Mark Hertzberg has a new post at Wright in Racine. This one on the exhibit “Hollyhock House and Olive Hill: Frank Lloyd Wright and Edmund Teske”, opening April 19 in Milwaukee at the Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum. The exhibit is showing at the Price Tower Arts Center through the end of March.
Mark is a photographer, so he is an appropriate commentator on the exhibit of Teske’s photographs (I saw the exhibit a year ago in Michigan, and we’ve established that I’m no photographer — though I did enjoy the exhibit, I suspect the artistry that went into the creation of the images was largely lost on me).
Some of Wright’s drawings for Hollyhock House and the larger, unbuilt arts complex are also part of the exhibit, and are just as interesting as you would expect.
The exhibit, while modest, is well-done, but Mark is a far better judge of these things, so go check out his post.
From the Price Tower website :
In 1919, Aline Barnsdall commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to assist with her plans for Olive Hill, her property in Hollywood that was to be a grand performing arts center. The scheme was never realized, yet Wright’s sketches and plans provide the only evidence of the patron’s ambitions vision. This exhibition presents more than two dozen drawings for the Olive Hill project, which includes the famed Hollyhock House, as well as two dozen photographs by Edmund Teske, a Chicago native who lived and worked on the Olive Hill property during the late 1940s. Teske’s ability to manipulate photographic printing to produce atmospheric images stretches the medium and helps to define both artist and architect