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'''Marion Lucy Mahony Griffin''' (born [[February 14]] [[1871]] in [[Chicago]], died [[August 10]] [[1961]] in Chicago) was an [[United States|American]] artist and one of the first licenced female [[architect]]s in the world. She is considered a member of the [[Prairie School]].
Mahony graduated from [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] in 1894 and went to work the next year in the Chicago studio of [[Frank Lloyd Wright]], designing [[furniture]], [[stained glass]] windows and decorative panels. She would stay in Wright's studio for almost fifteen years and was an important contributor to his reputation, particularly for the influential [[Wasmuth Portfolio]]. Architectural writer [[Reyner Banham]] called her the "greatest architectural delineator of her generation". When Wright disappeared to Europe in 1909, Mahony worked with architect Hermann Von Holst, who had taken on Wright's commissions, and oversaw the completion of a number of his unfinished commissions. Two examples of these included [[Henry Ford]]'s [[Dearborn, Michigan|Dearborn]] mansion, [[Fair Lane]] and the ''Amberg House'' in [[Grand Rapids, Michigan]]. Mahony recommended to Von Holst that he hire Griffin to develop a landscape plan for the area surrounding the three houses initially commissioned from Wright
Mahony married [[Walter Burley Griffin]] in 1911, beginning a partnership that would last for 28 years. Griffin was a fellow architect, a fellow ex-employee of Wright, and a fellow member of the [[Prairie School]] of [[architecture]]. Her [[watercolor]] perspectives of her husband's design for the new [[Australia]]n capital city of [[Canberra]] helped him secure first prize in the international competition for the plan of the city. In 1914 they moved to Australia to oversee the design of the new capital.
Architectural drawings--primarily created by Mahony--and other archival materials by and about the Griffins are held by numerous institutions in the United States, including the Drawings and Archives Department of [[Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library]] at [[Columbia University]]; the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art at [[Northwestern University]]; [[The Art Institute of Chicago]]; and the [[New-York Historical Society]], as well as by several repositories in Australia, including the [[National Library of Australia]], [[National Archives of Australia]], and the Newman College Archives of [[the University of Melbourne]].
==References==
*Paul Kruty. "Griffin, Marion Lucy Mahony", American National Biography Online Feb. 2000.
==Further Reading==
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