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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. Herbert Jacobs 2, "Solar Hemicycle" [Middleton, Wisconsin] (1944)

Drawing: Perspective from garden side

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 4812.004

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: Working Drawings.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper, unspecified.
Drawing measurements: Not recorded.
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.
Principal delineation attributed to: Hill, John deKoven

Notes and comments: (a) This perspective is probably by John Hill who replaced Jack Howe in the drafting room during the war. It looks like his rather etherial style with hollyocks by Wright. John W. Geiger 12/24/01

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 16.2, page 128] in Sprague, Paul E. (editor), Frank Lloyd Wright and Madison: Eight Decades of Artistic and Social Interaction (Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin, 1990).