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FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT PROJECT DRAWINGS

DESIGN EVALUATIONS

John Geiger applied a rating system to 714 Frank Lloyd Wright commissions using a numerical range of 10 (highest importance) to 2 (lowest importance), stepped in increments of .5, to express his view of the importance of the designs. Only projects with an evaluation number appear in this search.

Frank Lloyd Wright Project Drawing Detail

Civic Center at Point Park for the Allegheny Conference on Development, scheme 1, project [Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania] (1949)

Drawing: Aerial perspective from the point

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 4821.004

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; brown ink.
Drawing measurements: 37 x 32"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.
Principal delineation attributed to: Howe, John
Source of attribution: John H. Howe record (See: Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph Annotated Lists of Drawings)

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a color illustration [page 111] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright: The Complete Works 1943-1959 (Volume 3) (Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2009).

Appears as a color illustration [page 157] in Cleary, Richard, Merchant Prince and Master Builder: Edgar J. Kaufmann and Frank Lloyd Wright (Seattle, Washington: Universitry of Washington Press, 1999).

Appears as a color illustration [page 145] in Cleary, Richard, Merchant Prince and Master Builder: Edgar J. Kaufmann and Frank Lloyd Wright (Seattle, Washington: Universitry of Washington Press, 1999).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [page 318] in Wright, Frank Lloyd, Frank Lloyd Wright: Collected Writings Volume 4, 1939-1349 (New York: Rizzoli, 1994).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 376, page 196] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1942-1950 (Volume 7) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1988).

Appears as a color illustration [Figure or plate 239, page 163] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph Preliminary Studies, 1933-1959 (Volume 11) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1987).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [page 153] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Drawings: Masterworks from the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives (New York: Harry H. Abrams Inc., 1990).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 43a] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Treasures of Taliesin: Seventy-Six Unbuilt Designs (Southern Illinois University Press, 1985).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 4, page 87] in Menocal, Narcisso (editor), Wright Studies, Volume Two: Fallingwater and Pittsburgh (Southern Illinois University Press, 2000).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 229] 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.