#frank lloyd wright
Frank Lloyd Wright, 1867 - 1959
A famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright would design over 500 buildings in his lifetime. He was a leader in the Prairie School movement of architecture, which advocated for the use of smooth, horizontal lines in structures. You can see this in action in his buildings Unity Temple and his home and studio, both located in Oak Park, IL.
(Photos: Library of Congress)
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Wouldn’t you like to meet the interesting woman who sought good red wine wherever she went and hobnobbed with artists (and at least one princess) whenever she could get away from restoring her mid-century Frank Lloyd Wright home? Everyone has a chance to sample the late Ellen Johnson’s tasteful life simply by visiting the Weltzheimer/Johnson House in Oberlin, OH, some first-Sunday-of-the-month afternoon between April and November.
The docents at the W/J House are newly prepared to talk about Ms. Johnson the person as a result of the recent visit to the house by her beloved niece and husband, Kris and Greg Moylan. Conversation with the couple was packed with their memories of Ellen’s visits to her family home in Warren, PA for holidays, their previous times as guests in her Oberlin home, and annual summer stays at a lakeshore cottage Ellen rented.
Who knew that Ellen had installed a two-person sauna in her home (now the room where visitors remove their shoes)? The Moylans knew. And they knew that the same room also served as Ellen’s wine “cellar.” Ellen would travel far and wide in her roomy Chrysler to obtain interesting wines back in the days when liquor was not sold in Oberlin.
Kris remembers that Ellen usually counted on others to supply the food while she supplied the wine and venue. “Once she had a large roast and she asked me – a 10-year-old – how she should cook it,” Kris recalled.
Ellen had three sisters and a brother, but only two nieces and one nephew. She was a generous and attentive aunt, providing gifts and amusements that seemed to be tailored exactly to the recipient. And maybe it was even Ellen’s penchant for ice cream that tipped the Moylan’s decision to run a Dairy Queen franchise for years?
The Moylans displayed excellent recall of the original art pieces that Ellen had displayed in her Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home (many of which now belong to the Allen Memorial Art Museum) as well as stories about the artists who produced the eclectic items. And in one more surprising personal story, Greg said that Ellen also enjoyed reading palms – she read his before his marriage to Kris. Ellen’s palm-reading talent had been revealed to the world in 1972 in a New York Times story when she attended a party hosted by artist Robert Rauschenberg and studied the hand of a famous guest, Princess Christina of Sweden.
Hope we will see you soon at 534 Morgan St., Oberlin. For detail, see: http://www2.oberlin.edu/amam/flwright.html
Post by Janice Patterson (Weltzheimer/Johnson house docent)
Our next Frank Lloyd Wright open house is this Sunday, September 4, from 12pm until 5pm. Presentations on the hour given by staff and dedicated Weltzheimer/Johnson House volunteers. We discuss the architecture of the home, the history of the house and its several owners, and are happy to answer (as best as we can!) any questions you might have.
Located at 534 Morgan Street in Oberlin, Ohio, near Westwood Cemetery.
Photo: Dirk Bakker
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Frank Lloyd Wright, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, USA, 1956–1959
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Pier Paolo Pasolini, Il Vangelo secondo Matteo, 1964 © Cineteca di Bologna | Angelo Novi
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Hagley Library’s John Gordon Rideout papers (Accession 2701) documents the life and career of noted industrial designer John Gordon “Jack” Rideout (1898-1951).
Rideout began his career in sales, moved into advertising, and eventually opened industrial design firms in Toledo and then Cleveland, Ohio. In 1944, Rideout became one of the fifteen co-founders of the Society of Industrial Designers.
The collection includes manuscripts, graphic materials, publications, and objects documenting his career and personal life. An accompanying digital collection in our Digital Archive includes images like this ca. 1932 image of family friends Buffy and Molly. The images in this digital collection come from an album of negatives in a collection of Rideout’s papers.
Some of the images, likely dating to the early 1930s, depict Frank Lloyd Wright and his Spring Green, Wisconsin, estate, Taliesin. Others include portraits and candid images of family and friends; the fishing town of Leland, Michigan; an Easter church service; and a Gulf Co. service station. To view this collection online now, click here.
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Children painting during an art class at Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, 1930. In the background is the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Hollyhock House.
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Photographed by Yousuf Karsh, 1945.
Colored by Lombardie Colorings.
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La Crescenta, 2826 Alta Terrace, La Crescenta, California,
By Eric Lloyd Wright, son of architect Frank Lloyd Wright Jr. and grandson of the legendary Frank Lloyd Wright.
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The Ryerson & Burnham Libraries and the family of John Garrett Thorpe are pleased to announce the donation to the Ryerson & Burnham Archives of the John Garrett Thorpe & Associates Collection.
John Garrett Thorpe (1944–2016) was an architect and distinguished historic preservation advocate who, along with his architectural firm, provided restoration and preservation services on 55 buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright and 68 projects by other Prairie School architects. One of the authors for The Plan for Restoration and Adaptive Use of the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio, Thorpe acted to secure its purchase by the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust and to implement a 13-year restoration project on the building. The John Garrett Thorpe & Associates Collection in the Ryerson & Burnham Archives consists of thousands of architectural drawings as well as project files on 33 projects designed by Wright and 27 projects by other Prairie School architects.
Once the collection has been processed by our archives staff, these materials will be available for use in the reading room of the Ryerson & Burnham Libraries, along with the Ryerson & Burnham Archives’ other rich holdings on Sullivan, Wright, the Prairie School, and Organic Architecture.
Here you see elevations from the Thorpe Collection for the Hemingway Birthplace Home and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Arthur Heurtley House, both located in Oak Park, Illinois.
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