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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 Mr. and Mrs. John Nesbitt, "Sea Garden", project [Carmel, California] (1940)

Drawing: Perspective from below at garden side

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 4017.003

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: Publication.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper, unspecified; colored pencil; brown ink.
Drawing measurements: 48 x 21"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: Yes.
Principal delineation attributed to: Howe, John

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 189] 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 [page 429] 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 [page 41] in Wright, Frank Lloyd, Frank Lloyd Wright: Collected Writings Volume 4, 1939-1349 (New York: Rizzoli, 1994).

Appears as a color illustration [Figure or plate 23a] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Treasures of Taliesin: Seventy-Six Unbuilt Designs (Southern Illinois University Press, 1985).