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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 Ralph Cudney, "Sahuaro", project [Chandler, Arizona] (1929)

Drawing: Aerial prespective

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 2706.007

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/Conceptual.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper: Tracing paper, vellum with graphite pencil; colored pencil; pastel.
Drawing measurements: 26 3/4" x 16 1/8"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: Yes.
Principal delineation attributed to: Wright, Lloyd
Source of attribution: John H. Howe record (See: Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph Annotated Lists of Drawings)

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a color illustration [page 7] in Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly: 2005, Vol. 16, No. 1 (Phoenix, Arizona: Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, 2005).

Appears as a color illustration [page 178] 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 88] 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 an illustration [Figure or plate 91] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph, In His Renderings 1887-1959 (Volume 12) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1984).