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Window to the West

For this particular project I choose Frank Lloyd Wright. Frank Lloyd Wright (1867- 1959) was born in Richland Center or nearby Bear Valley Wisconsin. There is some speculation as to where exactly, but this area was vastly prairie and lacking true and absolute boundaries. He was the son of a musician, who had left his family behind when Wright was a very young child. He spent a predominant amount of his childhood with his mother, Anna, and her sisters on a farmland area near Spring Green Wisconsin. The area was recognized for, and still is, the rolling lush hills and beautiful open fields required for the farming and dairy industry that supports the majority of the states revenue. Wright briefly attended the University of Wisconsin and had shown a tremendous aptitude for drawing. When he left Wisconsin, in 1887, he was in search of a larger and more modern environment that would allow him to practice the area of art that he had specialized in, engineering and architectural design...

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