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John Geiger applied 72 categories of purpose to 1,125 Frank Lloyd Wright commissions. Classifications include 18 types of housing, 17 forms of civic buildings including churches, 29 terms for commercial structures, and 7 kinds of site planning, with other categories for decorative accessories, farm buildings, and site improvements. The categories of "Automobile" and "Patent" have been added to include in the results several types of projects not categorized by Geiger.

Frank Lloyd Wright Project Drawing Detail


House for Mrs. Owen D. Young at "San Marcos-in-the-Desert", project [Chandler, Arizona] (1927)

Drawing: Well known perspective

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 2707.002

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: 3
Scale: Not given.
Media: Linen with graphite pencil.
Drawing measurements: 32" x 24"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: Yes.

Notes and comments: (a) This is probably the original presentation perspective. #2707.001 drawing by Jack Howe is a tracing. (Howe does not assign #2707.001 in his list of Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1887-1901 (Volume 1)2 assignments) John W. Geiger 04/12/96

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 285] in Hitchcock, Henry-Russell, In the Nature of Materials: The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright 1887-1941 (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1942).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [page 7] in Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly: 2005, Vol. 16, No. 1 (Phoenix, Arizona: Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, 2005).

Appears as a color illustration [Figure or plate 138, page 113] in De Long, David G., Frank Lloyd Wright: Designs for an American Landscape (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1996).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 90] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph, In His Renderings 1887-1959 (Volume 12) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1984).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [page 39] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Drawings: Masterworks from the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives (New York: Harry H. Abrams Inc., 1990).

Appears as a color illustration [page 39] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Drawings: Masterworks from the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives (New York: Harry H. Abrams Inc., 1990).

Appears as a color illustration [Figure or plate 17b] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Treasures of Taliesin: Seventy-Six Unbuilt Designs (Southern Illinois University Press, 1985).