“A Long-Awaited Tribute: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Usonian House and Pavilion”

Wednesday, October 10, 3:00 p.m.


Frank Lloyd Wright and David Henken reviewing architectural 

drawings for the pavilion, 1953. Photo: © Pedro E. Guerrero
Image via Guggenheim Museum

Join Francine Snyder, Director of the Library and Archives at the
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, for a tour of the Sackler Center for Arts
Education’s “long-awaited” exhibition of materials documenting Frank Lloyd
Wright’s first buildings in New York City, including the 1953 exhibition
pavilion and model Usonian home erected where the Guggenheim Museum now
stands. “While many of Frank Lloyd Wright's buildings are iconic,” Snyder
says, “the exhibition pavilion and accompanying Usonian house are not well
known. It's wonderful to be able to tell this story through materials from
the archives.”

The 10,000 square-foot, glass and fiberboard exhibition pavilion and
attached model Usonian house featured a traveling exhibition of Wright’s

 work and featured sixteen model buildings, photographs, floor plans, and
drawings. Visitors were invited at the time to enter the fully-furnished home through
the courtyard of the pavilion to experience the “distinctively American,
middle-class” furnishings and artwork, which included items designed by
Wright himself and mobiles constructed by Alexander Calder.

Web Site: www.guggenheim.org/ and www.guggenheim.org/usonian 

Location: Guggenheim Museum, Sackler Center, 1071 Fifth Ave, New York, NY 

RSVP is required. RSVP to archives@guggenheim.org  Limited to 25 participants.

Tour details sent upon confirmation of RSVP. Tour will be followed by the
option for participants to visit additional museum galleries on their own.

Submitted by Haley Richardson, ART Reporter