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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: Perspective and perspective plan

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 2706.002

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: Canadian Center.
Drawing Type: Preliminary/Presentation.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper: Tracing paper, vellum with graphite pencil; colored pencil.
Drawing measurements: 42" x 27"
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].

Notes and comments: "Details of the design are not yet resolved in this preleiminary perspective study. Compare the treatment of the terrace spanning a stream, at the left, with the two following drawings. (#2704.004 and 2704.005)" Arthur Drexler, The Drawings of Frank Llo

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 87] 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 139, page 114] in De Long, David G., Frank Lloyd Wright: Designs for an American Landscape (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1996).