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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
Studio for Frank Lloyd Wright [Oak Park, Illinois] (1895)
Drawing: Leaded glass and furniture or cabinet study for library?
Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 9506.018Note: 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: Not recorded.
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.
Decorative Arts category: Decorative Accessories/Leaded Glass/Windows.
Notes and comments: (a) The cabinet and details look like the library but the leaded glass looks like something else. Much of the drawing is by Wright. John W. Geiger 07/28/02
Bibliographic Citations
Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 8, page 8] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph Preliminary Studies, 1889-1916 (Volume 9) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1985).
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