Elizabeth Gordon and Frank Lloyd Wright
Posted: Wed May 10, 2017 4:54 pm
Fascinating. It may just be the pot, but I have to applaud her auto-dealer ploy as a win-win solution to a personal problem.
It appears that she left her Wisconsin job for New York just before the Fellowship was established. Where was she located in Wisconsin ? Would she have heard of Wright that early ?
The reactionary screed which opens the piece is explained further on by what preceded that outburst: Mr Wright being remarkably ungracious to his young postwar followers. If a leader doesn't have followers, is he or she really a leader -- one wants to ask. Whether or not "imitation is flattery" is beside the point, as I see it; it is illogical to decry the effects of one's influence on others while claiming that the nation needs better architecture and that one has the winning model.
SDR