New Wright exhibition coming to SCJ

Posted on March 30, 2013 by Mark Hertzberg

The Frank Lloyd Wright At Home exhibition in Fortaleza Hall on the SC Johnson campus in Racine is expected to reopen the first weekend in May. The first year’s exhibit, about his Prairie-style work, was dismantled a few weeks ago. It had opened last June. The second phase of the exhibition is about his Usonian homes. It will be up for about 10 months until the changeover for a still-to-be determined third phase of the exhibition.

The photos below are of workers from the joint curators, SC Johnson and the Milwaukee Art Museum, and from Merchants Moving and Storage in Racine, taking down the Prairie-style artifacts. Many of the artifacts are on loan to SCJ under a unique 99-year loan from the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. I expect to preview the Usonian exhibition for you in a few weeks.

Hardy Tour: Two additional notes

Posted on March 1, 2013 by Mark Hertzberg

Reservations are limited to 90 people.

The photo credit for the historic photo was lopped off due to an electronic glitch. The photo was taken by Anne Sporer Ruetz, whose parents were the second owners of the house. She was five when they moved there in 1938, and photographed the house until they sold it in 1947.

Open House at the Hardy House on April 27!!!

Posted on March 1, 2013 by Mark Hertzberg

The first tours of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Thomas P. Hardy House in decades will be held Saturday April 27. The house, which is perched on a bluff above Lake Michigan in Racine, Wisconsin, has been undergoing significant restoration since Eugene Szymczak bought it in September (photos of the restoration are in two previous posts, below).

The tours benefit Frank Lloyd Wright Wisconsin (www.wrightinwisconsin.org), thanks to Szymczak’s generous offer to open his house to the organization for this fund-raiser (Note: I am a board member of the group). The cost is $100 for members, $140 for non-member guests. I will lead the tours, which last a half hour. I am the author and photographer of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hardy House (Pomegranate, 2006). The Racine Art Museum will be selling copies of the book and my Wright in Racine at the event.

Tours are for specific time slots between 9:30 and 2:30 p.m. Reservations are accepted by telephone only, at 608-287-0339. If you want to add to your Frank Lloyd Wright Racine experience, consider also making a reservation to see Wright’s SC Johnson Administration Building five blocks away, and visit the permanent Wright exhibition in Fortaleza Hall on the SC Johnson campus: http://www.scjohnson.com/en/company/visiting.aspx

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