Clerestory pan | Wright
Estimated value: 7000-9000 US$
Auction:
Modernist 20th Century
Sales date: 2004-06-06
Location:
Chicago
Lot number: 179
Design
Frank Lloyd WrightYear 1953
Architonic id
4103957
Clerestory panel from the New York Exhibition House
Stained and painted cypress
15.75"w x 45.75"h
This panel comes from the 1953 retrospective exhibition "Sixty Years of Living Architecture" held at the site of where the Guggenheim Museum in New York now stands. For this exhibition, Wright created an entire Usonian house, which featured panels that are reminiscent of his stained glass designs from the beginning of the century. Since the Usonian ideology emphasized utility, cut panels were used to subtly shade walkways in lieu of more expensive glass works. This panel is one of the ten original panels from the pavilion.
Literature:
Frank Lloyd Wright: Preserving an Architectural Heritage, Decorative Designs from The Domino's Pizza Collection, Hanks, pg. 111
Provenance: Private Collection, San Francisco
Stained and painted cypress
15.75"w x 45.75"h
This panel comes from the 1953 retrospective exhibition "Sixty Years of Living Architecture" held at the site of where the Guggenheim Museum in New York now stands. For this exhibition, Wright created an entire Usonian house, which featured panels that are reminiscent of his stained glass designs from the beginning of the century. Since the Usonian ideology emphasized utility, cut panels were used to subtly shade walkways in lieu of more expensive glass works. This panel is one of the ten original panels from the pavilion.
Literature:
Frank Lloyd Wright: Preserving an Architectural Heritage, Decorative Designs from The Domino's Pizza Collection, Hanks, pg. 111
Provenance: Private Collection, San Francisco
