Taliesin Through the Lens of Pedro Guerrero

Taliesin Through the Lens of Pedro Guerrero

Frank Lloyd Wright in his bedroom study at Taliesin. All photographs Copyright © Pedro E. Guerrero. Pedro E. Guerrero retains exclusive copyright ownership of the images in this slide show. Images may not be downloaded, copied, or reproduced in any way without the photographer's express written permission.

Wright’s bedroom study, complete with Japanese prints, triangles, and T-squares. All photographs Copyright © Pedro E. Guerrero

Wright was an early riser, and often retired to his daybed to rest after lunch. All photographs Copyright © Pedro E. Guerrero.

Wright’s Romeo and Juliet Windmill, which he designed for his aunts, Jane and Nell Lloyd Jones, in 1897. His bedroom study overlooked the windmill a quarter mile away. All photographs Copyright © Pedro E. Guerrero.

Frank Lloyd Wright and Olgivanna Lloyd Wright walking their dog, Twip. The Romeo and Juliet Windmill is in the background. All photographs Copyright © Pedro E. Guerrero.

Wright and weekend guests enjoy a picnic in 1940. Many of these events took place in the apple orchard; some combined lunch with a plunge in the Wisconsin River nearby. All photographs Copyright © Pedro E. Guerrero.

Taliesin, with cattle in the foreground. In his autobiography Wright described how cows virtually always enhance a landscape: “Why is any cow, red, black, or white, always in just the right place for a picture in any landscape? Like a cypress tree in Italy, she is never wrongly placed. Her outlines quiet down so well whatever contours surround her. A group of her in the landscape is enchantment.” All photographs Copyright © Pedro E. Guerrero.

Wright reviews some drawings by apprentice Allen Davison. The child by his side is Davison’s son Tal. All photographs Copyright © Pedro E. Guerrero.

In Wright’s study sits a model of the San Francisco Call Building, built for a MoMA show to be held in 1940. All photographs © Pedro E. Guerrero.

This image greeted visitors as they entered an exhibition pavilion in New York City in 1953. Wright cropped the photo at the level of the drafting board, explaining
that he wanted the image to say, “I am an architect—what’ll you have?” All photographs Copyright © Pedro E. Guerrero.

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