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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

Unity Temple [Oak Park, Illinois] (1905)

Drawing: Perspective and partial plan in black and white

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 0611.007

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; some blue foliage, on opaque cream-colored paper, Arthur Drexler, The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright (New York: Horizon Press, 1962).
Drawing measurements: 36" x 23"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.
Principal delineation attributed to: Klumb, Henry

Notes and comments: "Signed FLLW on embossed red and white square pasted to lower right; lettered date, 1908." Arthur Drexler, The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright (New York: Horizon Press, 1962)

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 148, page 238] in Siry, Joseph M., Unity Temple: Frank Lloyd Wright and Architecture for Liberal Religion (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1996).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 30] 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.