avery Coonley Playhouse interior)

The Coonley Playhouse windows are among the most highly prized windows by Frank Lloyd Wright, and some eleven international institutions have acquired examples for their collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York; the Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; the Los Angeles County Art Museum; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Die Neue Sammlung, Munich; and the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.