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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


Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum [New York, New York] (1944)

Drawing: Elevation

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 4305.005

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/Presentation.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper: Tracing paper, vellum with graphite pencil; colored pencil; opaque cream colored paper. (Arthur Drexler, The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright (New York: Horizon Press, 1962)).
Drawing measurements: 20 x 20"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.
Principal delineation attributed to: Berndtson, Peter

Protetch: This drawing is recorded as having been for sale by art dealer Max Protetch during the 1980S; may appear listed in Frank Lloyd Wright, Drawings from 1893-1959 Exhibition And Sales for the Preservation of Taliesin [1983].

Notes and comments: "This version differs from the preceeding study (.004) in showing seven turns of the ramp rather than six, accomplished within the same over-all height by reducing the height for each gallery level." Arthur Drexler, The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright (Ne

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 191] 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 black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 16, page 3] in Protetch, Max, The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright: 5 May through 6 June, 1987 (New York: Max Protech Gallery, 1987). Note by John Geiger: (Catalog listing drawings for sale)