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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


Warehouse for A. D. German [Richland Center, Wisconsin] (1915)

Drawing: Perspective

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 1504.001

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: Wolf, Erving and Joyce.
Drawing Type: Preliminary/Presentation.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper, unspecified; colored pencil; watercolor; black ink.
Drawing measurements: 24" x 22"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.
Principal delineation attributed to: Wright, Lloyd
Source of attribution: John H. Howe record (See: Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph Annotated Lists of Drawings)

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a color illustration [Figure or plate 146, page 184] in Riley, Terence and Reed, Peter (editors), Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1994).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 235, page 234] in Alofsin, Anthony, Frank Lloyd Wright: The Lost Years, 1910-1922 A Study of Influence (Chicago, Illinois: The University of Chicago, 1993).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 53] 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 color illustration [Figure or plate 66] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph, In His Renderings 1887-1959 (Volume 12) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1984).