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Frank Lloyd Wright Project Drawing Detail


Drafting Room for the Taliesin Fellowship Complex [Spring Green, Wisconsin] (1933)

Drawing: Interior perspective of the drafting room

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 3301.132

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: Reprographic print, blueline.
Drawing measurements: Not recorded.
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.

Notes and comments: (a) Interior perspective showing trusses without any of the 'extra' members that were added and with a vertical support from the base (foot) to the bottom cord of the truss. John W. Geiger 01/16/98

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a color illustration [page 229] 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 216, page 130] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1924-1935 (Volume 5) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1985).