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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

House for Ralph Cudney, "Sahuaro", project [Chandler, Arizona] (1929)

Drawing: Main floor plan, preliminary presentation drawing

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 2706.004

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: Preliminary/Study.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper, unspecified; colored pencil.
Drawing measurements: 32 3/4 x 21 3/4"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: Yes.
Principal delineation attributed to: Wright, Lloyd

Notes and comments: (a) The plan usually shown is the one by Jack Howe drawn for Hitchcock, In he Nature of Materials. John W. Geiger 09/06/00 (b) This drawing is by Lloyd Wright. See the lettering. John W. Geiger 11/14/05

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 173, page 164] in Sweeney, Robert L., Wright in Hollywood: Visions of a New Architecture (Princeton, New Jersey: MIT Press, 1994).

Appears as a color illustration [page 186] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright: The Complete Works 1917-1942 (Volume 2) (Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2010).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 203, page 216] in Riley, Terence and Reed, Peter (editors), Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1994).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 140, page 114] in De Long, David G., Frank Lloyd Wright: Designs for an American Landscape (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1996).