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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


Building for the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA), scheme 1, project), Scheme #1 [Racine, Wisconsin] (1949)

Drawing: Interior perspective

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 4920.001

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: Working Drawings.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper, unspecified; colored pencil.
Drawing measurements: 36 x 25"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: Yes.
Principal delineation attributed to: Besinger, Curtis
Source of attribution: Curtis W. Besinger record (See: Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph Annotated Lists of Drawings)

Notes and comments: (a) Howe says Davidson in Monograph, Vol #7, but Besinger is correct. I know for a fact that Besnger did this drawing. John W. Geiger 05/15/96

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a color illustration [page 220] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright: The Complete Works 1943-1959 (Volume 3) (Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2009).

Appears as a color illustration [page 326] in Wright, Frank Lloyd, Frank Lloyd Wright: Collected Writings Volume 4, 1939-1349 (New York: Rizzoli, 1994).

Appears as a color illustration [Figure or plate 49b] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Treasures of Taliesin: Seventy-Six Unbuilt Designs (Southern Illinois University Press, 1985).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 529, page 271] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1942-1950 (Volume 7) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1988).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 157] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph, In His Renderings 1887-1959 (Volume 12) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1984).