Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Acquired by Columbia University and MoMA

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) was not enamored with New York City, a place he felt was overrun with both people (some distinguished) and buildings (most undistinguished). Sure, he took on the task of designing a building to house Solomon R. Guggenheim’s nascent Museum of Non-Objective Painting, but Wright was less than thrilled with the client’s preferred location. “I can think of several more desirable places in the world to build his great museum,” Wright wrote in a letter to architect Arthur Holden, “but we will have to try New York.”

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