THE GEIGER DATABASE


SEARCH OPTIONS
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT PROJECT DRAWINGS

SOBRIQUETS

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, Apartment Towers, Shops, and Theater for Roy S. Thurman, project [Washington, D.C.] (1940)

Drawing: Aerial perspective from sharp corner

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 4016.001

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: Publication.

Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper, unspecified; ink.

Drawing measurements: 35 x 24"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: Yes.
Principal delineation attributed to: Howe, John

Notes and comments: (a) "Foliage by FLLW" John H. Howe record (b) "J. H. Howe, FLLW, C. B." Curtis W. Besinger record (c) "Signed in red square at lower left: FLLW/38" Arthur Drexler, The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright (New York: Horizon Press, 1962)

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a color illustration [page 440] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright: The Complete Works 1917-1942 (Volume 2) (Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2010).

Appears as an illustration [Figure or plate 411] in Hitchcock, Henry-Russell, In the Nature of Materials: The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright 1887-1941 (Boston, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 1978).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 411] in Hitchcock, Henry-Russell, In the Nature of Materials: The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright 1887-1941 (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1942).

Appears as a color illustration [Figure or plate 321, page 281] in Riley, Terence and Reed, Peter (editors), Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1994).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [page 146] in Wright, Frank Lloyd, Frank Lloyd Wright: Collected Writings Volume 5, 1949-1959 (New York: Rizzoli, 1995).

Appears as a color illustration [page 248] in Cleary, Richard (editor), Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward (New York: Skira/ Rizzoli, 2009).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [page 192] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Drawings: Masterworks from the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives (New York: Harry H. Abrams Inc., 1990).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 24b] 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 178] 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.