 |  | TWO-DIMENSIONAL PIECES
DECORATIVE ARTS
SCULPTURE
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT DESIGNED FURNITURE |
TWO-DIMENSIONAL PIECES:
Title: El Sueno; Executed: 1936
Artist: Diego Rivera (1886-1957); Nationality: Mexican
Medium: Gouache on Linen; Dimensions: 25 inches x 49 inches
|  | Title: Profile of Man Wearing Hat, Executed: c. 1930-40
Artist: Diego Rivera (1886-1957); Nationality: Mexican
Medium: Conte Crayon on Rice Paper, Dimensions: 18 inches x 12.75 inches
This drawing previously hung in the Frank Lloyd Wright designed Kaufmann Office in Pittsburgh, PA.
|  | Diego Rivera fused the innovations of European modernism with the indigenous traditions of Mexico’s pre-Columbian past and the art of its Native American peoples. Rivera is most noted for his monumental murals and his controversial political views. His work brought Mexican art to the forefront of 20th-century modernism.
| Title: Excursion (Portrait of E. J. Kaufmann); Executed: 1929
Artist: Victor Hammer (1882-1967), Nationality: Austrian
Medium: Egg Tempera and Oil; Dimensions: 45.5 inches x 37.25 inches
| | Victor Hammer is most recognized for his portraits. He ascribes many of the characteristics of his work to his childhood impressions of Vienna, where he grew up. From 1922 until 1932, Hammer lived in Florence, where painted and hand-printed books. In 1930, Edgar Kaufmann, jr. moved to Florence to apprentice with Hammer. His mother, Liliane, met Hammer a year earlier in London and commissioned the portrait of her husband. Hammer eventually settled in New York where he was a professor at Wells College.
| Title: Black Bellied Darter, Executed: 1836, Dimensions: 39.5 inches x 27 inches
|  | Title: Fish Crows, Executed: 1832, Dimensions: 40 inches x 27.5 inches
|  | Title: Raven, Executed: 1831, Dimensions: 39.5 inches x 26.65 inches
|  | Title: Marsh Hawk, Executed: 1837, Dimensions: 39.5 inches x 27 inches
|  | Artist: John J. Audubon (1785-1851), Nationality: American
Medium: Hand-Colored Etching, Engraving, and Aquatint
Audubon is arguably American’s most famous painter of wildlife. Lured by frontier life, Audubon explored the fields, woods and swamplands to record American wildlife. Using New Orleans as a base, he began to paint the birds of America in 1820 with the intention of printing them.
These engraving are plates from Audubon’s series of 435 hand-colored aquatints entitled Birds of America. The four-volume, double elephant folio was engraved on copper and hand colored in London by Robert Havell Jr. from Audubon’s original watercolors. These engravings were located in the Kaufmann’s first cottage at the Bear Run site, and then moved into Fallingwater once construction was completed.
| These 6 Japanese woodblock prints were given to Kaufmann family personally by Frank Lloyd Wright .
| Title: Night Snow, Kambara (Kambara yoro no yuki), Executed 1834
Artist: Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858), Nationality: Japanese
Medium: Woodblock Print on Rice Paper, Dimensions: 21 inches x 25 inches,
On the back of the original mat is the inscription, "To the Sr. and his wife; Christmas 1935, Frank Lloyd Wright".
This print is from Hiroshige’s series, 53 Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido Gojusam – sugi no uchi). This is station 16. Tokaido refers to the roadway, which follows the eastern coastal route from Edo (Tokyo), the capital of Japan since 1603, to Kyoto, the traditional capital. The print is marked by tembokashi printing, a technique by which the sky is dark above and becomes gradually light descending toward the horizon.
|  | Title: Changing Porters and Horses at Fujieda (Fujieda jimba tsugitate), Executed 1834, Artist: Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858), Nationality: Japanese
Medium: Woodblock Print on Rice Paper, Dimensions: 21 inches x 25 inches,
On the back of the original mat is the inscription, "To the ‘Jr.’ Christmas 1935 from Frank Lloyd Wright".
This print is from his series, 53 Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido Gojusam – sugi no uchi). This is station 23. Hiroshige depicts common activities of travelers and laborers at the station of Fujieda, which is 4 miles from Okabe.
|  | Title: Street Scene on the Ginza-Yedo, Executed 1856-68,
Artist: Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858), Nationality: Japanese
Medium: Woodblock Print on Rice Paper, Dimensions: 25 inches x 20 inches
On the back of the original mat is the inscription, "to Junior: at Taliesin Aug 14 – 51 Hiroshige: struck in Yedo about one hundred years ago. Street scene on the Ginza-Yedo now Tokyo; Fine impression 1st Edition. FLW".
|  | Title: Aoi Slope Lying Outside Toranomon Gate (Toranomon soto Aoizaka),
Executed 1857,
Artist: Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858), Nationality: Japanese
Medium: Woodblock Print on Rice Paper, Dimensions: 29 inches x 14.75 inches
This print is from the series, One Hundred famous Views of Edo, View 113. The print features the spillway on Aoi Slope, near the Toranomon Gate of the shogun’s Edo castle.
|  | Title: Iris Garden at Horikiri (Horikiri No Hanashobu), Executed 1857
Artist: Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858), Nationality: Japanese
Medium: Woodblock Print on Rice Paper, Dimensions: 26.5 inches x 16 inches
This print is from the series, One Hundred famous Views of Edo, View 64. This print illustrates the hanashobu iris cultivated in the village of Horikiri less than a mile from the mouth of the Ayase River.
|  | Title: Pontoon Bridge at Sano (Kozuke Sano funabashi no kozu), Executed: c. 1820
Artist: Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), Nationality: Japanese
Medium: Woodblock Print on Rice Paper, Dimensions: 18.5 inches x 13.75 inches
This print is from a series of eleven titled Rare Views of Famous Bridges in All the Provences. The pontoon bridge at Sano (now the city of Takasaki) crosses the Tone, a major river in Japan. This bridge is well known in Japanese history, being mentioned in the Manyoshu, Anthology of Ten Thousand Leaves.
|  | Title: The Artist and his Model (Le Peintre et son Modele), Executed: 1963
Artist: Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Nationality: Spanish
Medium: Aquatint, Drypoint, Etching, Dimensions: 25 inches x 23.5 inches
|  | Title: The Smoker (Fumeur), Executed 1964
Artist: Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Nationality: Spanish
Medium: Aquatint, Dimensions: 22 inches x 16.25 inches
The Smoker is one is a series of 13 heads which Picasso executed in aquatint in 1964. Though this print in monochromatic, many in the series are quit colorful.
|  | Working from his villa, Notre Dame de Vie, in the south of France, Picasso produced a huge body of work in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Picasso’s significance in the history of art is vast. His most monumental achievement was the founding of the cubist style, the aesthetic of which has in some measure had impact upon nearly every major artists and movement since 1907.
| Title: Landscape: Jalapa, Mexico, Executed: 1877
Artist: Jose Maria Velasco (1840-1912), Nationality: Mexican
Medium: Oil on Canvas, Dimensions: 42.75 inches x 58.75 inches
|  | Born in Tematzalcingo, Mexico to a family of weavers, Velasco rejected the family craft and took up painting. He entered the Academia de San Carlos in 1958 and studied landscape painting with the Italian, Eugenio Landesio. Ten years later he was named Professor of Perspective in the Academia. In 1874, he settled in Guadalupe.
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