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Frank lloyd wright unpacking the archive9/19/2023 ![]() ![]() “I don’t know who drew them, and they’re such naive drawings – and there’s no Frank Lloyd Wright signature,” he says. “So it’s a combination of people who would be new to Wright, not just Frank Lloyd Wright experts – because only two in the exhibit had prior relationships with Wright’s work.”Īmong the projects considered is the Guggenheim Museum in New York, including an early model and drawings – one showing a pink-marbled skin and another, cream-colored limestone. “In a certain sense, it organized itself through the findings of those researchers,” says Bergdoll, curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art, and Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. Instead, he chose to bring in 11 others to interpret the project of their choice. The archive’s two-dimensional items are stored now at Columbia three-dimensional ones, at MoMA.īut Bergdoll did not curate Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive alone. He’d already played a key role in assuring that the collection from the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation was transferred to The Museum of Modern Art and Columbia University in 2012. Then there’s the challenge of how to winnow it down to just 400 works for an exhibition to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Frank Lloyd Wright’s birth in 1867.īut Barry Bergdoll was up to the task. There’s the sheer size of the collection – 55,000 drawings, 300,000 sheets of correspondence, 125,000 photographs, 2,700 manuscripts – as well as models, films, building fragments, and other materials. It must have been akin to untying the Gordian knot: ![]()
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