The Guggenheim celebrates 50 with a Frank Lloyd Wright show
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The Guggenheim Celebrates 50
Frank Lloyd Wright.
Photo © The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation/William Short
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The Guggenheim Celebrates 50
A model of the Herbert Jacobs House by Situ Studio is suspended in a gallery of residential work.
Photo © David Heald
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The Guggenheim Celebrates 50
A perspective drawing for the Cloverleaf Quadruple Housing project.
Photo © 2009 The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
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The Guggenheim Celebrates 50
In The Masterpiece, art viewing is more cocktail party than contemplation.
Photo © 2009 The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
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The Guggenheim Celebrates 50
One of Wright’s studies for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum shows its familiar form with a car parked in the present-day museum store. Wright died six months prior to the Guggenheim’s October 21, 1959, opening.
Photo © 2009 The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
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The Guggenheim Celebrates 50
At the entrance to the exhibition, a theater curtain from Taliesin III is a surprisingly three-dimensional patchwork of thread and fabric squares that mimic the Wisconsin countryside.
Photo © David Heald