"Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward," a collaborative effort of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, was organized to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the completion of Wright's building in 1959, an event of heightened significance owing to Wright's sixteen-year struggle to build the building and his death at age ninety-one, six months prior to its opening. Over two hundred drawings, supplemented by models, wall-projected photographs, computer animations, and a few artifacts and period publications (lent primarily from the Archives of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation) were arranged along the ramps of the rotunda, in the High Gallery, and on two floors of the Gwathmey-Siegel––designed annex. The exhibition spanned Wright's entire career and was organized chronologically from bottom to top, an inversion of Wright's intended pattern of use that has become the norm at the Guggenheim....
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June 2010
