Details
glass, gilt bronze
1314 x 5 x 434 in. (33.7 x 12.7 x 12 cm)
Provenance
Ted Stanley, New Canaan, Connecticut, circa 1999
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2018
Literature
Frank Lloyd Wright: Architectural Drawings and Decorative Art, exh. cat., Fischer Fine Art, London, 1985, p. 53 (for a related example)
B. Brooks Pfeiffer and Y. Futagawa, ed., Frank Lloyd Wright, Selected Houses 2: Taliesin, Tokyo, 1990, pp. 118-119, 124 (for a related example)
C. Lind, The Wright Style, New York, 1992, p. 9
D. Larkin and B. Brooks Pfeiffer, eds., Frank Lloyd Wright: The Masterworks, New York, 1993, pp. 44-47
T. A. Heinz, Frank Lloyd Wright: Glass Art, New York, 1994, p. 67, no. 0009
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The present wall light model was featured in houses such as the Dana House in Springfield, Illinois (1902), the Francis W. Little House in Peoria, Illinois (1903) as well as the William R. Heath House in Buffalo, New York (1903). The main body of the wall light is gilt bronze with corners that are friction-fitted, holding the iridescent green glass in place.

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