FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT'S LIGHT SCREENS: The influence of Japan.

Scholars have long identified a Japanese influence on the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, [1] even though he is well known for his insistence that his architecture and design were completely his own, without precedent. Yet examples of Japanese art and architecture were so widespread in the United States by the time Wright began work in 1886 that it is very difficult to imagine how they could not have affected him. [2] Furthermore, he himself was a brilliant and prominent collector of Japanese art, espedaily prints. [3] After visiting Japan for the first time in early 1905,…