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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: Elevation, very sketchy, by FLLW

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 2706.001

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: Preliminary/Study.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper, unspecified; colored pencil.
Drawing measurements: 31" x 19"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.
Principal delineation attributed to: Wright, Frank Lloyd
Source of attribution: John H. Howe record (See: Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph Annotated Lists of Drawings)

Notes and comments: "With this rapid sketch Wright established the character of the Cudney house, projected, like the Young house, for the San Marcos hotel." Arthur Drexler, The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright (New York: Horizon Press, 1962).

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 86] 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 black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 193, page 148] 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 38] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Drawings: Masterworks from the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives (New York: Harry H. Abrams Inc., 1990).