Collection on Frank Lloyd Wright
Collection Overview
Arizona State University.
Fallingwater (Pa.).
Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.
Imperial Hotel (Tokyo, Japan).
Lighting, Architectural and decorative.
Museum architecture.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Taliesin (Spring Green, Wis.).
Taliesin East (Spring Green, Wis.).
Taliesin West (Scottsdale, Ariz.).
Usonian houses.
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.
Historical Note
Frank Lloyd Wright (FLW) was born June 8, 1867 in Richland Center, Wisconsin to William Cary Wright and Anna Lloyd Jones Wright. FLW had five siblings. When his father left the family in 1885, FLW supported the family by working as a draftsman in the civil engineering office of Spring Green. Because his boss was the dean of the engineering school at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, FLW was able to enroll in the school without a high school diploma. Without graduating, he moved to Chicago to pursue his architecture career and was eventually positioned with Adler & Sullivan architects.
In 1894, FLW opened his own architectural firm in Oak Park and mainly designed homes for his neighbors. It was there that he developed his famous prairie style home. During his career he also created public buildings, including the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, Japan which he worked on from 1915 to 1920. He created additional buildings in California, Wisconsin, and Arizona through his career. Other major architectural projects include: Taliesin, Taliesin II, and Taliesin III, Spring Green, WI, 1911-25; Fallingwater (Kaufmann House), Bear Run, PA, 1935; Taliesin West, Paradise Valley, AZ, 1938; and Dallas Theatre Centre, Dallas, TX, 1955.
In June 1943, Frank Lloyd Wright was asked to design a new space to house Solomon R. Guggenheim's Museum of Non-Objective Painting. Despite being reluctant to build in New York City, FLW agreed to design the museum. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (SRGM) is one of FLW's most famous and controversial building projects. It was a project in modernist architecture that included a spiral motif, FLW's interpretation of a Mesopotamian ziggurat. The SRGM was opened to the public on October 21, 1959. FLW died shortly before the museum's opening on April 9, 1959.
Bibliography
Scope and Content Note
The Collection on Frank Lloyd Wright (FLW) covers the years 1938-2005 (bulk 1953-1993) and documents FLW's life and work, particularly as they relate to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (SRGM). This collection was complied by SRGM staff from 1953 to 2002 and consists largely of secondary materials. The collection includes: press releases; magazine articles; newsletters; newspaper clippings; photographs; project plans; correspondence; invitations; brochures; postcards; and publications. The collection mainly consists of newspaper clippings and magazine articles relating to Frank Lloyd Wright and SRGM. The collection is arranged in three series: Series 1. Biographical and Background; Series 2. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Building; and Series 3. Other Architectural Projects. Series 1. Biographical and Background contains information about Frank Lloyd Wright's life and background on his professional career. Series 2. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Building contains documentation on the SRGM building designed by FLW. Series 3. Other Architectural Projects includes information on architectural projects designed by FLW other than the SRGM project.
Series Descriptions
Folder List
| Box | Folder | Title | Date | ||||||||||
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| 100506 | Announcement: the Decorative Designs of Frank Lloyd Wright at the National Collection of Fine Arts | 1977 | |||||||||||
| Bibliographies | |||||||||||||
| 100506 | General | undated | |||||||||||
| Films on Frank Lloyd Wright | undated | ||||||||||||
| 100506 | Biography by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum | 1959 | |||||||||||
| Brochures | |||||||||||||
| 100506 | Autobiography: Frank Lloyd Wright: Order Form | undated | |||||||||||
| 100506 | Catalogue: Forty-Seven Frank Lloyd Wright: Ephemera for a Living Collection | 1980 | |||||||||||
| 100506 | Chapel of the Holy Cross: Designed by Marguerite Brunswig Staude, Pupil of Frank Lloyd Wright | undated | |||||||||||
| 100506 | Frank Lloyd Wright: Facets of Design | 1990 | |||||||||||
| 100506 | Frank Lloyd Wright Architect: Museum of Modern Art | 1994 | |||||||||||
| 100506 | Frank Lloyd Wright and Eric Mendelsohn | 1976 | |||||||||||
| 000522 | IX Mostra Di Architettura | 1976 | |||||||||||
| 100506 | The Future of Architecture: Order Form | undated | |||||||||||
| Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation | |||||||||||||
| 100506 | General | 1990-1991 | |||||||||||
| 100506 | Correspondence (2 folders) | 1977, 1985, 1991 | |||||||||||
| 100506 | The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright for the Benefit of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation | 1985 | |||||||||||
| 100506 | Endowment Fund | undated | |||||||||||
| 100506 | Exhibition and Sales for the Preservation of Taliesin | 1983 | |||||||||||
| Invitations | |||||||||||||
| 100506 | Art of This Century | 1942 | |||||||||||
| 100506 | The Decorative Designs | 1978 | |||||||||||
| 100506 | Frank Lloyd Wright: Art in Design | 1983 | |||||||||||
| 100506 | The Frank Lloyd Wright Collection of Oriental Paint Brushes | 1978 | |||||||||||
| 100506 | The Frank Lloyd Wright I Knew | 1986 | |||||||||||
| 100506 | Wright Again | 1980 | |||||||||||
| 100506 | Last Will and Testament of Frank Lloyd Wright | 1956 | |||||||||||
| 100506 | Newsletter: Wright Angles | 1976-1983 | |||||||||||
| Newspaper Clippings and Magazine Articles | |||||||||||||
| 100506, 691766 | General (43 folders) | undated, 1950-1996 | |||||||||||
| 691766 | "Form Givers" and "Four Great Makers" | 1961 | |||||||||||
| Obituaries: Frank Lloyd Wright | |||||||||||||
| 691766 | Foreign (2 folders) | 1959 | |||||||||||
| 691766 | United States (3 folders) | 1959 | |||||||||||
| 100506 | Photograph: Frank Lloyd Wright | undated | |||||||||||
| Press Releases | |||||||||||||
| 100506 | Decorative Designs of Frank Lloyd Wright to Go on View Next Spring at Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts | 1990 | |||||||||||
| 100506 | Lecturers on Giants of American Architecture | 1976 | |||||||||||
| 100506 | Statement by Harry F. Guggenheim on Death of Frank Lloyd Wright | 1959 | |||||||||||
| 100506 | Two Hundred and Fifty Original Drawings by Frank Lloyd Wright on View at the Museum of Modern Art | 1962 | |||||||||||
| 100506 | Program Description: Uncommon Places on Public Television | undated | |||||||||||
| Publications | |||||||||||||
| 100506 | "An Autobiography" by Frank Lloyd Wright | 1977 | |||||||||||
| 100506 | "Building Ideas" by Peter Wille | 1969 | |||||||||||
| 100506 | "The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright" Edited by Arthur Drexler | 1962 | |||||||||||
| 100506 | "Frank Lloyd Wright" by Charlotte Willard | 1972 | |||||||||||
| 100506 | "Frank Lloyd Wright" by Vincent Scully Jr. | 1960 | |||||||||||
| 100506 | "Frank Lloyd Wright: A Bibliography" Compiled by Kenneth and Jane Starosciak | 1973 | |||||||||||
| 100506 | "Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier" by Thomas Doremus | 1985 | |||||||||||
| 100506 | "Frank Lloyd Wright: Japanese Prints Exhibition" | 1962 | |||||||||||
| 100506 | "Frank Lloyd Wright: Quarterly " | 1996 | |||||||||||
| 100506 | "Frank Lloyd Wright: The Rebel Architect" by Corinne J. Naden | 1961 | |||||||||||
| 100506 | "Frank Lloyd Wright: Writings and Buildings" Selected by Edgar Kaufmann and Ben Raeburn | 1960 | |||||||||||
| 100506 | "How Should We Rebuild Our Cities?" Taken by The American Forum of the Air | 1944 | |||||||||||
| 100506 | "The Master Builders" by Peter Blake | 1960 | |||||||||||
| 100506 | "Our House" by Olgivanna Lloyd Wright | 1959 | |||||||||||
| 100506 | "Sixty Years of Living Architecture: The Work of Frank Lloyd Wright" | 1953 | |||||||||||
| 100506 | "A Testament" by Frank Lloyd Wright | 1957 | |||||||||||
| 100506 | "Who's Who In America" on Frank Lloyd Wright | undated | |||||||||||
| 100506 | Stamps: Frank Lloyd Wright | undated | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | Title | Date | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100506 | Bibliographies | undated | |||||||||||
| Brochures | |||||||||||||
| 100506 | A Concerned Community Opposed to the Planned Addition to the Guggenheim Museum | undated | |||||||||||
| 100506 | Cultural Bus Loop 1 | 1974 | |||||||||||
| 100506 | Floor Plan of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum | undated | |||||||||||
| 100506 | The Guggenheim Circle's Gala Benefit | 1994 | |||||||||||
| 100506 | Inside Modern Manhattan | circa 1987 | |||||||||||
| 100506 | Right Time Wright Place | undated | |||||||||||
| The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum | |||||||||||||
| 691766 | General: Building and Collection Information | undated | |||||||||||
| 100506 | Fifth Avenue and 88th Street | undated | |||||||||||
| 100506 | Cassette Tape: #356 Guggenheim Architectural Tour | undated | |||||||||||
| Chronologies | |||||||||||||
| 100506 | History of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum | undated | |||||||||||
| 100506 | By Dr. Louise Averill Svendsen, Curator | undated | |||||||||||
| 100506 | Correspondence: From Ward Jackson about Frank Lloyd Wright Plans of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum | 1991 | |||||||||||
| 100506 | Design Plans for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum | undated | |||||||||||
| Essays | |||||||||||||
| 100506 | "Concerning the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum" by Frank Lloyd Wright | 1952 | |||||||||||
| 100506 | "Music and its Place in the Museum of Non-Objective Painting" by Frank Lloyd Wright | 1977 | |||||||||||
| 100506 | "Das Solomon R. Guggenheim Memorial Museum" by Frank Lloyd Wright | 1952 | |||||||||||
| 100506 | Index of Exhibit | undated | |||||||||||
| Invitations | |||||||||||||
| 100506 | Media Preview | 1992 | |||||||||||
| 100506 | Press Preview Prior to Opening of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum | 1991 | |||||||||||
| 100506, 773517, 691320 | Newspaper Clippings and Magazine Articles (55 folders) | undated, 1945-1996 | |||||||||||
| Photographs | |||||||||||||
| 691320 | Exterior Views of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum | undated, 1959 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | Frank Lloyd Wright, Hilla Rebay, and Solomon R. Guggenheim during Unveiling of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Model | 1945 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | Frank Lloyd Wrights Last Visit to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Taken by William Short | 1958 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | Frank Lloyd Wright's Rendering of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum at Night, 1949 by David Heald (photographic reproduction) | undated | |||||||||||
| 691320 | Kasimir Malevich Exhibit at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum | 1974 | |||||||||||
| 691320, 000523 | Models, Floor Plans, and Drawings of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (10 folders) | undated, 1945 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | Museum Rendering | 1957 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | Museum Site (2 folders) | undated, 1951, 1954 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | Restoration Exterior View | 1992 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | Seal at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum | undated | |||||||||||
| 691320 | "Sixty Years of Living Architecture:" Exhibiting Usonian House at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum | 1953 | |||||||||||
| Press Releases | |||||||||||||
| 691320 | Advanced Lighting Concepts Employed at Guggenheim Museum | undated | |||||||||||
| 691320 | Construction of Three and One-Half Story Annex | 1964 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | Construction of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum to Begin | 1956 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | Exhibition Documenting Frank Lloyd Wright's Designs for the Building | 1994 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | Fortieth Anniversary | 1999 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | Guggenheim International Award (2 folders) | 1956, 1957 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | Guggenheim Museum Announces Plans for Expansion | 1985 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | Guggenheim Museum Announces Revised Expansion Plans | 1987 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | Guggenheim Museum Projects by Hans Hollein and Frank Gehry | 1992 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | History of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum | 1987 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | Landmarks Preservation Commission Designates Guggenheim Museum | 1990 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | Museum Cafeteria | 1964 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | Museum Restoration and Expansion | 1991 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | New Restaurant and Bookstore | 1974 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | Opening of Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum | 1959 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | Proposed Addition to Guggenheim Museum | 1963 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | Statement by Frank Lloyd Wright | undated | |||||||||||
| 691320 | Usonian House: Sixty Years of Living Architecture Exhibition | 1953 | |||||||||||
| Publications | |||||||||||||
| 691320 | "A Frank Lloyd Wright Drawing for the Guggenheim Museum" by E.J. Johnson | undated | |||||||||||
| 691320 | "American Buildings and their Architects" by William Jordy | 1992 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | "An Experiment in the Third Dimension" by Frank Lloyd Wright | 1958 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | "The Architect's Original Statements on His Concept of the Guggenheim Museum" | 1960 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | "Edifice" by Marion Wolf | 1974 | |||||||||||
| 000522 | "The Guggenheim Museum Commemorative Magazine" | 1992 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | "The Guggenheim Correspondence": Order Form | 1986 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | "The Guggenheim Museum: Anatomy of an Organic Architecture" by John Vinci | undated | |||||||||||
| 691320 | "The Guggenheim Revisited" by Charles W. Millard | 1966 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | "The Guggenheims and the American Dream" by Edwin P. Hoyt | 1967 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | "Hilla Rebay In Search of the Spirit in Art" by Joan M. Lukach | 1983 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | "History of the Collection" | undated | |||||||||||
| 691320 | "History of the Museum of Non-Objective Painting" | undated | |||||||||||
| 691320 | "How Vital Are Museums?" ed. by Michael Peppiatt | 1990 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | "The Lighting of a Great Museum" by I.D. Robbins | 1960 | |||||||||||
| "Looking at the Guggenheim" and "How to Look at the Guggenheim" by Deborah Quilter | 1993 | ||||||||||||
| 691320 | "New American Art Museums" by Helen Searing | 1982 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | "New Architecture in the World" by Udo Kultermann | 1965 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | "Seed Money: The Guggenheim Story" by Milton Lomask | 1964 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | "The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum" | 1960 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | "The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum" | undated | |||||||||||
| 691320 | "The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum: Frank Lloyd Wright" | 1975 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | Talk Written by W.H. Short | undated | |||||||||||
| 691320 | Slides: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum | undated | |||||||||||
| 691320 | Stamps: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (2 folders) | undated, 2005 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | Stella Pictures Documentary Information | 1992 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | Transcription of an Acoustic Guide about the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum | undated | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | Title | Date | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 691320 | Announcement: A Rare Opportunity to Purchase a Usonian House | 1979 | |||||||||||
| Brochures | |||||||||||||
| 691320 | Crimson Beach | undated | |||||||||||
| 691320 | Exhibition of Works by Frank Lloyd Wright | 1981 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | Fallingwater Tours | 1969 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater | 1969 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | Various Sites | undated | |||||||||||
| 691320 | The Work of Frank Lloyd Wright: Midland Art Association | 1959 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | Correspondence: Taliesin | 1957 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | Exhibitions: Usonian House | undated | |||||||||||
| Invitations | |||||||||||||
| 691320 | Invitation to Wuppertal | 1966 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | Arizona State College Preview of the Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright | 1966 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | Frank Lloyd Wright Windows from the Darwin D. Martin House, Buffalo, N.Y. | 1970 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | Windows by Frank Lloyd Wright | 1969 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | Museum Assessment Program: Fallingwater | 1984 | |||||||||||
| 691320, 691766 | Newspaper Clippings and Magazine Articles (29 folders) | undated, 1953-1992 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | Postcard: Taliesin West | 1971 | |||||||||||
| Photographs | |||||||||||||
| 691320 | General | undated | |||||||||||
| 691320 | Francis Little House | undated | |||||||||||
| 691320 | Imperial Hotel | undated | |||||||||||
| 691320 | S.C. Johnson Administration Building | 1938 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | Melvyn Maxwell Smith House | 1948 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | Unitarian Church | 1947 | |||||||||||
| Press Releases | |||||||||||||
| 691320 | The Decorative Designs of Frank Lloyd Wright | 1979 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | Frank Lloyd Wright at the Renwick Gallery | 1977, 1986 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | Frank Lloyd Wright Furniture and Designs Featured at the Grey Art Gallery | 1978 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | Japanese Wood Blocks from Frank Lloyd Wright Collection | 1970 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | Living Room Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and Exhibition Projects of Wright Material to Open in the Metropolitan Museum's American Wing | 1982 | |||||||||||
| Publications | |||||||||||||
| 691320 | "The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright" by William Allin Storrer | 2002 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | "The Decorative Designs of Frank Lloyd Wright" by David A. Hanks | 1978 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | "The Encyclopedia of World Art" on Frank Lloyd Wright | undated | |||||||||||
| 691320 | "Frank Lloyd Wright Architecture and Nature" by Donald Hoffmann | 1996 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | "The Frank Lloyd Wright Collection" by Richard Davies | undated | |||||||||||
| 691320 | "Frank Lloyd Wright: The Library from the Francis W. Little House" | 1978 | |||||||||||
| 000522 | "Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium" | 1964 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | "Guide to Chicago and Midwestern Architecture" | 1963 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | "Many Masks A Life of Frank Lloyd Wright" by Brendan Gill | 1998 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | "The Natural House" by Frank Lloyd Wright | 1954 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | "Orion Book News on the Works of Frank Lloyd Wright": Announcement of Publication | 1978 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | "Work of Frank Lloyd Wright" | 1959 | |||||||||||
| 691320 | "Years With Frank Lloyd Wright Apprentice to Genius" by Edgar Tafel | 1985 | |||||||||||