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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 Mr. and Mrs. N. L. Bell, "Hillcrown", project [Los Angeles, California] (1939)

Drawing: Perspective

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 3908.014

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: Publication.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper, unspecified; colored pencil.
Drawing measurements: 33 x 20"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: Yes.
Principal delineation attributed to: Wright, Frank Lloyd
Source of attribution: Curtis W. Besinger record (See: Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph Annotated Lists of Drawings)

Notes and comments: (a) "Signed in red square at bottom left: FLLW/July 1/39" Arthur Drexler, The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright (New York: Horizon Press, 1962) (b) Looks like FLLW. It is his foliage and the drawing is too fuzzy for Howe. John W. Geiger 04/15/96

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 158] 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 108, page 78] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1936-1941 (Volume 6) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1986).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 111] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph, In His Renderings 1887-1959 (Volume 12) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1984).