Design & Desire in the Twentieth Century

Beret Balestrieri Kohn writes in the Milwaukee Museum of Art’s blog “Under the Wings” about a recent donation to the institution’s archives of films from the personal collection of Joan Salzstein, the grandaughter of architect Dagmar Adler. The donated films features candid shots of Frank Lloyd Wright interacting with students and visitors at Taliesin his home in Wisconsin.

According to Kohn, “Wright worked for and studied under Adler, and his granddaughter Joan became a regular visitor to Wright’s home and farm at Taliesin in Spring Green, Wisconsin for many years. During those visits, she captured the atmosphere of daily life at Taliesin on film.”

Read the entire blog post and see more interesting stills.

Frank Lloyd Wright and Olgivanna Wright in the garden, late 1930s-early 1940s. Photo credit: Still from a film from the personal collection of Joan Salzstein. Milwaukee Art Museum, Institutional Archives.
Source:  http://milwaukeeartmuseum.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/color_flw_008.jpg?w=640

This news comes to us courtesy of both The Frank Lloyd Wright Newsblog and Architects and Artisans. The SC Johnson Company has opened the new SC Johnson Gallery in Racine, Wisconsin. This gallery is located in the new Foster + Partners-designed Fortaleza Hall. To commemorate the landmarkopening, SC Johnson and the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation in Scottsdale, Arizona have collaborated on a multi-media exhibit, At Home with Frank Lloyd Wright.

For more information on The SC Johnson Gallery and the Wright exhibit visit http://scjohnson.com/en/press-room/fact-sheets/05-27-2012/Frank-Lloyd-Wright-Prairie-Style.aspx.