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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

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum [New York, New York] (1944)

Drawing: Perspective from straight on at the entrance

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 4305.016

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; colored pencil; sepia ink.
Drawing measurements: 30 x 20"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: Yes.
Principal delineation attributed to: Howe, John

Notes and comments: "Signed in square at bottom right: FLLW/Aug 15/48." "In this version, prepared before the entre site had been acquired, the gallery is placed at the north in order to stand free of adjoining buildings." Arthur Drexler, The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright (

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 196] 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.