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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


Country House, Studio, and Farm for Frank Lloyd Wright, "Taliesin" (Taliesin I) [Spring Green, Wisconsin] (1911)

Drawing: Aerial perspective from original entrance drive

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 1104.?22

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/Presentation.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper, unspecified; and grey wash on tracing cloth. (Arthur Drexler, The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright (New York: Horizon Press, 1962)).
Drawing measurements: 38" x 38 "
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.
Principal delineation attributed to: Brodelle, Emil

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 40] 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 125, page 171] in Riley, Terence and Reed, Peter (editors), Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1994).

Appears as a color illustration [page 128] in Cleary, Richard (editor), Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward (New York: Skira/ Rizzoli, 2009).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [page 26] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Drawings: Masterworks from the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives (New York: Harry H. Abrams Inc., 1990).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 5, page 7] in Menocal, Narcisso (editor), Wright Studies, Volume One: Taliesin 1911-1914 (Southern Illinois University Press, 1991).