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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


Mural and Fire Screen for Hillside, Taliesin Fellowship Complex, project [] (1934)

Drawing: Screen, Wright note says "Fire Screen". Looks like stage screen

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 3404.004

Note: Records a category devised by Geiger to classify the types of decorative arts designs found in Frank Lloyd Wright projects. These terms were applied consistently through a choice list on Column [DECORATIVE ARTS] in Table MMTFDRAWINGS FILE.

Drawing held by: Frank Lloyd Wright Archives.
Drawing Type: Preliminary/Presentation.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper: Tracing paper, vellum with graphite pencil; colored pencil.
Drawing measurements: 38 x 18"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.
Decorative Arts category: Decorative Accessories/GRILLES/SCREENS.

Notes and comments: (a) Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer calls this a "fire screen". I don''t think so. It looks like one of a "pair" of screens used to screen the Playhouse stage prior to the''53 fire. John W. Geiger 12/15/01

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a color illustration [page 240] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright: The Complete Works 1917-1942 (Volume 2) (Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2010).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [page 144] in Wright, Frank Lloyd, Frank Lloyd Wright: Collected Writings Volume 3 1931-1939 (New York: Rizzoli, 1993).