THE LATEST FROM ‘MS. KEIRAN’.
Doing too many Taliesin tours
Reading Time: 5 minutes My post today isn’t going to be about taking too many Taliesin tours, but about giving too many of them. That’s because, you see, we’re coming into late September and I realized that the Taliesin tour guides right now may start to feel like what I wrote years ago in my unpublished memoir, “What […]
Flower in the Crannied Wall at Taliesin
Reading Time: 5 minutes I posted today because I want to talk about the “Flower in the Crannied Wall” statue at Taliesin. She was originally designed for Frank Lloyd Wright’s Susan Lawrence Dana residence in Springfield, IL (1902-04). Sculptor Richard Bock make her in terra cotta for Wright and she was placed inside, near the front door of the […]
The wedding anniversary of Frank Lloyd Wright and Olgivanna
Reading Time: 4 minutes Frank Lloyd Wright standing with daughters Svetlana and Iovanna, while his wife, Olgivanna, looks at the photographer. Wright’s sister, Maginel, sits behind them with the dog. Judging from Iovanna’s age, I think this was taken in the summer of 1930-32. The group is seated at Taliesin’s Tea Circle steps. I can’t find an early photo […]
