Cover Design for the Lecture Notes of "The Problems of Modern Architecture"

1927-1930

Frank Lloyd Wright

Associated Names
Frank Lloyd Wright

Artist, American, 1869 - 1959

The image depicts a design of rectangular and square shapes intersected by straight and vertical lines, forming a grid-like pattern. The shapes are filled with alternating colors, resembling stained glass windows or mosaic tiles. The composition evokes a well-organized garden or a city map filled with buildings. The left side of the image is largely blank, highlighting the complexity of the abstract structure on the right.
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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Lunn Gallery, Washington, DC); Mr. and Mr. Abdul Huda Farouki, McLean, Virginia; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1984; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1983

  • Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Smithsonian Institution, New York, 1983-1984

1986

  • American Masters: Works on Paper from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1986-1988, pp. 72-75, no. 44, repro

2007

  • Modernism: Designing a New World, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2007

Inscriptions

upper right in red colored pencil: PRINCETON LECTURE / ARCHITECTURE MAY 1930

Markings

embossed along center spine: FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT LECTURE

Wikidata ID

Q64570027

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