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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


Poster for Traveling Exhibition, "The Work of Frank Lloyd Wright", graphic design [] (1930)

Drawing: Poster for Exhibition, US tour, to the Young Man in Architecture

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 3000.003

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: 16 x 29"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.
Decorative Arts category: Decorative Accessories/Graphics/Poster.

Notes and comments: (a) It look as if this poster was done at the same time as the black and white renderings of the Larkin Building by Henry Klumb. It also has a the quality of European graphics being done at this time. John W. Geiger 12/20/01

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 7, page 17] in ----, The Show to End All Shows: Frank Lloyd Wright and The Museum of Modern Art (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2004).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [page 201] 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 [page 179] in Wright, Frank Lloyd, Frank Lloyd Wright: Collected Writings Volume 3 1931-1939 (New York: Rizzoli, 1993).