SAVING OUR TREASURES, FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT ORIGINAL DRAFT PERIOD PENCIL DRAWING OF ARIZONA DESERT HOME. MOST LIKELY A DRAFT DESIGN FROM ONE OF THE APPRENTICES. FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT WOULD DO THE PRELIMINARY DRAWING AND ASSIGN THE PROJECT TO HIS APPRENTICES, AFTER THE FINAL REVISIONS HE WOULD OK AND SIGN THE PROOF. ACTUAL ORIGINAL DESIGN NOT A REPRODUCTION. FROM THE PRIVATE COLLECTION OF LOCH CRANE. PROVENANCE, ESTATE OF LOCH CRANE TALIESIN APPRENTICE. THIS WAS PART OF THE WRIGHT EXPO IN SAN DIEGO. Several of them, including Vincent Bonini, Frederick Liebhardt, Loch Crane, Sim Bruce Richards and Bill Slatton, established their professional practices in San Diego. In addition to these focal studies, the work of Frank Lloyd Wright and his two sons Lloyd and John was presented. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Legacy in San Diego: the Taliesin Apprentices framed this remarkably rich portfolio of work with architectural drawings, photographs, and ephemera to demonstrate the power of Wright’s influence. The exhibition displayed, for the first time in San Diego, Frank Lloyd Wright’s unbuilt designs for the region. Curated by Keith York. For this exhibition provided by Ray and Ellen Merewether with additional support from Nick and Lamya Agelidis, Elizabeth Courtier – Willis Allen Real Estate, Ike Kligerman Barkley Architects P. John and Diane Kane, Luce et Studio, Margie Warner and John H. Donald and Jeannette Yeckel, Artworks San Diego, and. Institutional support provided by the City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture and the Members of the La Jolla Historical Society. Betty Edwards, Charles E. Young Research Library at UCLA, Loch Crane, Shannon Wehsener, the Bonini Family, Louise McWhorter, Darren Bradley, Elizabeth von Beck Archives, the Liebhardt Family, the Richards Family, Jonathan Schmock, and Private Collections for the loans and reproduction rights that made this exhibition possible.
