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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


Automobile with Cantilevered Top, project [] (1920)

Drawing: Plan and two eleations

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 2001.001

Note: Records a category devised by Geiger to classify the types of decorative arts designs found in Frank Lloyd Wright projects. These terms were applied consistently through a choice list on Column [DECORATIVE ARTS] in Table MMTFDRAWINGS FILE.

Drawing held by: Frank Lloyd Wright Archives.
Drawing Type: Preliminary/Presentation.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper: Tracing paper, vellum with graphite pencil.
Drawing measurements: 27" x 16'
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.
Decorative Arts category: Automobile Related.

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a color illustration [page 59] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright: The Complete Works 1917-1942 (Volume 2) (Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2010).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 334, page 199] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1914-1923 (Volume 4) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1985).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [page 20] in Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly: 2010, Vol. 21, No. 2 (Phoenix, Arizona: Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, 2009).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [page 44] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright, The Heroic Years: 1920-1932 (New York: Rizzoli, 2009).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [page 246] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Drawings: Masterworks from the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives (New York: Harry H. Abrams Inc., 1990).