Marion Mahony Griffin
American, 1871–1961
World Fellowship Center. Conway, New Hampshire
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Marion Mahony Griffin
American, 1871–19611942
World Fellowship Center. Conway, New Hampshire
Marion Mahony Griffin American, 1871–1961 →20th Centurypresentation drawingarchitectural drawing
Date
1942
Medium
Black and red ink on linen
Dimensions
90.7 × 87.2 cm (35 3/4 × 34 3/8 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Marion Mahony Griffin through Eric Nicholls
Though she is most known for her Prairie School designs, Marion Mahony Griffin devoted herself to writing and progressive causes in the late 1930s and ’40s. Working with American pacifist and feminist Lola Maverick Lloyd, Mahony Griffin planned a large, unrealized retreat center for the peace organization World Fellowship of Faiths. Intended to celebrate the power of individuals to pursue peace after the trauma of the war, Griffin’s geometric design blends a colony of cottages and recreational facilities into the topography of the landscape.
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