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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

Playhouse for Mrs. Avery Coonley [Riverside, Illinois] (1912)

Drawing: Three tall windows for the front of the building

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 1201.003

Note: Records a category devised by Geiger to classify the types of decorative arts designs found in Frank Lloyd Wright projects. These terms were applied consistently through a choice list on Column [DECORATIVE ARTS] in Table MMTFDRAWINGS FILE.

Drawing held by: Frank Lloyd Wright Archives.
Drawing Type: Preliminary/Presentation.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper: Illustration board with graphite pencil; colored pencil.
Drawing measurements: 18 x 12"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.
Principal delineation attributed to: Wright, Frank Lloyd
Decorative Arts category: Decorative Accessories/Leaded Glass/Windows.

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 291] in Drexler, Arthur, The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright (New York: Horizon Press, 1962). Note by John Geiger: One of three windows; catalog to the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) exhibition

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [page 245] in Kaufmann, Jr., Edgar, Frank Lloyd Wright: Drawings for a Living Architecture (New York: Horizon Press, 1959).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 13, page 12] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1907-1913 (Volume 3) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1987). Note by John Geiger: Wrong archive # Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks and Futagawa, Yukio. Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1907-1913 (Volume 3) (Tokyo: A.D.A. Edita, 1987), p.12.

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 3, page 13] in Sloan, Julie L., Light Screens: The Complete Leaded-Glass Windows of Frank Lloyd Wright (New York: Rizzoli, 2001).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [page 288] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Drawings: Masterworks from the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives (New York: Harry H. Abrams Inc., 1990).