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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


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

Drawing: Reflected ceiling plan

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 4010.010

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: 10
Scale: 1/4" = 1'' - 0".
Media: Paper: Art with black wash 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 19, page 204] in ----, The Show to End All Shows: Frank Lloyd Wright and The Museum of Modern Art (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2004).