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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


Apartments for the Edgar J. Kaufman Charitable Trust, "Point View Residences", scheme 1, project [Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania] (1952)

Drawing: Perspective from the Northeast; below the hill

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 5222.001

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; brown ink.

Drawing measurements: 30 x 36"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: Yes.
Principal delineation attributed to: Besinger, Curtis

Notes and comments: Arthur Drexler, The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright (New York: Horizon Press, 1962) gives this drawing a signing date of June/53,

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a color illustration [page 305] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright: The Complete Works 1943-1959 (Volume 3) (Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2009).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 248] 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 119, page 60] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1951-1959 (Volume 8) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1988).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [page 172] in Wright, Frank Lloyd, Frank Lloyd Wright: Collected Writings Volume 5, 1949-1959 (New York: Rizzoli, 1995).

Appears as a color illustration [page 167] in Cleary, Richard, Merchant Prince and Master Builder: Edgar J. Kaufmann and Frank Lloyd Wright (Seattle, Washington: Universitry of Washington Press, 1999).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [page 78] 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 55a] 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 21, page 105] in Menocal, Narcisso (editor), Wright Studies, Volume Two: Fallingwater and Pittsburgh (Southern Illinois University Press, 2000).