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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

Exhibition Usonian House for the Museum of Modern Art, project [New York, New York] (1940)

Drawing: Cross sections and workspace plan

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 4010.005

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.
Sheet Number: 5
Scale: 1/4" = 1'' - 0".
Media: Paper with black ink.
Drawing measurements: 27 x 36"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: Yes.
Principal delineation attributed to: Howe, John
Date Range
Date created: circa 06/01/40.
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) Howe claims sheets #4 and #5 as published in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks and Futagawa, Yukio. Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1937-1941 (Volume 6) Tokyo: A.D.A. Edita, 1986), so I have given him credit for the entire set of drawings. John W. Geiger 02/06/05

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 14, page 199] in ----, The Show to End All Shows: Frank Lloyd Wright and The Museum of Modern Art (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2004).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 393, page 269] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1936-1941 (Volume 6) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1986).