Keiran Murphy has been the principal historic researcher at Taliesin, the home of Frank Lloyd Wright located outside of Spring Green, WI. Murphy has been involved in the research, preservation and interpretation of the five-building complex on the Taliesin Estate, co-author (with architectural historian Anne Biebel) of a published article on a find at Wright’s Hillside structure, as well as the Hillside Comprehensive Chronology.
She served as co-curator of “Taliesin: the Work of a Lifetime” in 2011, has given a number of PowerPoint presentations on the history of Wright, his home, his family, and his Taliesin Fellowship community, narrated a 3-D Virtual tour of Taliesin, and has consulted on several books about Wright and Taliesin. Murphy received her MA in Art History from the University of Wisconsin and her BFA from Emerson College, in Boston, MA.
THE LATEST FROM ‘MS. KEIRAN’.
Frank Lloyd Wright’s design of the Guggenheim Museum
Reading Time: 6 minutes Drawing of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City. My post this week is going to be about where Wright designed the Guggenheim Museum He designed it in New York City, you silly! No. I mean: in which of his studios did Wright first draw the plan for the museum? See, the Guggenheim […]
The Taliesin Fellowship
Reading Time: 5 minutes A photograph of Frank Lloyd Wright with apprentices at a drafting table in the Hillside Drafting Studio. Photo taken by Marvin Koner in June 1958. When I gave tours, I introduced the Taliesin Fellowship as: a coeducational apprentice program that Wright and his wife, Olgivanna, started in 1932. They wanted the apprentices to participate in […]
Frank Lloyd Wright birth and birthplace
Reading Time: 3 minutes Theodore Farrington took this photograph of a young Frank Wright in Macgregor, Iowa. The Wrights lived there from 1871 until 1873. As June 8 approaches, it’s time for the annual performance of: “When and Where was Frank Lloyd Wright born” So, I’ve got you covered on “when”. I wrote about that several years ago in […]