“Every great architect is—necessarily—a great poet.”

“You will find Goodness and Truth all around you. If you choose, choose Truth.”

“Beauty in all forms is inspirational.”

“A good building is the greatest of poems.”

“The human soul grows by what it gives as well as what it feeds on.”

“There is nothing so hypnotic as the truth.”

Keiran Murphy

Keiran Murphy has been the principal historic researcher at Taliesin, the home of Frank Lloyd Wright located outside of Spring Green, WI. Murphy has been involved in the research, preservation and interpretation of the five-building complex on the Taliesin Estate, co-author (with architectural historian Anne Biebel) of a published article on a find at Wright’s Hillside structure, as well as the Hillside Comprehensive Chronology.

She served as co-curator of “Taliesin: the Work of a Lifetime” in 2011, has given a number of PowerPoint presentations on the history of Wright, his home, his family, and his Taliesin Fellowship community, narrated a 3-D Virtual tour of Taliesin, and has consulted on several books about Wright and Taliesin. Murphy received her MA in Art History from the University of Wisconsin and her BFA from Emerson College, in Boston, MA.

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THE LATEST FROM ‘MS. KEIRAN’.

Distant view of Taliesin in 1921-22. The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives (The Museum of Modern Art, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, New York), Photograph by Clarence Fuermann of Henry Fuermann and Sons.

The Musical-Note Retaining Wall at Taliesin

Reading Time: 4 minutes We hear he liked music,             if you didn’t know that, just trust me but what is this thing about a Musical Note? I’m talking about a retaining wall outside of Taliesin and I’m going to write about it today. It’s called that because It looks like two musical quarter notes touching end-to-end.1 You can […]

 

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Photograph of Keiran with a tour group on Taliesin's Hill Crown. Keiran has white pants on.

Doing too many Taliesin tours

Reading Time: 5 minutes My post today isn’t going to be about taking too many Taliesin tours, but about giving too many of them. That’s because, you see, we’re coming into late September and I realized that the Taliesin tour guides right now may start to feel like what I wrote years ago             in my unpublished memoir, “What […]

 

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Photo of Flower in the Crannied Wall at Taliesin's Drafting Studio. By Keiran Murphy.

Flower in the Crannied Wall at Taliesin

Reading Time: 5 minutes I posted today because I want to talk about the “Flower in the Crannied Wall” statue at Taliesin. She was originally designed for Frank Lloyd Wright’s Susan Lawrence Dana residence in Springfield, IL (1902-04). Sculptor Richard Bock make her in terra cotta for Wright and she was placed inside, near the front door of the […]

 

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