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FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT PROJECT DRAWINGS

TYPE OF OCCUPANCY

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


Winter Home and Studio for Frank Lloyd Wright, "Taliesin West" [Scottsdale, Arizona] ()

Drawing: Theater at rear of office, section Z-Z

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 3803.002

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.
Scale: 3/4" = 1' = 0".
Media: Paper: Art with black ink.
Drawing measurements: 36 x 29"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.
Date Range
Date created: circa 1949.
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: Should be archive #4926. Theater, cabaret. I am under the impression that I did, or at least worked on, these drawings but I really don't remember to what extent. I believe Besinger also claims authorship. John W. Geiger c. 1994. The passage overhead

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 121, page 79] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph Preliminary Studies, 1933-1959 (Volume 11) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1987).

Appears as a color illustration [page 300] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright: The Masterworks (New York: Rizzoli, 1993).