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Drawing of an elevation of the Guggenheim Museum. The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives (The Museum of Modern Art | Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, New York), #4305.629.

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 […]

 

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American architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) looks over a drawing with his assistants at the Hillside Drafting Studio on the Wright's Taliesin Estate near Spring Green, Wisconsin, c. 1957. (Photo by ? Marvin Koner/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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 […]

 

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Sepia studio photograph of a young boy next to a table with a vase. From the Wisconsin Historical Society - Wright collection, 1869-1968. Image ID: 31680

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 […]

 

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