David K. Stone: Frank Lloyd Wright

Artist: David K. Stone
1922 - 2001
Nationality: American
Artwork Year: 1986
Image Size: 21 by 17.75 inches
Overall Size: 27 by 24 inches
Medium: Mixed Media on Masonite

If Frank Lloyd Wright was not the greatest architect in history -- as he once asserted under oath -- then he was, beyond doubt, the most distinguished American architect of his generation. He believed that architecture should not be purely imitative but should spring from native soil. A product of rural Wisconsin, he cherished the landscape of the Middle West, and invented what he called the "prairie style" of architecture, simple and authentic, with its furniture as an integral part of the house, its ample windows looking out onto, and blending with, the landscape and the garden. It is an architecture seen at its best in his Robey House in Chicago and "Falling Water" outside Pittsburgh. He confessed a mortal antipathy for the skyscraper -- an architecture "for angels and aviators." He said, "skyscrapers have no life of their own, no life to give and none to receive from their construction ... Utterly barbaric, the skyscraper is neither ethical, beautiful, nor permanent ... it is a commercial exploit." Lloyd Wright did not confine himself to private houses: among his famous buildings were the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo -- the only major building to survive the great earthquake of 1923; the Johnson Wax building in Racine, Wisconsin -- almost a miracle of light and air and building all harmonizing; and the Guggenheim Museum in New York, which contrasts dramatically from the neighboring Metropolitan Museum and Frick Gallery with their traditional classical style.

This painting was originally published on the Fleetwood® Commemorative Cover for the Shapers of America Collection produced throughout 1986 and 1987.

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