Wedding announcement Wedding announcement of Frank Lloyd Wright and Olgivanna Wright, at Rancho Santa Fe, California, 25 August 1928. “Iovanna. Married, August 25, Rancho Santa Fe, California. Olga Ivanovna, Daughter of Ivan Lazovich and Militza Milan of Gettinje Montenegro, To Frank Lloyd Wright, Son of Anna Lloyd-Jones and William Cary Wright, Taliesin, Wisconsin, 1928.”
Designed and calligraphed by Wright, then photographically printed on vellum or rice paper and laminated to buff-colored card stock. A portrait of their daughter Iovanna Wright at upper left; one portion hand-colored in red (4.5 x 5.5"). Olga and Frank were married on August 25, 1928 at midnight in Rancho Santa Fe near La Jolla. The ceremony was held one year to the day after Wright’s divorce from Miriam Noel Wright, and almost three years after his and Olgivanna’s daughter (shown in the hexagonal portrait) was born out of wedlock. They honeymooned in Phoenix, Arizona at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel.
A book was purchased from the daughter of the Melvyn Maxwell Smith Residence (S.287 1946) designed by Wright in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. The invitation was in the book.
Published in “Many Masks” Gill, 1987, page 301; “Frank Lloyd Wright A Biography” Secrest 1992, page 321; “Frank Lloyd Wright, The Interactive Portfolio” Stipe 2004, page 49 (Facsimile in sleeve).0215.01.1106
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