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Museum Collections
TWO-DIMENSIONAL PIECES
DECORATIVE ARTS
SCULPTURE
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT DESIGNED FURNITURE
The collections of the Fallingwater Museum are comprised of more than 950 works of art including prints, paintings, sculpture, furniture, ceramics, art glass, and miscellaneous household objects. Of particular significance in the collection are the 169 pieces of original walnut furniture, custom designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for Fallingwater. These pieces represent one of the most complete ensembles of Wright designed, site-specific furniture.
Over the course of their tenure, the Kaufmann family furnished Fallingwater with an eclectic range of objects. These objects underlined the family’s belief in the power of good design to enrich the quality of modern life, a belief shared by Frank Lloyd Wright. Through the Kaufmann department store and Edgar Kaufmann, jr.’s association with the Museum of Modern Art in New York, they promoted the work of modern designers from all over the world. The family’s influence helped bridged the gap between the commercial market and the design world.
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.
DECORATIVE ARTS
Title: Washington Irving Chair, Executed: Mid Nineteenth Century
Artist: Attributed to William Morris (1834-1896), Nationality: English
Medium: Oak, foam and cloth, Dimensions: 29.5 inches x 26 inches x 42 inches
This chair came from the Washington Irving’s house, Sunnyside. Washington Irving was born in New York City on April 3, 1783. He studied law while traveling through Europe and was received into the bar in 1806, although he never attended college. Irving never became a lawyer, his interest was writing. Two of Irving’s most beloved stories were The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle.
The chair is attributed to William Morris, the nineteenth century artist, writer, and craftsman. In 1861, Morris, along with others, founded Morris, Marshall, and Faulkner, one of the world’s first design firms. Their belief that good design should be essentially simple and available to all, regardless of social standing, as well as their concern for high quality workmanship, became important modern principles.
Title: Slipper Chair, Executed: c. 1935-40
Artist: Laszlo Gabor (1895-1944), Nationality: Hungarian
Medium: Teak, foam, and cloth, Dimensions: 26 inches x 26 inches x 19.5 inches
The Kaufmann family assisted a number of artists and designers in immigrating to the United States during World War II. The first of these was Hungarian born artist Laszlo Gabor, whom Edgar Kaufmann, jr. had met in Vienna. The family brought him to Pittsburgh in 1935 as the store’s art director. His designs for show windows and in-store displays frequently challenged conventional practice and, occasionally, notions of propriety.
Title: Reclining Chair, Executed: c. 1936
Artist: Bruno Mathsson (1907-1988), Nationality: Swedish
Medium: Laminated maple and cloth, Dimensions: 31 inches x 20 inches x 38 inches
In his designs, Bruno Mathsson favored natural wood frames, which he bent into organically flowing lines, and upholstered them with tightly woven cloth or leather, which adhered to the shape of the frame. Mathsson’s chairs are earthy, yet elegant, and form fitting with the human anatomy. In 1939, the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York, acquired 20 of Mathsson’s bentwood chairs. Subsequently, Edgar Kaufmann, jr. reproduced a Mathsson chair in a 1950 MOMA publication titled What is Modern Design?
Title: Earthenware Bowl, Executed: c. 1960
Artists: Otto Natzler (1908- ), Nationality: Austrian
Gertrud Natzler (1908-1971), Nationality: Austrian
Medium: Clay with green glaze, Dimensions: 5.25 inches x 7.75 inches diameter
Over a span of 32 years, Gertrud and Otto Natzler worked in their Los Angeles studio creating one-of-a-kind ceramic vessels. Gertrud was the master at the potter’s wheel. Her delicate touch enabled her to shape airy forms with walls that were eggshell thin. After a bowl, vase, or bottle took shape on Gertrud’s wheel, it passed into Otto’s hands for glazing and firing. Otto is credited with developing more than 2,000 glazes.
Title: Tiffany Favrile Glass and Bronze Lotus Leaf Lamp, Executed: c.1882-1906
Artists: Tiffany Studios, Nationality: American
Medium: Bronze and Glass, Dimensions: base: 25.75 inches x 9 inches diameter
shade: 5.5 inches x 26.5 inches diameter
Louis Comfort Tiffany was trained as a painter but from 1875, when he established the Louis Company Tiffany Company and Associated Artists, he devoted himself exclusively to the decorative arts. In 1881, he patented his fist glass lustering technique. Favrille glass, the trademark for Tiffany hand made glass resulted from these experiments.
Title: Savoy Vase, Executed: 1936
Artist: Alvar Aalto (1898-1976), Nationality: Finish
Medium: Glass, Dimensions: 7.5 inches x 6.5 inches
Architect, city planner, and designer of furniture, light fittings, textiles, and glass, Alvar Aalto is considered one of the great modern architects. He is responsible for humanizing the International Style through his emphasis on organic forms. The Savoy Vase is named after a Helsinki restaurant here he designed the interior and its furnishings. Perhaps his most famous glass design, it was included in Edgar Kaufmann, jr.’s 1950 Museum of Modern Art, New York, publication What is Modern Design?
Title: Fireplace Fork, Executed: c.1930
Artist: Samuel Yellin (1885-1940), Nationality: Polish
Medium: Wrought Iron, Dimensions: 55 inches x 5 inches
This fork was originally located in the living room of La Tourelle, the Kaufmann’s house in Pittsburgh.
Title: Candlestick, Executed: c. 1925-1930
Artist: Samuel Yellin (1885-1940), Nationality: Polish
Medium: Wrought Iron, Dimensions: 11.5 inches x 7 inches x 4.5 inches
This candlestick was a gift from Yellin to Liliane Kaufmann.
Samuel Yellin, one of America’s foremost iron artists, was key in bringing wrought iron back into the genre of 20th century decorative arts. Yellin eschewed modern iron working methods, equating them with sham showiness, the by-product of industrialization. All of his pieces were assembled without the aid of arc or acetone welding. Yellin did almost all of the hardware for the Kaufmann’s house in Pittsburgh, La Tourelle.
Yellin’s forge in Philadelphia, still in operation, is run by his granddaughter, Clare Yellin.
Title: Butterfly Chair, Executed: 1938
Artist: Jorge Ferrari-Hardoy Nationality: Argentinean
Anotinio Bonet
Juan Kurchan
Medium: Metal and Leather, Dimensions: 36 inches x 29.5 inches x 29.5 inches
The idea for the chair came from the Tripolina Campaign Chair used by British officers. Argentine architects Jorge Ferrari-Hardoy, Juan Kurchan, and Antonio Bonet replaced the wood structure with one piece of bent steel, but left the seat as canvas or leather. An example of this chair was in the Museum of Modern Art’s (MOMA), New York, seminal exhibit, The Modern Chair, curated by Edgar Kaufmann, jr. It was also included in Kaufmann’s 1950 MOMA publication What is Modern Design?
Title: Zuni Polychrome Jar, Executed: c. 1950
Artist/Nationality: Zuni Indians
Medium: Clay, Dimensions: 9.5 inches x 10 inches diameter
Zuni pots tend to be serviceable, but heavy with a coarse surface. Women, employing the coil technique, have always made Zuni pottery. The process of making traditional coiled pottery begins with gathering clay, plants, minerals and shards of broken pottery. The clay is the cleaned and soaked. The old pottery shards are ground down and mixed with the clay. The shards act as a temper to help prevent the pot from shrinking during the drying process. The clay is then rolled and coiled to form a new pot. Once the pot is formed a slip is applied. The pot is then painted and fired.
SCULPTURE
Title: Rose McClendon, Executed: c.1930-40
Artist: Richmond Barthe (1901-1989), Nationality: American
Medium: Cast Concrete, Dimensions: 42 inches x 12 inches
Richmond Barthe’s early life was spent in Mississippi and Louisiana. When he was 22, he traveled to Chicago where he began formal training at the School of the Art Institute. Under the influence of Archibald J. Motley, Jr. and Charles Schroeder, Barthe decided that his talents were best suited for sculpture. Barthe captivated the art world by producing sculptures and busts of African Americans as no one had ever done before. The Sculpture of Rose McClendon is one of many theatrical celebrity portraits that Barthe executed. Rose McClendon (1884-1936) was one of the most famous African American actresses in the period of 1920-1935.
Title: Landscape, Executed: c.1950s
Artist: Joseph Goto (1920-1994), Nationality: American
Medium: Bronze and Steel, Dimension: 110 inches x 9 inches
Joseph Goto was born in Hilo, Hawaii of Japanese parents. Before coming to the mainland in 1947 to study at the Art Institute of Chicago, he worked as a welder in a Naval shipyard, and thus acquired an understanding of the properties of steel. This was to become his preferred sculptural medium.
Title: Bear Run I, Executed: 1978-79
Artists: Bryan Hunt (1947- ), Nationality: American
Medium: Bronze, Dimensions: 120 inches x 14 inches
Born in 1947, Bryan Hunt was raised in Terre Haute, Indiana, and studied architecture in Florida. In the early 1970s Hunt began to create models of well-known architectural landmarks such as the Empire State Building, Hoover Dam, and the Great Wall of China. By 1976 his work had changed considerably. Hunt began to translate objects directly from the landscape (lakes, quarries, waterfalls) into richly carved, abstract forms isolated from their original contexts. Edgar Kaufmann, jr. commissioned this piece from Hunt specifically for Fallingwater.
Title: Mother and Child, Executed: 1941-45
Artist: Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973), Nationality: Lithuanian
Medium: Bronze, Dimensions: 47 inches x 50 inches
The sculpture Mother and Child post-dates Lipchitz cubist period. Though the artist began making sketches for the work while still in Paris in 1939, Lipchitz did not carry out the sculpture until after 1941 when he arrived in New York fleeing Nazi-threatened Paris. For Lipchitz, this work was a response to World War II.
Title: The Harpist, Executed: c. 1940s-50s
Artist: Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973), Nationality: Lithuanian
Medium: Bronze, Dimensions: 20 inches x 23 inches
Jacques Lipchitz was born in Lithuania, but moved to Paris in 1909 to study at the Ecoles des Beaux Arts and Academie Julien. In 1913, he met Picasso and began his association with the Cubists. In May 1940, with the German invasion of France, Lipchitz left Paris and in 1941 reached the United States, where he lived until his death.
Title: Madonna and Child Sculpture, Executed: c. 1420
Artist: Unknown, Nationality: Austrian-Bohemian origin
Medium: Wood, Dimensions: 39 inches x 16 inches
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT FURNITURE
The Frank Lloyd Wright designed furniture for Fallingwater is veneered North Carolina Black Walnut, manufactured by the Gillen Woodworking Company of Milwaukee. Wright specifically requested that the wood grain be used horizontally, rather than vertically, in order to resist warping and the ever present moisture of the setting. Additionally, a nine-ply wood (ship’s quality) was used to further reduce the possibility of warping.
Title: Zabutons (floor cushion)
Dimensions: 25.5 inches x 29.75 inches.
Title: Tabonette (side table)
There are three dimentions of tabonettes in the collection: (1) 14 inches x 15.75 inches x 15.75 inches; (2) 18 inches x 15.85 inches x 15.85 inches; and (3) 24 inches x 15.85 inches x 15.85 inches.
Title: Hassock
Dimensions: 26 inches x 21.75 inches x 12 inches.
Title: Coffee Table
Dimensions: 23.75 inches x 60 inches x 18.25 inches.
Title: Barrel Chair
Dimensions: 30 inches x 20.25 inches
This chair was originally designed to go around the Dining Room table, but Mrs. Kaufmann preferred to use a 3- legged chair on the uneven stone surface of the floor.
Title: Dining Room Table
Dimensions: 78.5 inches x 38 inches x 29.75 inches.
Title: Desk Lamp
There are three dimensions of desk lamps in the collection: (1) 36 inches x 8.8 inches; (2) 36 inches x 8.5 inches; and (3) 24.5 inches x 9.75 inches.
Title: Bedside Lamp
There are three dimensions of bedside lamps in the collection: (1) 12 inches x 5 inches x 5 inches; (2) 17.25 inches x 5 inches x 5 inches; and (3) 12 inches x 5 inches x 5 inches.
Title: Library Desk
Dimensions: 66.5 inches x 60 inches x 31 inches
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