{"id":2120,"date":"2013-06-05T13:07:21","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T20:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2120"},"modified":"2013-06-05T13:07:21","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T20:07:21","slug":"spratling-william-philip-jr-1900","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2120","title":{"rendered":"SPRATLING, WILLIAM PHILIP, JR., 1900-1967"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Architect, silversmith; art teacher. Born&#8211; Sept. 22, 1900 in Sonyea, Livingston County, N.Y.; grew up in Auburn, Alabama.\u00a0Parents&#8211; William Philip and Anna (Gorton) Spratling. Education&#8211; Alabama Polytechnic Institute School of Architecture; attended Beaux Art Institute, New York City, 1919. Taught architecture at Tulane University 1921-1929; National University of Mexico, 1927-1929;\u00a0 moved to Mexico in late 1920s, settling at Taxco where he founded a silversmith industry and taught the art to local craftsmen; at request of President Eisenhower taught handicrafts to Eskimos. Active in the literary and art scene in New Orleans and in Mexico; a close friend and associate of many prominent artists and writers, including William Faulkner, with whom he traveled in Europe in the 1920&#8217;s. Promoted the art of the Mexican painter Diego Rivera;\u00a0 instrumental in the first American exhibit of Diego Rivera&#8217;s work. Collected prehistoric artefacts of Mexico; donated his collection to the National University of Mexico.\u00a0Designed the seal of Auburn University, still in use. Awarded an honorary\u00a0L.H.D. by Auburn University, 1962.\u00a0Died August 7, 1967.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alabama Magazine, Dec. 1985; Who Was Who in America, Vol. 4.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>File on Spratling; an Autobiography. Boston; Little, Brown, 1967.<\/p>\n<p>Frescoes of Diego Rivera.\u00a0 1931.<\/p>\n<p>Little Mexico. New York; J. Cape &amp; H. Smith, 1931.<\/p>\n<p>More Human than Divine&#8230;. Mexico City; Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 1960.<\/p>\n<p>Old Plantation Houses in Louisiana. New York; W. Helburn, 1927.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[With William Faulkner]. Sherwood Anderson and Other Famous Creoles. New Orleans; Pelican Bookshop Press, 1967.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A collection of the papers of William Philip Spratling Jr. is held by the Ralph Brown Draughon Library at Auburn University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Architect, silversmith; art teacher. Born&#8211; Sept. 22, 1900 in Sonyea, Livingston County, N.Y.; grew up in Auburn, Alabama.\u00a0Parents&#8211; William Philip and Anna (Gorton) Spratling. Education&#8211; Alabama Polytechnic Institute School of Architecture; attended Beaux Art Institute, New York City, 1919. Taught architecture at Tulane University 1921-1929; National University of Mexico, 1927-1929;\u00a0 moved to Mexico in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-p-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}