[House for Mr. and Mrs. Mel Blumberg, Clinton, Iowa. View from southeast] – Vintage Print
![[House for Mr. and Mrs. Mel Blumberg, Clinton, Iowa. View from southeast], [1955] — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/08/08076fbdf447-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This historic drawing of [House for Mr. and Mrs. Mel Blumberg, Clinton, Iowa. View from southeast] brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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[House for Mr. and Mrs. Mel Blumberg, Clinton, Iowa. View from southeast]
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Drawn in 1955 for Mr. and Mrs. Mel Blumberg of Clinton, Iowa, this rendering shows the house from the southeast, with the long horizontal lines and open plan that Frank Lloyd Wright favored in his Usonian houses of the postwar years. Wright designed these homes for middle-income families, often pairing low-pitched roofs with wood and masonry set close to the ground. The drawing is executed in color pencil and graphite on tracing paper, a medium architects used to convey a design's mood and setting before construction. Wright's name appears in the inscription, and the sheet came to the Library of Congress as a 2000 gift as part of the Kenneth H. Walker collection of architectural drawings.
| Created / published | [1955] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : color pencil and graphite on tracing paper. |
| Genre | Architectural drawings 1950-1960. |
| Notes | Inscription on recto: House for Mr. and Mrs. Mel Blumberg, Clinton, Iowa, Frank Lloyd Wright, architect. Title devised by Library staff. Gift; Nancy Hart Glanville; 2000; (DLC/PP-2000:030). Forms part of: Kenneth H. Walker Collection of Architectural Drawings and Renderings. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,672 × 3,714 px · prints to 16 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-223422 |
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