[Portrait of Marion Mahony Griffin, 1871-1961, taken ca. 1935] [picture]
- Bib ID:
- 36871
- Format:
- Picture
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- ca. 1935
- 1 photograph : sepia toned ; 14.7 x 10.1 cm.
- Series:
- Portraits of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin 1918, 1935.
- Biography/History:
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Marion Mahony Griffin was the second woman to graduate in architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1894. She subsequently worked in the office of architect Frank Lloyd Wright with Walter Burley Griffin whom she married in 1911. In 1898 Mahony Griffin became the first woman in the world to be licensed to practise as an architect. An exceptionally talented draftswoman, she was responsible for the perspective drawings which accompanied Walter Burley Griffin's entry for the 1912 design competition for the new Australian capital.--Reference: National Capital Authority, Canberra.
- Notes:
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- Title devised by cataloguer from information on compacatus card.
- Part of collection: Portraits of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin 1918, 1935.
- Condition: Good.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-140407810
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Architects
- Exhibited:
- Exhibited: "In a New Light 2", National Library of Australia, 2 December 2004 - 28 March 2005.
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Portraits of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin 1918, 1935.
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Created/Published Date is Before 1955
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- Material type:
- Photograph
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1935
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