Frank Lloyd Wright
Samuel Johnson Woolf American
Not on view
Woolf executed this shoulder-length portrait of esteemed American architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) from life. It apparently it is the only one known of him, aside from many photographs. Wright is attired in sketchily-rendered jacket and tie. His own signature appears at lower center as Woolf asked his sitters to sign their portraits as evidence of authenticity. The portrait was published on January 17, 1932 in Woolf’s article in the New York Times Magazine, “A Pioneer in Architecture Surveys It—Frank Lloyd Wright Tells What He Thinks is Wrong with Our Skyscrapers and Calls for More Expression.”
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