Photographs by William R. Current

William Current grew up in Pasadena and began photographing the work of Greene and Greene as a teenager. He received a Guggenheim Foundation grant in the 1970s, resulting in a comprehensive documentation of all of the Greenes' work that was made accessible to him. He also traveled to the Avery Library at Columbia University and to the Environmental Design Archives at UC Berkeley to photograph many of the drawings (Avery) and historic photographs of the houses (Berkeley). The project became a traveling exhibition and a book, produced in collaboration with his wife Karen Current. Box 124 contains the 1950s photographs. Most of the others appear to date from the 1970s. Negatives and contact prints of images not printed enrich the collection with extra images of the buildings, architectural drawings and historic photographs, making it a valuable resource for study as well as an aesthetic treasure.

Also included are a few photographs documenting other Arts and Crafts work, such as the Keyes bungalow in Altadena and the work of Buffalo Metalworks.

Karen Current Sinsheimer and Jennifer Current donated more than 1600 original prints and negatives by Current to the Greene and Greene Archives in 2005.