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FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, POSSIBLY A STUDY FOR THE GEORGE STEWART HOUSE, MONTECITO, CALIFORNIA, CIRCA 1909
Details
An Architectural Drawing
Frank Lloyd Wright, Possibly a Study for the George Stewart house, Montecito, California, circa 1909
pencil and colored crayon on brown paper
26 x 16in. (66 x 40.8cm.)
signed u/l Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect and bearing the inscription MR. FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT GIFT TO THE DEPARTMENT, with two labels on reverse Fischer Fine Art Limited, London F 11, 168 and Turske & Turske 3122 K.
Frank Lloyd Wright, Possibly a Study for the George Stewart house, Montecito, California, circa 1909
pencil and colored crayon on brown paper
26 x 16in. (66 x 40.8cm.)
signed u/l Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect and bearing the inscription MR. FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT GIFT TO THE DEPARTMENT, with two labels on reverse Fischer Fine Art Limited, London F 11, 168 and Turske & Turske 3122 K.
Provenance
Texas A&M University, College of Architecture and Environmental Design, The Chicago Architecture Foundation
Fischer Fine Art, Limited, London
Christie's New York, December 10, 1988, lot 114
Fischer Fine Art, Limited, London
Christie's New York, December 10, 1988, lot 114
Literature
This drawing is illustrated in The Prairie School Review, Volume IV, Number 4, Fourth Quarter, 1967. The drawing is described as "reminiscent of the Hardy house at Racine, Wisconsin. It may be an early study for the George Stewart house at Santa Barbara, California".
Exhibited
Chicago, Illinois, Chicago Architecture Foundation, an exhibition celebrating 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.