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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

National Life Insurance Company Office Building, project [Chicago, Illinois] (1924)

Drawing: Perspective from corner (blue color rendering)

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 2404.041

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: Persky, Seymour.
Drawing Type: Preliminary/Study.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper, unspecified; colored pencil; ink.
Drawing measurements: 41 1/2 x 49 1/2"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a color illustration [Figure or plate 205, page 218] in Riley, Terence and Reed, Peter (editors), Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1994).

Appears as a color illustration [page 6] in Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly: 2004, Vol. 15, No. 3 (Phoenix, Arizona: Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, 2002).

Appears as a color illustration [page 240] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright, The Heroic Years: 1920-1932 (New York: Rizzoli, 2009).

Appears as a color illustration [page 105] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright, The Heroic Years: 1920-1932 (New York: Rizzoli, 2009).

Appears as a color illustration [page 351] in Wright, Frank Lloyd, Frank Lloyd Wright: Collected Writings Volume 2, 1930-1932 (New York: Rizzoli, 1992).