Watercolour from the Canberra Design

Artist's Studio (Section). Watercolour and ink by Marion Griffin 1894

Marion Lucy Mahony Griffin (born February 14, 1871 in Chicago, died August 10, 1961 in Chicago) was an American artist and one of the first licenced female architects in the world. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 218 pixel Image in higher resolution (2952 × 804 pixel, file size: 176 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)Canberra plan submitted to the Canberra design competition by Walter Burley Griffin View from the summit of Mount Ainslie. 1911-1912 Held at... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 218 pixel Image in higher resolution (2952 × 804 pixel, file size: 176 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)Canberra plan submitted to the Canberra design competition by Walter Burley Griffin View from the summit of Mount Ainslie. 1911-1912 Held at... Image File history File links ArtistStudio. ... Image File history File links ArtistStudio. ... February 14 is the 45th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1871 (MDCCCLXXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Nickname: The Windy City, The Second City, Chi Town, City of the Big Shoulders, The 312, The City that Works, Second City (reference to when Chicago was second in population and prestige to New York). ... August 10 is the 222nd day of the year (223rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1961 calendar). ... This article includes a list of works cited but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ...

Mahony graduated from MIT in 1894 and went to work the next year in the Chicago studio of Frank Lloyd Wright, designing furniture, stained glass windows and decorative panels. She would stay in Wright's studio for almost fifteen years and was an important contributor to his reputation, particularly for the influential Wasmuth Portfolio. Architectural writer Reyner Banham called her the "greatest architectural delineator of her generation". When Wright disappeared to Europe in 1909, Mahony oversaw the completion of many of his unfinished commissions. Two examples of these included Henry Ford's Dearborn mansion, Fair Lane and the Amberg House in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private, coeducational research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... 1894 (MDCCCXCIV) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Frank Lloyd Wright (June 8, 1867—April 9, 1959) was one of the most prominent and influential architects during the first half of the 20th century. ... Look up furniture in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Strictly speaking, stained glass is glass that has been painted with silver stain and then fired. ... The Wasmuth portfolio (named after the German publisher), was one of Frank Lloyd Wrights first published works. ... Reyner Banham (1922-1988) was a prolific Anglo-American architectural critic and writer best known for his 1960 theoretical treatise Theory and Design in the First Machine Age, and his 1971 book Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies in which he categorized the Angelean experience into four ecological models... Henry Ford (1919) Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was the founder of the Ford Motor Company and father of modern assembly lines used in mass production. ... Location in Michigan Coordinates: Country United States State Michigan County Wayne County  - Mayor John B. O’Reilly, Jr. ... Fair Lane was the name of Henry Fords estate in Dearborn, Michigan. ... Nickname: Location of Grand Rapids within Kent County, Michigan Coordinates: Country United States State Michigan County Kent  - Mayor George Heartwell Area    - City 45. ...

Mahony married Walter Burley Griffin in 1911, beginning a partnership that would last for 28 years. Griffin was a fellow architect, a fellow ex-employee of Wright, and a fellow member of the Prairie School of architecture. Her stunning watercolour perspectives of her husband's design for the new Australian capital city of Canberra helped him secure first prize in the international competition for the plan of the city. In 1914 they moved to Australia to oversee the design of the new capital. Walter Burley Griffin and his wife Marion Mahony Griffin, in Sydney in 1930 Walter Burley Griffin (November 24, 1876 - February 11, 1937) was an American architect and landscape architect best known for his role in designing Canberra, Australias capital city. ... It has been suggested that Prairie Houses be merged into this article or section. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Watercolor is a painting technique making use of water-soluble pigments that are either transparent or opaque and are formulated with gum to bond the pigment to the paper. ... For other uses, see Canberra (disambiguation). ...

Architectural drawings--primarily created by Mahony--and other archival materials by and about the Griffins are held by numerous institutions in the United States, including the Drawings and Archives Department of Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University; the Block Gallery at Northwestern University; The Art Institute of Chicago; and the New-York Historical Society, as well as by several repositories in Australia, including the National Archives of Australia, and the Newman College Archives of the University of Melbourne. The Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library is part of Columbia Universitys library system. ... Columbia University is a private research university in the United States. ... Northwestern University is a prestigious private, coeducational, non-sectarian research university, located in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois. ... On the western edge of Grant Park in Chicago, Illinois, is the Art Institute of Chicago, one of the premier art museums and schools in the United States, known especially for the extensive collection of impressionist and American art in its museum. ... The New-York Historical Society is an American organization located in New York City and dedicated to the preservation of the citys history. ... The National Archives of Australia is a body established by the Government of Australia for the purpose of preserving government and public records. ... The University of Melbourne   The University of Melbourne, located in Melbourne, in Victoria, is the second oldest university in Australia (the University of Sydney is the oldest). ...

Reference

• Paul Kruty. "Griffin, Marion Lucy Mahony", American National Biography Online Feb. 2000.

External links

• About Mahony's contribution as an artist and architect
• Biographical notes at MIT