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Frank Lloyd Wright Commission Titles

The information presented here exhibits the extent to which John Geiger considered many points of reference related to a given Frank Lloyd Wright project. Aside from basic information such as title, location, and project date, Geiger extended his interests to types of floor and roof plans, types of construction and building purpose, and where possible the dates of the various stages of development in the design process and construction. Geiger often included citations for bibliographic references as sources for the recorded information in an elaborate but unevenly developed series of attributions.

Frank Lloyd Wright Project Drawing Detail


House for Mr. and Mrs. Ward W. Willits [Highland Park, Illinois] (1902)

Drawing: Perspective from street

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 0208.001

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: Wolf, Erving and Joyce.
Drawing Type: Preliminary/Presentation.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper, unspecified; brown ink; watercolor; gouache and crayon on opaque paper. (Arthur Drexler, The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright (New York: Horizon Press, 1962)).
Drawing measurements: 32 x 8 3/4"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.
Principal delineation attributed to: Mahony, Marion
Source of attribution: John W. Geiger

Notes and comments: (A) "This precise and formal rendering of the Willits House combines a stylistic density of surface and shadow with stylized circular trees. Graduations of tone are worked out so that no two adjacent areas are of the same value." Arthur Drexler, The Dr

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 16] in Drexler, Arthur, The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright (New York: Horizon Press, 1962). Note by John Geiger: Catalog to the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) exhibition.

Appears as a color illustration [Figure or plate 21] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph, In His Renderings 1887-1959 (Volume 12) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1984).

Appears as a color illustration [Figure or plate 47, page 134] 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 56] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright: The Masterworks (New York: Rizzoli, 1993).

Appears as a color illustration [page 14] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright, The Heroic Years: 1920-1932 (New York: Rizzoli, 2009).

Appears as a color illustration [page 98] in Cleary, Richard (editor), Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward (New York: Skira/ Rizzoli, 2009).