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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. John C. Pew [Madison, Wisconsin] (1938)

Drawing: Perspective from the rght below; earlier brick scheme

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 4012.001

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: Publication.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper, unspecified; colored pencil.
Drawing measurements: 36 x 20"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.
Principal delineation attributed to: Howe, John

Notes and comments: (a) Different perspective from .002; more finished and probably by Jack Howe. .002 shows a lot of work by FLLW. This drawing does not. Maybe some of the scribbled shrubery. John W. Geiger 01/17/98

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 13.2, page 110] in Sprague, Paul E. (editor), Frank Lloyd Wright and Madison: Eight Decades of Artistic and Social Interaction (Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin, 1990).

Appears as a color illustration [Figure or plate 88, page 64] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1936-1941 (Volume 6) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1986).

Appears as a color illustration [Figure or plate 118, page 72] in Lipman, Jonathan, and Levine, Neil, The Wright State: Frank Lloyd Wright In Wisconsin (Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Milwaukee Art Museum, 1992).