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Circle Sunday, April 27, 2008 on your calendar for a wonderful treat in Milwaukee. At 11:30am Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum will open for an invitation only brunch open to members of Frank Lloyd Wright® Wisconsin and Members of the Charles Allis/Villa Terrace Museums. Following the brunch will be time to view the current exhibition, Hollyhock house and Olive Hill: Frank Lloyd Wright and Edmund Teske.
Then at 1:30pm Jack Holzhueter, Wright historian and member of the Frank Lloyd Wright® Wisconsin Board, will present a public lecture on the exhibition. Cost for the 11:30am brunch including museum entry, exhibition and lecture is $35. This special event is a collaboration between Frank Lloyd Wright® Wisconsin and The Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum. The exhibition and lecture are also open to the public at 1pm with a museum entry fee of $5.
Spaces for the brunch are limited. For reservations, please call Sherri at the Frank Lloyd Wright® Wisconsin office, 608-287-0339 or visit
www.wrightinwisconsin.org.
The exhibition, Hollyhock House and Olive Hill, consists of preliminary sketches and drawings by Frank Lloyd Wright and photographs by Edmund Teske. Wright was commissioned by Aline Barnsdall about 1915 for an innovative performing Arts Center and private residences as part of a creative cluster of buildings to be situated atop a small hill overlooking Los Angeles. The project grew to include
"Hollyhock House;" a residence for Barnsdall and her family; "Residences A and B," a home for the theater director plus a guesthouse; commercial shops and artists’ studios. Not all projects were completed.
The photographs by Edmund Teske complement the Wright works and document the Olive Hill project. Teske loved Olive Hill and lived in Residence B as a caretaker from 1943 until its demolition in 1954. His documentation often includes an artistic semi-abstract approach in layering images. Hollyhock House and Olive Hill originated at the Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park in the City of Los Angeles, CA and was curated by Jeffery Herr.
The show will also include a complimentary mini-exhibition of
Louis Sullivan’s decorative Terra Cotta tiles. Frank Lloyd
Wright was employed under Louis Sullivan early on in his career.
Wright referred to Sullivan as his "Lieber Master" or "Beloved Master". Sullivan’s firm Adler & Sullivan was known for such buildings as the Stock Exchange Building and Schiller Building in Chicago, IL and the Guaranty building in Buffalo, NY among many others.
Hollyhock House and Olive Hill: Frank Lloyd Wright and Edmund Teske, is open from April 19-June 15, 2008 at the Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum. It is located at
2220 North Terrace Avenue in Milwaukee; hours are Wednesdays through Sundays from 1 to 5pm.
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The Villa Terrace exhibition is complemented by an exhibition at the Milwaukee Art Museum entitled A Revolutionary in Milwaukee: The Designs of George Mann Niedecken. Often noted for his work with Frank Lloyd Wright, this exciting retrospective illuminates Niedecken’s own story through the cutting edge styles that he brought to the interior designs of Milwaukee’s elite. This exhibition runs from April 17-July 20, 2008. The MAM is located at
700 North Art Museum Drive in Milwaukee, WI.
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visit the Milwaukee Art Museum Website
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