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Frank Lloyd Wright commissions

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Frank Lloyd Wright lived an exceptionally long and productive professional life. John Geiger was interested in the ebb and flow of architectural commissions in the Wright studio over time. This search shows Wright commissions for given decades and years, though the project dates often imply the completion date for a commission rather than the sometimes lengthy period involved with development of a design. Some entries also refer to drawings made by Wright earlier in his career prior to establishing his own practice.

Frank Lloyd Wright Project Drawing Detail

Wolf Lake Amusement Park, project [Wolf Lake, Indiana] (1895)

Drawing: Aerial perspective: rendered version

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 9510.001

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: No type recorded.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper, unspecified; watercolor; and gold paint on heavy white paper mounted to linen..
Drawing measurements: 49 x 20"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.

Notes and comments: "1895 first evidence of "prairie" architecture." John H. Howe record.

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 3] 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 171, page 83] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1887-1901 (Volume 1) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1986).

Appears as a color illustration [Figure or plate 6] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph, In His Renderings 1887-1959 (Volume 12) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1984).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 37] in Hitchcock, Henry-Russell, In the Nature of Materials: The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright 1887-1941 (Boston, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 1978).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 65, page 86] in Kruty, Paul, Frank Lloyd Wright and Midway Gardens (Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1998).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 37] in Hitchcock, Henry-Russell, In the Nature of Materials: The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright 1887-1941 (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1942).

Appears as a color illustration [Figure or plate 1] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Treasures of Taliesin: Seventy-Six Unbuilt Designs (Southern Illinois University Press, 1985).