Alfred on the Taliesin Roof is one of the most intimate and personally treasured works in Jessica's entire body of art — a small drawing originally created as a birthday card for her beloved father, Alfred Bush, discovered years later pressed between the pages of a book while cleaning out the childhood home that Alfred himself designed and built. It is a work born of love, memory, and the deep bond between a daughter and her extraordinary father.
 
Alfred Bush was an apprentice to the legendary Frank Lloyd Wright — one of the most visionary architects in American history — and worked alongside Mr. Wright during the building of Taliesin West in Arizona in the 1940s, Wright's iconic desert masterpiece that remains one of the great achievements of organic architecture. A published black and white photograph from that era captured Alfred on a ladder, working on the roof structure — young, strong, and fully in his element — and it is this image that Jessica translated into her own abstract, deeply felt artistic language.
 
Created on textured, natural-toned paper — its warm, earthy ground evoking both the Arizona desert and the organic materiality of Wright's own architectural philosophy — the drawing is rendered in colored pencil and pastel with Jessica's signature combination of bold figuration and geometric abstraction. Alfred's form rises at the center of the composition, muscular and dynamic, arms raised to the dramatic angular roof structure above him — a figure of physical and creative power caught in a moment of pure, joyful work. Around him, geometric lines of cobalt blue and white trace the angular architectural forms of Taliesin's celebrated roof, while a burst of cadmium yellow blazes at the right — the Arizona sun, the light of memory, the warmth of a creative presence.
 
This is a work about legacy — architectural and artistic, personal and universal. It is a daughter's tribute to a father who shaped not just buildings but the very way she sees and moves through the world.
 
For the discerning collector, Alfred on the Taliesin Roof is a rare and deeply moving fine art print — a work of extraordinary personal history that connects the great tradition of American architectural modernism with the intimate language of family love and artistic memory. It is a natural conversation piece for a living room, library, studio, or any curated space where art is chosen for its power to honor, remember, and inspire.
 
Available as a signed, limited edition giclée print — just 50 pieces per size — in 8"×9.75", 12"×14.5", and 16"×19.5".