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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


Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum [New York, New York] (1944)

Drawing: Perspective; rotunda on right, rendered in white marble

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 4305.749

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.
Drawing measurements: Not recorded.
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.
Principal delineation attributed to: Berndtson, Peter

Notes and comments: (a) Moma gives Berndston credit for .748, the blue hex version, and this drawing appears to be a part of a series and therefore I give Berndston credit for this one also. John W. Geiger 12/22/03

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a color illustration [page 20] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright: The Complete Works 1943-1959 (Volume 3) (Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2009).

Appears as a color illustration [Figure or plate 205, page 134] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph Preliminary Studies, 1933-1959 (Volume 11) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1987).