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Frank Lloyd Wright

National Portrait Gallery

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Artist
Arnold A. Newman, 3 Mar 1918 - 6 Jun 2006
Sitter
Frank Lloyd Wright, 8 Jun 1867 - 9 Apr 1959
Exhibition Label
An impresario of modern American design, Frank Lloyd Wright was a master builder who founded the Prairie School of architecture. His organic approach to design was exemplified by Fallingwater, the cantilevered Pennsylvania house he built in the mid-1930s, and by the custom-made "Usonian" homes he designed in that period to modernize domestic life: instead of dividing interior spaces into rooms with specific functions, Wright introduced larger "workspaces" with progressively more open areas. He also made use of such new building materials as concrete, glass bricks, and Pyrex tubing.
Based at his Taliesin and Taliesin West studios (in Wisconsin and Arizona, respectively) and surrounded by a fellowship of apprentice architects, Wright designed more than 1,000 projects, including the Johnson Wax headquarters, the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, and the Guggenheim Museum-perhaps the leading example of his fascination for the enveloping shape he called the "architecture of the within."
Credit Line
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
1947
Object number
NPG.91.89.1
Restrictions & Rights
Usage conditions apply
Copyright
© Arnold Newman
Type
Photograph
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image: 34 × 46.7 cm (13 3/8 × 18 3/8")
Sheet: 40.4 × 50.3 cm (15 7/8 × 19 13/16")
Mat: 63.5 × 81.3 cm (25 × 32")
Place
United States\Wisconsin
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Topic
Costume\Dress Accessory\Eyeglasses
Home Furnishings\Furniture\Table
Interior\Studio
Artist's Effects\Architectural drawing
Frank Lloyd Wright: Male
Frank Lloyd Wright: Literature\Writer
Frank Lloyd Wright: Education\Educator\Lecturer
Frank Lloyd Wright: Visual Arts\Architect
Portrait
Record ID
npg_NPG.91.89.1
Metadata Usage (text)
Usage conditions apply
GUID (Link to Original Record)
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm48c429210-0391-4c5f-9c0e-9c7ea03e52fe

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