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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: Perspective of right half? Left half is .009

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 9510.008

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: Tracing paper, vellum with graphite pencil.
Drawing measurements: Not recorded.
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.

Protetch: This drawing is recorded as having been for sale by art dealer Max Protetch during the 1980S; may appear listed in Frank Lloyd Wright, Drawings from 1893-1959 Exhibition And Sales for the Preservation of Taliesin [1983].

Notes and comments: (a) Left half of drawing is published Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1887-1901 (Volume 1), p. 82, fig. 170. .009 is probably right half. Drawings are on Protetch list as two drawings. Is .008 still in the archive or was it sold? It is unlikely that one

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a color illustration [Figure or plate 24] 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 1, page 1] in Protetch, Max, The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright,: Drawings from 1893-1959 : Exhibition And Sales for the Preservation of Taliesin (New York: Max Protech Gallery, 1987). Note by John Geiger: Catalog listing drawings for sale 5 May through 6 June 1987

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [page 16] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Drawings: Masterworks from the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives (New York: Harry H. Abrams Inc., 1990).