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More than 100 Frank Lloyd Wright commissions have special place names (e.g. "Hollyhock House" or "Fallingwater"). These titles were often bestowed by Wright on his designs but some were applied by clients. Only Wright projects with nicknames appear in this search.

Frank Lloyd Wright Project Drawing Detail


Hotel for Rogers Lacy, "The Lone Star", project [Dallas, Texas] (1947)

Drawing: Perspective looking down into open interior court

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 4606.011

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: Working Drawings.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper, unspecified; colored pencil; Japanese silk? paper. Graphite and ink front, color back.
Drawing measurements: 30 x 46"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: Yes.
Principal delineation attributed to: Besinger, Curtis
Source of attribution: John H. Howe record (See: Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph Annotated Lists of Drawings)

Notes and comments: (a) "perspective drawn by C. B. modified by J. Howe on rightside to eliminate distortion." Curtis W. Besinger record. (b) Besinger comment on "silk" paper on large perspective (.001) would probably apply here as well. John W. Geiger 04/30/96

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a color illustration [page 99] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright: The Complete Works 1943-1959 (Volume 3) (Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2009).

Appears as a color illustration [page 7] in Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly: 2004, Vol. 15, No. 3 (Phoenix, Arizona: Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, 2002).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 36, page 63] in Cleary, Richard, Merchant Prince and Master Builder: Edgar J. Kaufmann and Frank Lloyd Wright (Seattle, Washington: Universitry of Washington Press, 1999).

Appears as a color illustration [page 263] in Wright, Frank Lloyd, Frank Lloyd Wright: Collected Writings Volume 4, 1939-1349 (New York: Rizzoli, 1994).

Appears as a color illustration [Figure or plate 36c] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Treasures of Taliesin: Seventy-Six Unbuilt Designs (Southern Illinois University Press, 1985).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 9, page 91] in Menocal, Narcisso (editor), Wright Studies, Volume Two: Fallingwater and Pittsburgh (Southern Illinois University Press, 2000).

Appears as a color illustration [Figure or plate 142] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph, In His Renderings 1887-1959 (Volume 12) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1984).