Modern Views: A Project To Benefit The Farnsworth House And Glass House

NEW YORK, NY.- The National Trust for Historic Preservation announced that 100 works donated to the Modern Views project to benefit the Mies van der Rohe’s 1951 Farnsworth House in Plano, Illinois and Philip Johnson’s 1949 Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut will be sold at Sotheby’s. The Modern Views project leadership invited a global slate of participants to create and donate a drawing, sculpture , painting or other artwork, accompanied by a short statement that captures how these two iconic buildings inspire their work. Among the works to be auctioned are examples of leading artists and architects of the 20th century as well as emerging and leading contemporary artists of the 21st century including -David Adjaye, Asymptote,Tadao Ando, Maarten Baas, Constantin Boym, Vija Celmins, Zaha Hadid, Fritz Haeg, Claes Oldenburg +Coosje van Bruggen, Sheila Hicks, Dirk Lohan, Gary Hilderbrand, Ronald A.

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