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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

Country House Reconstruction for Frank Lloyd Wright, "Taliesin" (Taliesin III) [Spring Green, Wisconsin] (1925)

Drawing: Floor plan and elevation on outside entrance to guest deck

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 2501.058

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/Conceptual.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper: Tracing paper, vellum with colored pencil.
Drawing measurements: Not recorded.
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.
Date Range
Date created: circa probably 1943.
Revision Dates: Not recorded.

Note: A variety of dates are provided for some drawings. These can include fuzzy or circa dating information, and a series of up to 5 dates of revision to the drawing. Sometimes a source of attribution for the dates is indicated, most often given as the last name of an author to indicate a publication.

Notes and comments: (a) Besinger in a letter to me dates this stair between 1943 and 1946. Other information dates it closer to 1943. Besinger mentions Wright using the skylight in the kitchen to to explain the skylights in the museum to Guggenheim. John W. Geiger 08/22/

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