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- DavidC
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Article: "What Frank Lloyd Wright tells us about late bloomers"
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- DRN
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Re: Article: "What Frank Lloyd Wright tells us about late bloomers"
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I can’t seem to open the article.
Was Wright a late bloomer? Many architects get to their best design selves in their 40’s.
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- DavidC
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Re: Article: "What Frank Lloyd Wright tells us about late bloomers"
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Perhaps, this link will work.
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- SDR
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"His son, then aged 19, hit him and knocked him to the ground." That's a new one for me.
". . . made of affordable blocks hewn from local rock." I beg your pardon ?
I enjoyed the article despite its occasional departures from correct chronology. It is always good to have the career encapsulated for fresh consumption. The bar chart is a useful novelty, too.
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- Roderick Grant
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Re: Article: "What Frank Lloyd Wright tells us about late bloomers"
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It is clear that FLW's career of accomplished, i.e. built, works took a nosedive in the 20s, but rough as it was, he accomplished some of his most extraordinary works on paper during that period which should not be ignored. The National Life Insurance Building alone, if built, would have advanced corporate design well ahead of Johnson Wax. I would call FLW a triple bloomer.
- Reidy
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One story about Lloyd is that he got into a fistfight with a contractor at Hollyhock House and that this is why his father replaced him with Schindler.
Noel Coward is another who went from young prodigy to middle-aged has-been to revered old master and lived to see it all. He didn't produce any first-rate new work after about 40, though.
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Some are recognized in their lifetime, others not until later. Wright lived long enough to see his eclipse . . . eclipsed ? Or at least overcome . . .
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- Roderick Grant
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Coward quip about the actor Keir Dullea: "Keir Dullea, gone tomorrow." More or less prophetic.
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- SDR
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keir_Dullea
Dullea seems to have done much more work onstage than would be widely recognized. He entered my awareness with "David and Lisa," an affecting drama, in 1962.
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- Roderick Grant
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"David and Lisa" was the first time I saw Kier also. I predicted a major Hollywood career for him which never happened. Most of his career, after D&L, "The Fox" and "2001: A Space Odyssey," has consisted of B movies plus minor roles on TV playing weirdos and villains. Coward was more prescient than I.
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