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Frank Lloyd Wright produced projects for sites located in 48 American states and 10 foreign countries. Some unbuilt projects, graphics designs, and publications do not have locations given in the archival record and are absent in this search.

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT DRAWING DETAIL


House for Aline Barnsdall, project [Beverly Hills, California] (1920)

Drawing: Elevation

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 2009.021

Note: Drawing number assignments shown without question marks are compliant with the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives drawing inventory as of 2011. Drawing number assignments with question marks may represent attempts by John Geiger to order chronologically Wright project drawings which appeared in publications or are held in other collections within the master sequence of the Wright Archives inventory.

Drawing held by: Library of Congress.
Drawing Type: Prelimiinary.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper with black ink; colored pencil.
Drawing measurements: 512 1/8 x 27"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.
Principal delineation attributed to: Wright, Frank Lloyd
Date Range
Date created: circa 1923.
Revision Dates: Not recorded.

Note: A variety of dates are provided for some drawings. These can include fuzzy or circa dating information, and a series of up to 5 dates of revision to the drawing. Sometimes a source of attribution for the dates is indicated, most often given as the last name of an author to indicate a publication.

Notes and comments: (a) The Library of Congress collection was donated by former draftsman Donald Walker. Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer accuses Walker of taking 100 drawings when he left Taliesin in 1929? "The Karfick Tapes" edited by Bradley Storer, John W. Geiger Archive

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a color illustration [Figure or plate 197, page 211] in Riley, Terence and Reed, Peter (editors), Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1994).

Appears as a color illustration [page 78] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright, The Heroic Years: 1920-1932 (New York: Rizzoli, 2009).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 5-1041, page 188] in Aguar, Charles E. and Berdeanna, Wrightscapes: Frank Lloyd Wright's Landscape Designs (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002).