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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


House for Richard Lloyd Jones, "Westhope", scheme 1, project [Tulsa, Oklahoma] (1929)

Drawing: Aerial perspective (triangular scheme, #1)

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 2901.002

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/Study.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper, unspecified; colored pencil.
Drawing measurements: 48 x 17"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.

Notes and comments: "The drawing shows an alternate (and unbuilt) version of the Lloyd Jones house, related to the various San Marcos projects in its use of triangles." 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 187, page 186] in Sweeney, Robert L., Wright in Hollywood: Visions of a New Architecture (Princeton, New Jersey: MIT Press, 1994).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 91] 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 color illustration [Figure or plate 235, page 175] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph Preliminary Studies, 1917-1932 (Volume 10) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1986).

Appears as a color illustration [page 192] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright: The Complete Works 1917-1942 (Volume 2) (Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2010).

Appears as a color illustration [page 186] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright, The Heroic Years: 1920-1932 (New York: Rizzoli, 2009).

Appears as a color illustration [Figure or plate 141, page 115] in De Long, David G., Frank Lloyd Wright: Designs for an American Landscape (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1996).