Wright Frank

Frank Lloyd Wright on "This Matter of Fellowship", Signed Typed Manuscript

Three page typed manuscript signed by Frank Lloyd Wright as "Frank Lloyd Wright". Undated however Circa 1933/1934, and believed to be written to Charles Edmons which appears as a handwritten note on the verso of the last page. Typed on rectos of three leaves, with the verso appearing as a printed copy. Accompanied by two flyers. 8.5" x 11". Fine condition.

Entitled,"This Matter of Fellowship" Frank Lloyd Wright expounds on his theory of what his Fellowship should strive for on both philosophical, practical, and social levels.

In part:

"…Sharing each as he can and to all a share according to his ability, laziness is a vice … joy in work here is the common ideal and the common desire because where work is not done with joy there can be nothing in it above discipline...

…Institution being safer, 'Institution' is the average standpoint of the average human being. But I believe that because this 'safety' is first is the reason why creative art lags behind in our society and why it can only come alive again as deeper experience is shared and shared alike whenever and wherever it has 'made good'. Only as the individual recognizes individuality as initiative creation is he independent enough to surrender to the ideal by way of Apprenticeship in Fellowship... "

The Taliesin Fellowship was an architectural colony where Wright trained hundreds of devoted apprentices, while using them as the de facto architectural practice where all of his late masterpieces - Fallingwater, Johnson Wax, the Guggenheim Museum - were born. A fascinating treatise from the mercurial genius on his controversial Taliesin Fellowship, then in its infancy.


“Love is the virtue of the Heart,

Sincerity is the virtue of the Mind,

Decision is the virtue of the Will,

Courage is the virtue of the Spirit.”

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