Frank Lloyd Wright, rated in an informal poll by American Institute of Architects as the “greatest American Architect of all time”, designed and build over 500 buildings during his life time. Yet he made more money as an art dealer in Japanese prints than he did as an architect. His importance as an art dealer wasn’t even suspected until 30 years after his death, when the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York re-discovered a stack of paperwork showing an F.L.Wright sold them some of most important items in its japanese art collection.
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