“The deeper truths of being are also the truths of Architecture.”
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.
Never in my life have I been given a more sensitive and comprehending tour of anything, anywhere. Listening to her talk about Wright and looking at everything she pointed out, I felt as if my eyes had opened to twice their normal size.
-Terry Teachout — Culture Writer, Wall Street Journal, Author, Libretti, and Playwright
Whenever I have a question regarding anything Taliesin-related Keiran Murphy is the first person I turn to.
-Randolph C. Henning — Architect and author
… her knowledge of Frank Lloyd Wright is close to astonishing. Over many years she has simply absorbed him—and his beloved Taliesin—into her bones.” “I am in awe at her willingness—her delight—in sharing what she knows with others.
-Paul Hendrickson — Senior Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania and Author
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Links to my writing about the 1914 fire and murders at Taliesin
Reading Time: 2 minutesAlbert Rockwell took this on Taliesin’s Hill Crown looking (plan) northeast at its living quarters after the August 15, 1914 fire. The man standing might be architect Frank Lloyd Wright. I often write posts around August 15 because it’s the anniversary of Taliesin’s 1914 fire and murders. In fact, I’ve done so many posts linked […]
The Bedroom at Taliesin that Frank Lloyd Wright Used
Reading Time: 6 minutesPhotograph by Ken Hedrich looking (plan) southeast in Frank Lloyd Wright’s bedroom in 1937. Otherwise known as “Frank Lloyd Wright’s Bedroom” or “Mr. Wright’s Bedroom”, but the Internet is sometimes Persnickety About Apostrophes (and some people are persnickety about calling him “Mr. Wright”1). I’ll be talking about the bedroom at Taliesin he used after 1936.2 […]
Why I Love Wisconsin
Reading Time: 5 minutesAt the midpoint under the sky, you can just see the edge of Taliesin in this photo I took in August 2005 from Highway County C. I thought about Wright’s essay of that name (online here from the FLLW Foundation) and decided to write about why I love Wisconsin today. WHY? because recent warm and […]
