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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: Drawing of the Smiling Sprite

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 1401.013

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.
Drawing measurements: Not recorded.
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.
Decorative Arts category: Decorative Accessories/Sculpture/Cast/Terra cotta/plastr.

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a color illustration [page 490] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright: The Complete Works 1943-1959 (Volume 3) (Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2009).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 10.10, page 204] in Alofsin, Anthony, Frank Lloyd Wright: Europe and Beyond (Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1999).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 628, page 311] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1951-1959 (Volume 8) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1988).

Appears as a color illustration [page 11] in Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly: 2006, Vol. 17, No. 4 (Phoenix, Arizona: Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, 2006).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [page 164] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Drawings: Masterworks from the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives (New York: Harry H. Abrams Inc., 1990).