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’.
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 […]
Reading Time: 5 minutesNo, not the first time he violated it. I wrote about that before when introducing you to the second Mrs. Wright. In this post I’ll write about the second (and last) time. As I wrote once before, information about the Mann Act is something you learn when working at Taliesin. In particular, the Mann Act […]
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe 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 […]