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FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT COMMISSIONS

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Specifications Writer

One of the most encompassing approaches by John Geiger to the study of Frank Lloyd Wright commissions was the creation of 10 data tables that provided places to record project coordinator, preliminary drawing coordinator, working drawings coordinator, specifications writer, structural engineer, mechanical engineer, electrical engineer, landscape design, supervising apprentice during construction, and building contractor. Then, drawings for the commission were listed. While such level of detail was usually not available to Geiger, this search represents a refined model for the study of the design and building process that other researchers may want to carry forward. Only Wright commissions having information recorded for these categories of contribution are returned in this search, showing a total of 299 records.

Frank Lloyd Wright Project Drawing Detail

Midway Gardens for Edward C. Waller and Oscar Friedman, scheme 2 [Chicago, Illinois] (1913)

Drawing: Aerial perspective from entrance side

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 1401.007

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: Tracing paper, vellum with graphite pencil; watercolor; pink (on balloons) and blue wash (on water), mounted. Drexl.
Drawing measurements: 40 x 17"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.

Notes and comments: (a) "Lettered at bottom left: "First sketch of Midway Gardens:, 1913 FLLW." Arthur Drexler, The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright (New York: Horizon Press, 1962) (b) Notation probably made in the 50''s John W. Geiger 04/6/96

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 48] 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 [Figure or plate 143, page 108] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph Preliminary Studies, 1889-1916 (Volume 9) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1985).

Appears as a color illustration [page 26] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright, The Heroic Years: 1920-1932 (New York: Rizzoli, 2009).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [page 140] in Cleary, Richard (editor), Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward (New York: Skira/ Rizzoli, 2009).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [page 178] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Drawings: Masterworks from the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives (New York: Harry H. Abrams Inc., 1990).