Bibliografía
Goddard, Phyllis. 2000. www.spratlingsilver.com.
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 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 79
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
Fundación Cultural Televisa, Spratling 1987. Catalog of the exhibit held in February 1987 in
Mexico City. Written in Spanish. Many photos
Fundación Cultural Televisa, William Spratling Folio of Drawings 1987
Fusco, Tony, The Confident Collector "Mexican Silver Jewelry" by Berk and Morrill pp 252262
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 1617
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 1214
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 6190
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 2831+
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 4043
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
Montiel, Anya. Remarkable Story Uncovered: The IACB Collection Reveals the cultural
Fusion of Visionary Silversmith William Spratling and the Alaskan Artisans He Inspired. The
National Museum of the American Indian. Vol. 3 (Number2, Spring 2002): 24-25.