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Wrightiana Collection

A work made of printed papers, correspondence, black and white photographic prints, architectural reprographic prints, color photomechanical prints, postcards, audio media, postage stamps, and photocopies..

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  • A work made of printed papers, correspondence, black and white photographic prints, architectural reprographic prints, color photomechanical prints, postcards, audio media, postage stamps, and photocopies..

Date:

c.1897-2017 (bulk 1949-1969)

Artist:

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)
Adler and Sullivan

About this artwork

One of the founders of the Prairie School of architecture, and renowned for his prodigous contributions to American architectural philosophy, teaching, and practice, Frank Lloyd Wright began his career in the Chicago office of [Dankmar] Adler and [Louis H.] Sullivan in the early 1880s. Wright established his own firm in 1893 and continued to practice until his death in 1959. In addition to his design work for buildings, furniture, decorative and graphic arts, Wright also wrote extensively on his architectural ideas. Amassed from various sources, this collection includes booklets, pamphlets, brochures, letters, transcripts of lectures, published articles, and photographs of and/or about Frank Lloyd Wright, his design projects, exhibitions, honors, lectures, writings, Taliesin East, and Taliesin West.

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Status

Currently Off View

Department

AIC Archives

Artist

Frank Lloyd Wright (Architect)

Title

Wrightiana Collection

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

Made 1897–2017

Medium

Printed papers, correspondence, black and white photographic prints, architectural reprographic prints, color photomechanical prints, postcards, audio media, postage stamps, and photocopies.

Dimensions

5 oversize portfolios, and flatfile materials: H.: 182.9 cm (72 in.)

Credit Line

Gift from various sources, including: Frank Lloyd Wright, John Lloyd Wright, Judith Bromley, Bruce Goff, Leslie K. Haines, Wilbert Hasbrouck, Carolyn Howlett, William McNeal, Jr., John Weber, John Zukowsky and other unidentified sources.

Reference Number

2001.3

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