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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


Administration Building for S. C. Johnson and Son Company [Racine, Wisconsin] (1936)

Drawing: Perspective from corner

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 3601.002

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.
Drawing measurements: 33 x 18"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.
Principal delineation attributed to: Howe, John
Source of attribution: John H. Howe record (See: Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph Annotated Lists of Drawings)

Notes and comments: There are two drawings mounted on one board. #.002 is a ground level perspective and .003 a aerial perspective. John W. Geiger 04/18/96

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 245] 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 254, page 244] 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 [Figure or plate 84, page 57] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph Preliminary Studies, 1933-1959 (Volume 11) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1987).

Appears as a color illustration [page 24] in Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly: 2002, Vol. 13, No. 1 (Phoenix, Arizona: Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, 2002). Note by John Geiger: This publication is after restoration of the drawings

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [page 20] in Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly: 2009, Vol. 20, No. 2 (Phoenix, Arizona: Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, 2009).

Appears as a color illustration [page 248] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Drawings: Masterworks from the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives (New York: Harry H. Abrams Inc., 1990).