Minneapolis Institute of Art

Urn

Designer: Frank Lloyd Wright; James A. Miller & Brothers

Date

c. 1903

Medium

Sheet copper

Department

Arts of the Americas

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Imagine this urn full of natural grasses, ferns, and other native Midwestern plants, prominently displayed in a home. Frank Lloyd Wright often celebrated local plants by bringing them inside, literally grounding a house to its site and blurring the border between indoors and outdoors. Created from molded and hand-hammered copper panels joined together, this spherical urn repeats the simple geometric forms in its circle-in-square decoration. The painterly cherry-red patina, or surface treatment, softens the strong form and would have complemented the natural colors of the plants United States, Americas

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