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.
THE LATEST FROM ‘MS. KEIRAN’.
The Chronologies—my detailed history of Taliesin
Reading Time: 6 minutesThe drawing above shows the main floor of Taliesin where Wright lived, 1936-39. This is one of my favorite Taliesin drawings. Why? Because it actually shows the space pretty much as it existed at that time. In this case, I’m talking about Taliesin the building, not Taliesin the estate. I mean: the UNESCO site, […]
Hill Tower at Taliesin
Reading Time: 5 minutesAn unknown woman stands in the Hill Garden of Taliesin with the Hill Tower behind her. Either Marion Mahoney Griffen or husband Walter Burley Griffin took the photo, 1920-24. The Griffins met while working in Frank Lloyd Wright’s Oak Park studio. I can’t tell if the woman is Marion, who would have been in her […]
The Abandoned Stairway at Taliesin
Reading Time: 6 minutesI was working on my Taliesin Book1 and thought up another change at Taliesin I should write about. So today I’m going to write about what you see in the photo at the top of this post. The photo shows a stairway that used to take you from Taliesin’s Guest Wing (the first floor) up […]