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Set of 27 historic photographs. Guggenheim Museum during construction 1956-57 (1956 - S.400). Set of 27 historic photographs. According to "The Guggenheim," 2009, Hilla Rebay first approached Frank Lloyd Wright in June 1943. He immediately began conceptual drawings, but it would take over two years to revise and approve final drawings. On September 20, 1945 the model of the Guggenheim Museum was unveiled. From October 22 - December 13, 1953, the Guggenheim hosted the exhibit "Sixty Years of Living Architecture." Wright designed, and Guggenheim built the Usonian Exhibition House on the site of the		Guggenheim Museum. On May 4, 1956 Harry Guggenheim announced the beginning of construction, and Ground was finally broken on August 14, 1956. The Guggenheim Museum opened to the public on October 21, 1959, six months after Wright's death. This set of 27 images were taken in February and July (and possibly August) 1957 by Taliesin apprentice Samuel Matthews, who joined the Fellowship in January 1954. Note: For research purposes, these images were scanned, enhanced and cleaned up, then printed as 8 x 10 photographs.

Lower Level. Courtesy of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.

Ground Floor. Courtesy of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.

First Floor. Courtesy of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.

1) Construction site sign, February 1957. "The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Frank Lloyd Wright Architect. Builders: Euclid Contracting Corp. 101 Park Avenue, New York 17, N.Y. Sub-Contractors: Gasman Plumbing & Heating Corp. T. Frederick Jackson Inc. Electric. Armor Elevator Company Inc. Norton Booth Fabricators Inc. Iron Work. Transit Mix-McCormack. Mortar Mix. Williamsburg Steel Prod. Co. Atlas Demolition Co. Inc. Ardsley Construction Co. Inc. Gunite. Metro Industrial Painting Corp. Hope's Windows Inc. V. Foscato Inc. Terrazzo. Pittsburgh Testing Laboratories. Photograph by Samuel Matthews. Original 5 x 3.5 B&W photograph. 7.2 x 10 B&W photograph. (S#1205.58.1014-1)

2) Lower level, viewed from the West, February 1957. Work progresses on foundation walls. The entrance to the lower level, at the end of the exterior ramp is left of center. The Lecture Room is to the right. The formation of the semi-circular windows can be seen in the foreground. The 4 East 89th Street Building is in the background on the left. The 5 East 88th Street Building is in the background on the right. Photograph by Samuel Matthews. Original 3.5 x 5 B&W photograph. 10 x 7.2 B&W photograph. (S#1205.58.1014-2)

3) Lower level, viewed from the West, February 1957. Work progresses on foundation walls. The entrance to the lower level, at the end of the exterior ramp is on the left. The Lecture Room is to the right. The formation of the semi-circular windows can be seen in the foreground. The 4 East 89th Street Building is in the background on the left. The 5 East 88th Street Building is in the background on the right. Photograph by Samuel Matthews. Original 3.5 x 5 B&W photograph. 10 x 7.2 B&W photograph. (S#1205.58.1014-3)

4) Lower level Lecture Room, viewed from the West, February 1957. Work progresses on foundation walls. The exterior ramp leading to the lower level is below the wall in the foreground, capped with semi-circular windows. The 4 East 89th Street Building is in the background on the left. The 5 East 88th Street Building is in the background on the right. Photograph by Samuel Matthews. Original 3.5 x 5 B&W photograph. 10 x 7.2 B&W photograph. (S#1205.58.1014-4)

5) Lower level Lecture Room, viewed from the Northwest, February 1957. The main entrance is to the left, the Lecture Room is to the right. The 4 East 89th Street Building is in the background on the left. The 5 East 88th Street Building is in the background on the right. Photograph by Samuel Matthews. Original 3.5 x 5 B&W photograph. 10 x 8 B&W photograph. (S#1205.58.1014-5)

6) Lower level Lecture Room , viewed from the Northwest, February 1957. Work progresses on foundation walls. The main entrance is to the left, the Lecture Room is to the right. The 4 East 89th Street Building is in the background on the left. The 5 East 88th Street Building is in the background on the right. Photograph by Samuel Matthews. Original 3.5 x 5 B&W photograph. 10 x 7.2 B&W photograph. (S#1205.58.1014-6)

7) Lower level Lecture Room, viewed from the Northwest, February 1957. Work progresses on foundation walls. The exterior ramp leading to the lower level is below the wall in the foreground, capped with semi-circular windows. Bracing, used for pouring the concrete floor of the Main Gallery is under construction on the right. The 5 East 88th Street Building is in the background. Photograph by Samuel Matthews. Original 3.5 x 5 B&W photograph. 10 x 7.2 B&W photograph. (S#1205.58.1014-7)

8) Lower level Lecture Room, viewed from the Northwest, February 1957. Work progresses on foundation walls. The exterior ramp leading to the lower level is below the wall in the foreground, capped with semi-circular windows. Bracing, used for pouring the concrete floor of the Main Gallery is under construction on the right. The 5 East 88th Street Building is in the background. Photograph by Samuel Matthews. Original 5 x 3.5 B&W photograph. 7.2 x10 B&W photograph. (S#1205.58.1014-8)

9) Lower level Lecture Room, viewed from the Northwest, February 1957. Work progresses on foundation walls. The exterior ramp leading to the lower level is below the wall in the foreground, capped with semi-circular windows. Bracing, used for pouring the concrete floor of the Main Gallery is under construction on the right. The 5 East 88th Street Building is in the background. Photograph by Samuel Matthews. Original 3.5 x 5 B&W photograph. 10 x 7.2 B&W photograph. (S#1205.58.1014-9)

10) Lower level Lecture Room, viewed from the Northwest, February 1957. The corner of 5th Avenue and East 88th Street is the far right. Work progresses on foundation walls. The exterior ramp leading to the lower level is below the wall in the foreground, capped with semi-circular windows. Bracing, used for pouring the concrete floor of the Main Gallery is under construction on the left. The 5 East 88th Street Building is in the background. Photograph by Samuel Matthews. Original 3.5 x 5 B&W photograph. 10 x 7.2 B&W photograph. (S#1205.58.1014-10)

Completed view of the exterior ramp that leads to the entrance to the lower level. Photographed from the street level looking down at the exterior ramp, viewed from front sidewalk close to the main entrance, March 2010. The Lecture Room is on the lower level (left), the main gallery is above it on the ground floor. Original 10 x 7.5 Color photograph. Copyright 2010, Douglas M. Steiner.

11) View of the semi-circular windows on the west wall of the lower level February 1957. Photographed from the platform being built to support the pouring of the concrete floor of the Main Gallery. The corner of 5th Avenue and East 88th Street is the far left. Vertical display sign is on the far right. Photograph by Samuel Matthews. Original 3.5 x 5 B&W photograph. 10 x 7.2 B&W photograph. (S#1205.58.1014-11)

12) View of the semi-circular windows on the west wall of the lower level February 1957. Photographed from the platform being built to support the pouring of the concrete floor of the Main Gallery. The corner of 5th Avenue and East 88th Street is the far left. Vertical display sign is on the right. Photograph by Samuel Matthews. Original 3.5 x 5 B&W photograph. 10 x 7.2 B&W photograph. (S#1205.58.1014-12)

13) View of the semi-circular windows on the west wall of the lower level February 1957. Photographed from the platform being built to support the pouring of the concrete floor of the Main Gallery. The corner of 5th Avenue and East 88th Street is the far left. Vertical display sign is on the right. Photograph by Samuel Matthews. Original 3.5 x 5 B&W photograph. 10 x 7.2 B&W photograph. (S#1205.58.1014-13)

14) View of the semi-circular windows on the west wall of the lower level February 1957. Photographed from the platform being built to support the pouring of the concrete floor of the Main Gallery. The corner of 5th Avenue and East 88th Street is the far left. Vertical display sign is in the center. Photograph by Samuel Matthews. Original 3.5 x 5 B&W photograph. 10 x 7.2 B&W photograph. (S#1205.58.1014-14)

15) View from the North of the interior main gallery under construction, July 1957. Photographed from the ground level looking up at the first level. The beginning of the ramp is in the foreground. Framework is in place for pouring the floor for the second level. To the right, a sculpture by construction workers parading modern art. Photograph by Samuel Matthews. Original 3.5 x 5 B&W photograph. 10 x 7.2 B&W photograph. (S#1205.58.1014-15)

Completed view from the base of the ramp in the main Gallery. Built-in planter is on the right. Published in "The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York," 1960, p.42, courtesy Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Horizon Pres, New York.

16) View from the West of the interior main gallery under construction, July 1957. Photographed from the ground level looking up at the first level. The beginning of the ramp is on the left. Framework is in place for pouring the floor for the second level. The 4 East 89th Street Building is in the background on the left. The 5 East 88th Street Building is in the background on the right. Photograph by Samuel Matthews. Original 3.5 x 5 B&W photograph. 10 x 7.2 B&W photograph. (S#1205.58.1014-16)

17) View from the West of the interior main gallery under construction, July 1957. Photographed from the top of the ramp between the ground and first level. Planter is in the foreground on the right. The beginning of the ramp is on the left. Framework is in place for pouring the floor for the second level. Photograph by Samuel Matthews. Original 3.5 x 5 B&W photograph. 10 x 7.2 B&W photograph. (S#1205.58.1014-17)

Completed view from the West of the interior main gallery. Photographed from the top of the ramp between the ground and first level. Planter is in the foreground on the right. The beginning of the ramp is on the left. Published in "Frank Lloyd Wright Architecture," Futgagawa; Pfeiffer, 2003, p.155, courtesy A.D.A. Edita, Tokyo.

18) View from the West of the interior main gallery under construction, July 1957. Photographed from the ground floor, looking up at the first level, at the circular ramp cantilevered out over the beginning of the ramp. Photograph by Samuel Matthews. Original 3.5 x 5 B&W photograph. 10 x 7.2 B&W photograph. (S#1205.58.1014-18)

Completed view from the West of the interior main gallery. The beginning of the ramp is to the right. Published in "Wright: il Museo Guggenheim," Chresti, 1965, p.9, courtesy Sadea/Sansoni.

19) View from the Southwest of the interior main gallery under construction, July 1957. Photographed from the ground or first level, looking up. The building in the background on the right is the old (demolished) building on the corner of 5th Avenue and East 89th Street. Photograph by Samuel Matthews. Original 3.5 x 5 B&W photograph. 10 x 7.2 B&W photograph. (S#1205.58.1114-19)

20) Close-up view from the Southwest of the interior main gallery under construction, July 1957. Photographed from the ground or first level, looking up. Photograph by Samuel Matthews. Original 3.5 x 5 B&W photograph. 10 x 7.2 B&W photograph. (S#1205.58.1014-20)

21) Exterior view of the Monitor Building (the Northwest section of the museum), viewed from the Southeast, July 1957. Photographed from the ground or first level, looking up at the first level. Job trailer is in the background. Photograph by Samuel Matthews. Original 3.5 x 5 B&W photograph. 10 x 7.2 B&W photograph. (S#1205.58.1014-21)

22) Exterior view of the main entrance from the West, July 1957. Photographed from the ground looking up at the first level. The exterior ramp leading to the lower level is in the foreground on the right. The building in the background on the left is the old (demolished) building on the corner of 5th Avenue and East 89th Street. Photograph by Samuel Matthews. Original 3.5 x 5 B&W photograph. 10 x 7.2 B&W photograph. (S#1205.58.1014-22)

23) Exterior view of the entrance to the lower level at the bottom of the exterior ramp, viewed from the West, July 1957. Photographed from the street level looking down at the lower level. The main entrance is in the upper background. The exterior ramp is to the right. The Lecture Room is to the right, behind the semi-circular windows in the foreground. Photograph by Samuel Matthews. Original 3.5 x 5 B&W photograph. 10 x 7.2 B&W photograph. (S#1205.58.1014-23)

24) Exterior view of the entrance to the lower level at the bottom of the exterior ramp, viewed from the Northwest, July 1957. Photographed from the street level looking down at the lower level. The main entrance is in the upper left. The exterior ramp is in the foreground in front of the wall with the semi-circular windows. The Lecture Room is on the lower level, main gallery on the ground floor. Photograph by Samuel Matthews. Original 3.5 x 5 B&W photograph. 10 x 7.2 B&W photograph. (S#1205.58.1014-24)

25) Exterior view of the Grand Gallery and Caf� on the Southern corner of the museum complex. The lower level housed the backstage for the lecture room. The Caf�, with it's round portholes (blocked by fencing) is on the ground level, the Grand Gallery is on the first level. Viewed from the South. Forms are still in place for forming the round corners. Central Park is in the background on the left. The 5 East 88th Street Building is in the foreground on the right. Photograph by Samuel Matthews. Original 3.5 x 5 B&W photograph. 10 x 7.2 B&W photograph. (S#1205.58.1014-25)

Completed view of the Grand Gallery and Caf� on the Southern corner of the museum complex. The lower level housed the backstage for the lecture room. The Caf�, with it's round portholes is on the ground level, the Grand Gallery is on the first level. Viewed from the South. The 5 East 88th Street Building is in the foreground on the right. Published in "The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York," 1960, p.33, courtesy Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Horizon Pres, New York.

Completed view of the exterior of the Cafe with its round portholes on the lower level. Viewed from the Southeast looking toward 5th Avenue and Central Park. Original 10 x 7.5 Color photograph. Copyright 2010, Douglas M. Steiner.

26) Exterior view of the construction of the upper level of the Grand Gallery wall. Viewed from the Southeast, looking toward the 5 East 88th Street Building. Date is miss marked as "Aug 56." (Most likely Aug 57) Photograph by Samuel Matthews. Original 3.5 x 5 B&W photograph. 10 x 7.2 B&W photograph. (S#1205.58.1014-26)

27) Exterior view of the construction of the upper level of the Grand Gallery wall. Date is miss marked as "Aug 56." (Most likely Aug 57) Photograph by Samuel Matthews. Original 3.5 x 5 B&W photograph. 10 x 7.2 B&W photograph. (S#1205.58.1014-27)

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GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM 2010 (1956 - S.400)


Set of 29 photographs. Guggenheim Museum. No Beginning, No End. Frank Lloyd Wright was first approached in June 1943 to design the Guggenheim Museum. He immediately began conceptual drawings, but it would take over two years to approve the final drawings. On September 20, 1945 the model of the Guggenheim Museum was unveiled. From October 22 - December 13, 1953, the Guggenheim hosted the exhibit "Sixty Years of Living Architecture." Wright designed, and Guggenheim built the Usonian Exhibition House on the site of the Guggenheim		Museum. On May 4, 1956 Harry Guggenheim announced the beginning of construction, and Ground was finally broken on August 14, 1956. The Guggenheim Museum opened to the public on October 21, 1959, six months after Wright�s death. This set of 29 images were taken in March 2010, on a trip to New York City. We approached the Guggenheim from across the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reserve in Central Park. Photographed by Douglas M. Steiner.

1) Guggenheim Museum, 2010 (1956 - S.400). View of Manhattan from Central Park West (Street), looking Southeast across the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reserve in Central Park. The Guggenheim Museum is left of center. "Since its inception, Wright's spatial accomplishment at the Guggenheim has not been rivaled. Perhaps for this reason it seems, for me, further ahead of its time today than it did when it was first built." William Pederson, Architect, New York. Original 10 x 7.5 Color photograph. Copyright 2010, Douglas M. Steiner. (ST#2010.21.1114-1)

2) Guggenheim Museum, 2010 (1956 - S.400). Close-up view of the Guggenheim Museum from Central Park West (Street), looking Southeast across the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reserve in Central Park. "Wright had a wonderful sense of cantilevers and he had a wonderful sense of what you can do in concrete, but there were certain boundaries that he wanted to push even further." Nancy Hudson, Structural Engineer. Original 10 x 7.5 Color photograph. Copyright 2010, Douglas M. Steiner. (ST#2010.21.1114-2)

3) Guggenheim Museum, 2010 (1956 - S.400). Close-up view of the Guggenheim Museum from Central Park West (Street), looking Southeast across the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reserve in Central Park. "There are very few buildings that have the right, I think, to lay claim to being one of the most important works of architecture in the twentieth century, and the Guggenheim Museum by Frank Lloyd Wright is one of them." Jeffrey Kipnis, Architectural Historian. Original 10 x 7.5 Color photograph. Copyright 2010, Douglas M. Steiner. (ST#2010.21.1114-3)

4) Guggenheim Museum, 2010 (1956 - S.400). View of the Guggenheim Museum from East Drive, Central Park, looking Northeast. Original 10 x 7.5 Color photograph. Copyright 2010, Douglas M. Steiner. (ST#2010.21.1114-4)

5) Guggenheim Museum, 2010 (1956 - S.400). Close-up of the Guggenheim Museum from East Drive, Central Park, looking Northeast. "By organic architecture, I mean an architecture that develops from within outward in harmony with the conditions of its being, as distinguished from one that is applied from without." Frank Lloyd Wright, "In the Cause of Architecture." Architectural Record, May 1914. Original 10 x 7.5 Color photograph. Copyright 2010, Douglas M. Steiner. (ST#2010.21.1114-5)

6) Guggenheim Museum, 2010 (1956 - S.400). View of the Monitor (Administration) Building, from East Drive, Central Park, looking Southeast. "Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you." Frank Lloyd Wright. Original 10 x 7.5 Color photograph. Copyright 2010, Douglas M. Steiner. (ST#2010.21.1114-6)

7) Guggenheim Museum, 2010 (1956 - S.400). View of the Monitor (Administration) Building, from East Drive, Central Park, looking Southeast. Detail of the window design. Original 10 x 7.5 Color photograph. Copyright 2010, Douglas M. Steiner. (ST#2010.21.1114-7)

8) Guggenheim Museum, 2010 (1956 - S.400). Approach from the Southwest corner of 5th Avenue and E. 89th Street. The Monitor (Administration) Building is on the left, Main Gallery in the center, the Grand Gallery is on the right. "Here for the first time architecture appears plastic, one floor flowing into another (more like sculpture) instead of the usual superimposition of stratified layers cutting and butting into each other by way of post and beam construction." Frank Lloyd Wright. "The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York", Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Horizon Press, 1960, p.16. Original 10 x 7.5 Color photograph. Copyright 2010, Douglas M. Steiner. (ST#2010.21.1114-8)

9) Guggenheim Museum, 2010 (1956 - S.400). Viewed from the sidewalk in front of the main entrance. The Monitor (Administration) Building is on the left, Main Gallery is on the right. The 1990 addition is in the center in the background. "Architecture, may it please the court, is the welding of imagination and common sense into a restraint upon specialists, codes and fools. Also it is an enlargement of their imaginations. Architecture therefore should make it easier to conceive the infinite variety of specific instances which lie unrealized by man in the heart of Nature." Frank Lloyd Wright. "The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York", Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Horizon Press, 1960, p.18. Original 10 x 7.5 Color photograph. Copyright 2010, Douglas M. Steiner. (ST#2010.21.1114-9)

10) Guggenheim Museum, 2010 (1956 - S.400). Viewed from the sidewalk in front of the main entrance. The Monitor (Administration) Building is on the left, Main Gallery is to the right. "Now there can be nothing frozen or static about either the methods or effects of organic architecture. All must be the spontaneous reaction of the creative mind to a specific problem in the nature of materials." Frank Lloyd Wright. "The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York", Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Horizon Press, 1960, p.28. Original 10 x 7.5 Color photograph. Copyright 2010, Douglas M. Steiner. (ST#2010.21.1114-10)

11) Guggenheim Museum, 2010 (1956 - S.400). View of the Monitor (Administration) Building from the sidewalk in front of the main entrance. The Guggenheim stands in contrast to the stereotypical New York building. Each level of the Monitor Buildings floats above the next. Original 10 x 7.5 Color photograph. Copyright 2010, Douglas M. Steiner. (ST#2010.21.1114-11)

12) Guggenheim Museum, 2010 (1956 - S.400). Detail of the Monitor (Administration) Building viewed from the North. View of the first and second levels. All three levels, ground, first and second are round. The design of the roof fascia is reminiscent of the design of the Grady Gammage Auditorium, and the Lockridge Medical Clinic. Overlapping converse semi-circles create a pattern. The windows on the first and second levels align with the fascia. When combining the semi-circles in the fascia with the singular semi-circle in the window below, they mimic the design and also complete a full circle. The lower window is reminiscent Stohr Arcade. Original 10 x 7.5 Color photograph. Copyright 2010, Douglas M. Steiner. (ST#2010.21.1114-12)

13) Guggenheim Museum, 2010 (1956 - S.400). Detail of the Monitor (Administration) Building cast concrete fascia panels. The design of the roof fascia is reminiscent of the design of the Grady Gammage Auditorium, and the Lockridge Medical Clinic. Overlapping converse semi-circles create a pattern. Original 10 x 7.5 Color photograph. Copyright 2010, Douglas M. Steiner. (ST#2010.21.1114-13)

14) Guggenheim Museum, 2010 (1956 - S.400). Detail of the Monitor (Administration) Building cast concrete fascia panels. The design of the roof fascia is reminiscent of the design of the Grady Gammage Auditorium, and the Lockridge Medical Clinic. Overlapping converse semi-circles create a pattern. Original 10 x 7.5 Color photograph. Copyright 2010, Douglas M. Steiner. (ST#2010.21.1114-14)

15) Guggenheim Museum, 2010 (1956 - S.400). Detail of the Monitor (Administration) Building cast concrete fascia panels. The design of the roof fascia is reminiscent of the design of the Grady Gammage Auditorium, and the Lockridge Medical Clinic. Overlapping converse semi-circles create a pattern. Original 10 x 7.5 Color photograph. Copyright 2010, Douglas M. Steiner. (ST#2010.21.1114-15)

16) Guggenheim Museum, 2010 (1956 - S.400). Detail of the Monitor (Administration) Building window. The windows on the first and second levels align with the fascia. When combining the semi-circles in the fascia with the singular semi-circle in the window below, they mimic the design and also complete a full circle. The lower window is reminiscent Stohr Arcade. Original 10 x 7.5 Color photograph. Copyright 2010, Douglas M. Steiner. (ST#2010.21.1114-16)

17) Guggenheim Museum, 2010 (1956 - S.400). Viewed from the sidewalk in front of the main entrance. The Monitor (Administration) Building is on the left, Main Gallery is to the right. The 1990 addition is in the center in the background. "Concrete is a plastic material � susceptible to the impress of imagination. I saw a kind of weaving coming out of it. Why not weave a kind of building.'' Frank Lloyd Wright. "The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York", Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Horizon Press, 1960, p.31. Original 10 x 7.5 Color photograph. Copyright 2010, Douglas M. Steiner. (ST#2010.21.1114-17)

18) Guggenheim Museum, 2010 (1956 - S.400). Viewed from the sidewalk in front of the main entrance. The 1990 addition is in the background on the left, the Main Gallery is to the right. "This type of structure has no inside independent of the outside, as one flows with, and is of, the other ... The features of this new structure are seen coming inside as well as the inside features going outside. This integration yields a nobility of quality and the strength of simplicity ... a truth of which our culture has yet seen little..." Frank Lloyd Wright. "The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York", Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Horizon Press, 1960, p.40. Original 10 x 7.5 Color photograph. Copyright 2010, Douglas M. Steiner. (ST#2010.21.1114-18)

19) Guggenheim Museum, 2010 (1956 - S.400). View of the main entrance from the sidewalk looking Southwest. "...It is not to subjugate the paintings to the building that I conceived this plan. On the contrary, it was to make the building and the painting an uninterrupted, beautiful symphony such as never existed in the World of Art before." Frank Lloyd Wright. "The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York", Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Horizon Press, 1960, p.49. Original 10 x 7.5 Color photograph. Copyright 2010, Douglas M. Steiner. (ST#2010.21.1114-19)

20) Guggenheim Museum, 2010 (1956 - S.400). View of the exterior ramp that leads to the entrance to the lower level. Photographed from the street level looking down at the exterior ramp, viewed from front sidewalk close to the main entrance. The Lecture Room is on the lower level (left), the main gallery is above it on the ground floor. Original 10 x 7.5 Color photograph. Copyright 2010, Douglas M. Steiner. (ST#2010.21.1114-20)

21) Guggenheim Museum, 2010 (1956 - S.400). The Northeast end of the first level forms a semi-circle. Wright took that footprint, turned it 90 degrees and duplicated it on the Southwest side, and cantilevered the semi-circle out over the sidewalk forming the Architectural Archive Room. Viewed from the South, looking up from the sidewalk. Original 10 x 7.5 Color photograph. Copyright 2010, Douglas M. Steiner. (ST#2010.21.1114-21)

22) Guggenheim Museum, 2010 (1956 - S.400). From the Southwest corner of 5th Avenue and East 88th Street, looking up past the cantilevered Architectural Archive Room to the Main Gallery. The Grand Gallery is on the right. "...The building we have built was formed on the idea that an architectural environment making the picture an individual thing in itself � emphasized like a signet in a ring -- would give relief and emphasis to the painting to an extent never yet known." Frank Lloyd Wright. "The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York", Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Horizon Press, 1960, p.57. Original 10 x 7.5 Color photograph. Copyright 2010, Douglas M. Steiner. (ST#2010.21.1114-22)

23) Guggenheim Museum, 2010 (1956 - S.400). From the Southwest corner of 5th Avenue and East 88th Street, looking up at the Main Gallery. The Grand Gallery is on the right. "...All is one great space on a continuous floor... the net result of such construction is greater repose, an atmosphere of the unbroken wave..." Frank Lloyd Wright. "The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York", Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Horizon Press, 1960, p.68. Original 10 x 7.5 Color photograph. Copyright 2010, Douglas M. Steiner. (ST#2010.21.1114-23)

24) Guggenheim Museum, 2010 (1956 - S.400). From the Southwest corner of 5th Avenue and East 88th Street, looking up past the cantilevered Architectural Archive Room to the Main Gallery. The Grand Gallery is on the right. Original 10 x 7.5 Color photograph. Copyright 2010, Douglas M. Steiner. (ST#2010.21.1114-24)

25) Guggenheim Museum, 2010 (1956 - S.400). View of the exterior ramp that leads to the entrance of the lower level. The corner of 5th Avenue and East 88th Street is to the left, the Lecture Room is on the lower level to the right, the main gallery is above it on the ground floor. Original 10 x 7.5 Color photograph. Copyright 2010, Douglas M. Steiner. (ST#2010.21.1114-25)

26) Guggenheim Museum, 2010 (1956 - S.400). View of the exterior of the Cafe with its round portholes on the ground level, the Grand Gallery is on the first level. Viewed from the Southeast looking toward 5th Avenue and Central Park. Original 10 x 7.5 Color photograph. Copyright 2010, Douglas M. Steiner. (ST#2010.21.1114-26)

27) Guggenheim Museum, 2010 (1956 - S.400). Detail of the Caf� porthole. The Cafe is on the ground level, the Grand Gallery is above on the first level. Original 10 x 7.5 Color photograph. Copyright 2010, Douglas M. Steiner. (ST#2010.21.1114-27)

28) Guggenheim Museum, 2010 (1956 - S.400). Gate at the Southern corner of the complex. It leads down to the service entrance on the ground floor and backstage on the lower level. Original 10 x 7.5 Color photograph. Copyright 2010, Douglas M. Steiner. (ST#2010.21.1114-28)

29) Guggenheim Museum, 2010 (1956 - S.400). View looking up at the skylight in the Main Gallery. The Guggenheim Museum is as much a piece of art as the art itself. Wright's work is three dimensional. It surrounds you. You experience it, it touches your soul. Original 10 x 7.5 Color photograph. Copyright 2010, Douglas M. Steiner. (ST#2010.21.1114-29)

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