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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


Midway Gardens for Edward C. Waller and Oscar Friedman, scheme 2 [Chicago, Illinois] (1913)

Drawing: Mural; City by the sea, Midway Gardens, study for color

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 1401.120

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, unspecified; colored pencil; ink, gold; watercolor; crayon.
Drawing measurements: 32 1/2 x 30 7/8"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.
Principal delineation attributed to: Wright, Frank Lloyd

Notes and comments: "Signed lower left: FLLW/1912. Inscribed at bottom: This type of abstract [...] occupied me from 1893 to the present time, FLLW." Arthur Drexler, The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright (New York: Horizon Press, 1962)

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 295] 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 [page 153] in Kaufmann, Jr., Edgar, Frank Lloyd Wright: Drawings for a Living Architecture (New York: Horizon Press, 1959).

Appears as a color illustration [Figure or plate 144, page 182] in Riley, Terence and Reed, Peter (editors), Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1994).

Appears as a color illustration [Figure or plate 469, page 243] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1907-1913 (Volume 3) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1987).

Appears as a color illustration [Figure or plate 178, page 131] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph Preliminary Studies, 1889-1916 (Volume 9) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1985).

Appears as a color illustration [page 289, 290-291] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Drawings: Masterworks from the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives (New York: Harry H. Abrams Inc., 1990).