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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


Exhibition Usonian House for the Museum of Modern Art, project [New York, New York] (1940)

Drawing: Floor plan and mat (foundation?) plan

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 4010.002

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: Frank Lloyd Wright Archives.
Drawing Type: Preliminary/Conceptual.
Sheet Number: 2
Scale: 1/4" = 1' - 0".
Media: Paper: Tracing paper, vellum with black ink.
Drawing measurements: 27 x 36"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: Yes.
Principal delineation attributed to: Howe, John
Date Range
Date created: circa 06/01/40.
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) Howe claims sheets #4 and #5 as published in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks and Futagawa, Yukio. Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1937-1941 (Volume 6) Tokyo: A.D.A. Edita, 1986), so I have given him credit for the entire set of drawings. John W. Geiger 02/06/05

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 11, page 196] in ----, The Show to End All Shows: Frank Lloyd Wright and The Museum of Modern Art (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2004).

Appears as a color illustration [page 442] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright: The Complete Works 1917-1942 (Volume 2) (Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2010).