“Review of *The Drawings of Louis Henry Sullivan: A Catalogue of the Frank Lloyd Wright Collection at the Avery Architectural Library*, by Paul E. Sprague”

AboutJohn Zukowsky, writing from the Art Institute of Chicago's Burnham Library, reviews Paul E. Sprague's *The Drawings of Louis Henry Sullivan*. He praises Sprague's introduction and catalogue entries but challenges three of Sprague's claims by comparing them against the Art Institute's own roughly 540-sheet Adler and Sullivan drawing collection: that ornamental drawings dominate Sullivan's surviving graphic work, that the Avery drawings were made entirely freehand, and that fewer than 200 Sullivan drawings survive in total. He also raises the problem of attribution given draftsmen such as Parker Berry and Louis J. Millet, and notes George Elmslie's role as executor of Sullivan's estate and as the source of a separate cache of Sullivan sketches.

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