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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


Research Laboratory for S. C. Johnson and Son Company [Racine, Wisconsin] (1944)

Drawing: North elevation, scheme C

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 4401.011

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: Preliminary/Presentation.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper: Tracing paper, vellum with graphite pencil; colored pencil.
Drawing measurements: 19 x 35"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.

Protetch: This drawing is recorded as having been for sale by art dealer Max Protetch during the 1980S; may appear listed in Frank Lloyd Wright, Drawings from 1893-1959 Exhibition And Sales for the Preservation of Taliesin [1983].

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a color illustration [page 1205] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright: The Complete Works 1917-1942 (Volume 2) (Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2010).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 236, page 176] 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 219] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright, The Heroic Years: 1920-1932 (New York: Rizzoli, 2009).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 20, page 3] in Protetch, Max, The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright: 5 May through 6 June, 1987 (New York: Max Protech Gallery, 1987). Note by John Geiger: (Catalog listing drawings for sale)

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 15, page 96] in Menocal, Narcisso (editor), Wright Studies, Volume Two: Fallingwater and Pittsburgh (Southern Illinois University Press, 2000).