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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

Press Building for the San Francisco Call, project [San Francisco, California] (1912)

Drawing: Perspective from corner. Better condition than many others of sa

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 1207.001

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: Preliminary/Presentation.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper, unspecified; colored pencil; on silk? Frank Lloyd Wright Archives.
Drawing measurements: 18 x 39"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 45] 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 [page 170] 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 55] 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 188] in Hitchcock, Henry-Russell, In the Nature of Materials: The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright 1887-1941 (Boston, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 1978).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 188] in Hitchcock, Henry-Russell, In the Nature of Materials: The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright 1887-1941 (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1942).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [page 131] in Wright, Frank Lloyd, Frank Lloyd Wright: Collected Writings Volume 1, 1894-1930 (New York: Rizzoli, 1992).

Appears as a color illustration [page 109] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Drawings: Masterworks from the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives (New York: Harry H. Abrams Inc., 1990).