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FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT COMMISSIONS

CONTRIBUTING SPECIALIZATIONS:
Structural Engineer

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

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum [New York, New York] (1944)

Drawing: Elevation

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 4305.005

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/Presentation.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper: Tracing paper, vellum with graphite pencil; colored pencil; opaque cream colored paper. (Arthur Drexler, The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright (New York: Horizon Press, 1962)).
Drawing measurements: 20 x 20"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.
Principal delineation attributed to: Berndtson, Peter

Protetch: This drawing is recorded as having been for sale by art dealer Max Protetch during the 1980S; may appear listed in Frank Lloyd Wright, Drawings from 1893-1959 Exhibition And Sales for the Preservation of Taliesin [1983].

Notes and comments: "This version differs from the preceeding study (.004) in showing seven turns of the ramp rather than six, accomplished within the same over-all height by reducing the height for each gallery level." Arthur Drexler, The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright (Ne

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 191] 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 16, page 3] in Protetch, Max, The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright: 5 May through 6 June, 1987 (New York: Max Protech Gallery, 1987). Note by John Geiger: (Catalog listing drawings for sale)