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Show SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, MARRIOTT LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF UTAH TAYLOR WOOLLEY COLLECTION, UTAH STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY TAYLOR A. WOOLLEY Taylor Woolley (left) and his future architectural partner Cliff Evans at Taliesin c.1911. They are standing outside the workroom wing of Frank Lloyd Wright’s unfinished Taliesin near Spring Green Wisconsin preparing to paint a portion of the new construction. publisher to produce a portfolio of his work offered an opportunity for professional advancement. Wright decided to sell his practice and go to Europe with Mamah Borthwick Cheney where he would set to work on the portfolio. In what appeared to be a last minute decision Wright invited his oldest son Lloyd and Taylor Woolley to go to Italy to help produce the drawings that would become the lithographic plates for a two volume publication known as the Wasmuth Portfolio. Woolley and Lloyd went to Italy in 1910 and helped Wright set up a studio in the The dining room (above) of Taliesin, Spring Green, Wisconsin, c. 1911. The dining room and adjacent living room at Taliesin were destroyed in a fire set by a servant in August of 1914. Mamah Cheney, and her two children, and four others were murdered at the time the fire was set by the same servant. 151 |
