An Architectural Drawing
An Architectural Drawing

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT FOR SHERMAN M. BOOTH, GLENCOE, ILLINOIS, CIRCA 1915

Details
An Architectural Drawing
Frank Lloyd Wright for Sherman M. Booth, Glencoe, Illinois, circa 1915
pencil and colored pencil on Japanese paper
14 x 30in. (35.5 x 78in. )
bearing the inscription MR. FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT'S GIFT TO THE DEPARTMENT, with two labels on reverse Fischer Fine Art Limited, London F 11, 167 and Turske & Turske 3131 K
Provenance
Texas A&M University, College of Architecture and Envionmental Design, The Chicago Architecture Foundation
Fischer Fine Art, Limited, London
Christie's New York, December 10, 1988, lot 120
Literature
This drawing is illustrated in The Prairie School Review, Volume IV, Number 4, Fourth Quarter 1967, where it is identified as "a perspective of a project for Sherman Booth in Glencoe, Illinois prepared in 1911".
Exhibited
Chicago, Illinois, The Chicago Architecture Foundation, exhbition to celebrate the centennial of the Chicago Chapter AIA, June 1969.
London, England, Fischer Fine Art Limited, Frank Lloyd Wright, Architectural Drawings and Decorative Art, June 27-August 30, 1985. This exhibition traveled to Frankfurt am Main, Deutsches Architekturmuseum, October 18-November 24, 1985; Zurich, Galerie M. Knoedler, December 7, 1985-January 21, 1986; Vienna, Galerie Wrthle, February 4-26, 1986.

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