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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

House for Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Schwartz [Two Rivers, Wisconsin] (1938)

Drawing: Aerial perspective from front right

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 3904.001

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: Publication.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper, unspecified; colored pencil; sepia ink.
Drawing measurements: 36 x 14"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: Yes.
Principal delineation attributed to: Howe, John

Notes and comments: (a) Arthur Drexler, The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright (New York: Horizon Press, 1962) has the right drawing number, Fig. 161, but the wrong client number. What he shows in the Life House; not Schwartz. John W. Geiger 04/15/96 (b) "Foliage by FLLW

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a color illustration [page 402] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright: The Complete Works 1917-1942 (Volume 2) (Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2010).

Appears as a color illustration [page 226] 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 114, page 71] in Lipman, Jonathan, and Levine, Neil, The Wright State: Frank Lloyd Wright In Wisconsin (Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Milwaukee Art Museum, 1992).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 161] 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.

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 118] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph, In His Renderings 1887-1959 (Volume 12) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1984).