Frank Lloyd Wright Archive to Move to New York

Two New York City-based institutions — the Museum of Modern Art and Columbia University’s Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library — have jointly acquired the massive archives of Frank Lloyd Wright, which have been housed at the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation at Taliesin West in Arizona. The Foundation will still retain copyright and intellectual property for the 23,000 drawings, 44,000 historical photographs, large-scale presentation models, manuscripts, extensive correspondence and other documents, but MoMA will house all three-dimensional works in its archive, while Columbia will store the two-dimensional pieces. Joint stewardship of the archives, which will go under the official moniker "The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives (The Museum of Modern Art | Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, New York)," will reportedly "provide new impetus for publications, exhibitions, and public programs on Wright’s work."