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The Musical-Note Retaining Wall at Taliesin
Reading Time: 4 minutes We hear he liked music, if you didn’t know that, just trust me but what is this thing about a Musical Note? I’m talking about a retaining wall outside of Taliesin and I’m going to write about it today. It’s called that because It looks like two musical quarter notes touching end-to-end.1 You can […]
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September and I realized that the Taliesin tour guides right now may start to feel like what I wrote years ago in my unpublished memoir, “What […]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 […]
Statements after the murders at Taliesin in 1914
Reading Time: 6 minutes August 15, this coming Thursday, marks 110 years since 7 people were inexplicably murdered at Frank Lloyd Wright’s home, Taliesin, by his servant, Julian Carlton. I’ve written about it a couple of times1 and had not planned on writing anything today. But I’ve gathered a lot of information over the years and, in the spirit […]
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Blue Shag Rug
Reading Time: 5 minutes Color photo taken in Wright’s bedroom at Taliesin, 1955. I don’t think you can miss the blue shag rug in the photo’s foreground. He didn’t have blue suede shoes, but he did have a blue shag rug on the floor of his Wisconsin bedroom. Someone asked about this the other day at Facebook, so I […]
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 […]
Newspaper under Taliesin’s Horse Stable
Reading Time: 6 minutes No, not Taliesin’s first horse stable (as seen in this post). I’m talking about the other Taliesin horse stable. The one he added some time in the Taliesin II era (you know, “The Forgotten Middle Child of Taliesin“). I think he stopped using the first stable when he started having draftsmen live with him. So […]
