Playing for Papa I had just purchased a 1943 Baby Grand piano when we moved into a home built in the 1950s obviously by a student of Frank Lloyd Wright. I cried the first time I saw it. © Laurie Pace Graphics One Design 2026 Playing for Papa SOLD by Laurie Pace The house was shaped like a wide, open “U,” turned gently on its side, embracing light and space. The front held a long, curving stone wall with only small windows at each end, giving little hint of what waited inside. A circular drive led you in. The original circular fireplace and built-in seating had been removed before we arrived — a loss that still makes me sigh — but the heart of the home remained. Half walls opened into the music room, where the Baby Grand lived. Ten-foot sliding glass doors looked into the covered inner courtyard, complete with fountains and soaring walls of windows rising nearly twenty feet into the air. Light moved through the...
Laurie Pace Fine Art is a contemporary American painter known for expressive horse paintings, figurative works, florals, and narrative art. Working primarily in oil, and occasionally beginning with acrylic underlayers, Laurie paints intuitively—guided by movement, emotion, faith, and the spirit of the paint itself.