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  Midway Barns

I had a good time painting this on a hot day in July, sitting on the ground at Taliesin in the sun, with a watermelon on ice in the car

 Staircase with Statue

This is the incredible moment in the courtyard where it leads to the inside, which leads you up the stairs to the outside again

  Red Studio Window

This was the very first painting of the series, where I first took pine needles from the forest I was living in and threw them into the wet paint

   Corner of Angles

This is one of those amazing places where the natural beauty of a tree dynamically interacts with Wright's vibrant geometry

   Romeo & Juliet Windmill

This shows the  embrace of the hexagon with the diamond, and a few flames of Shakespearean passion burning at the top

   Blue Bowl in Courtyard

While I was painting his enormous blue bowl, a flock of geese tucked their wings in and dive bombed to the pond behind the residence 

   Fortress View - Residence

I sat in my car, using my steering wheel as an easel, looking up through the cracked windshield at  Taliesin 

   Pond View of Residence

I worked on this one on a warm, sunny in the fall, when the rushes were golden and dry,  rustling with the wind 

   Hillside Home School

This view seems very Japanese to me, with the shoji windows, red roofs and the asymetical tall white pine 

   Residence West View

Here you see how the  structure of Taliesin rambles over the hillside, with the echoing shapes of  low mountains in the distance 

   Visitors Center on River

This view shows the beautiful setting on  the Wisconsin River - to get it, I  shot my camera out the window while driving myself  across the bridge 

   Midway and the Hill

This view, with the naked trees in autumn, shows how the barns of Midway, once part of a working farm, complete the slope of the hill 

   Hillside Theater

I remember well the tour my family took of Wright's architecture school when I was a little girl, particularly our guide, a soft spoken, gentile, student 

   Windmill Top

I hope one day soon, just like the old farm days, everyone will have a windmill and make their own green energy 

   Hillside Corner & Tree

This beautiful old maple, clinging to a few golden leaves, had grown around a corner of the Hillside roof

   Door, Pool with Cat

Sherpa the cat was a great help in my work, flipping q-tips from my paint box up in the air while I painted 

   Stairs with Figure

My guide, like Dante's Beatrice, leading me  through the cantos of the glorious Paradiso of Taliesin 

    Door with Pillar

Some paintings came easily and some were like this one, where I was going somewhere with it and I didn't know where that was, til I got there several years after starting it

Wright’s Creations Inspire Davis’ Paintings

excerpted from

Oak Park Journal, Wednesday, June 7, 2006

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   Red Windows

This moment of harmony in the fenestration, is one of the myriad of details that did not escape the master's attention

   Cottage with Windmill

This little gem is by a student of Wright's and every summer some lucky person, an elf perhaps, gets to inhabit its tiny interior