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Spratling Reference
Materials
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The
Alaska Sunday Press "Spratling Ivory-Metal
Craft Exhibit to be Shown Tomorrow" October 2, 1949
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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 20th
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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