Valuable items from the Frank Lloyd Wright Collection of the UB Archives will hit the road over the next few months to take their place in notable exhibitions of the architect's work.

One item is a window from the addition to Tokyo's magnificent and legendary Imperial Hotel, designed by Wright and constructed during 1913-22. It not only is considered to be one of his most brilliant and fluid designs, but its survival of the 1923 Great Kanto earthquake-which razed large sections of Tokyo-marked the Imperial as a rare example of the integration of architecture and engineering into a comprehensive, seismic-design strategy.

Another item, also related to the Wright collection, is a photograph of Isabel Martin, wife of Darwin D. Martin, for whom Wright designed the Martin House complex on Jewett Parkway in Buffalo. She was a client in her own right and oversaw Wright's design of Graycliff, the family's summer home on Lake Erie.

	This photo of Isabel Martin arranging flowers in the Martin House in Buffalo is to be part of a Japan Society exhibit.

The Imperial Hotel window is made of clear and gilded glass and zinc. It will be on loan to the American Craft Museum in New York City for the exhibition "Light Screens: The Leaded Glass of Frank Lloyd Wright," which will open May 10 in New York and run through mid-2003 at venues throughout the United States.

The photograph will be part of the exhibition "The Architect's Other Passion: Frank Lloyd Wright and Japan," to be mounted by the Japan Society from March 22 through July 15 in its headquarters in New York.

Kathleen DeLaney, assistant archivist at UB, says the university's Wright documents, photographs, memorabilia and architectural elements frequently are requested for inclusion in world-class exhibitions here and abroad.

The "Light Screens" exhibit will travel to the Grand Rapids Art Museum in Grand Rapids, Mich.; the Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pa.; Atlanta's High Museum of Art, and the Orange County Art Museum in Newport Beach, Calif.

It will close at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington.

"This exhibit is an important one," DeLaney says, "and it has two significant symposia associated with it. One will take place in New York at the American Craft Museum and Christie's on June 4 and 5. The second will be held in Chicago and in Grand Rapids Oct. 23-24.

"In addition to that," she says, "the window will be featured in a beautiful exhibition catalogue produced by the art-book publisher, Rizzoli, and in a complete catalogue of Wright's leaded-glass window designs by the exhibition's curator, Julie L. Sloan."

The Japan Society exhibition will feature works by Japanese artists collected by Wright, including screen paintings, woodblock prints, textiles and stencils, DeLaney says. It also will present Wright's drawings for various architectural projects and examples of the furniture he designed.

"The title of the UB photo," she says, "is 'Mrs. Darwin D. (Isabel) Martin arranging flowers in south room of Martin House, Buffalo, with Koryusai pillar print on wall.' It will be included in the part of the exhibit reserved for period photographs of Wright interiors with Asian art, autographed letters, catalogues and Wright's publications on Japanese prints."

DeLaney says this exhibition will be curated by Julia Meech, independent scholar and former associate curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, who organized a similar exhibit for the Phoenix Art Museum in 1995.

"Like the American Craft Museum show, the Japan Society exhibit will be accompanied by a high-quality catalogue. In this case, the Japan Society and Harry Abrams Inc., publisher of high-quality art books, will produce a 300-page, fully illustrated book," she says.

"There also will be an ambitious lecture series associated with the show that will address the far-reaching influence of Wright's interest in Japan and the influence of Japanese aesthetics and design on modern architecture and the visual arts."