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A PRESENTATION DRAWING IN PENCIL, WATERCOLOR AND GOUACHE ON PAPER THE RENDERING BY MARION MAHONEY PROBABLY FOR FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT'S CHARLES E. BROWN HOUSE, EVANSTON, ILLINOIS, 1905
Depicting a two story structure faced in stucco, having double hung windows and featuring landscaping incorporating evergreens, deciduous trees and stands of hollyhocks, the whole set off center within a broken border in the style of a Japanese print, the renderer's stylized monogram c/1 along the border--12in. x 25 1/2in. (30.5cm. x 64.8cm.)
This drawing presents several inconsistencies in style and convention with Wright's usual work including the double hung windows and the heavy texturing of the stucco. The Brown house was, however, one of the few built with double hung windows although the house was faced with clapboard rather than stucco when completed. Another inconsistency is exhibited in Mahoney's handling of the trees which is unlike those used in Wright's office on a regular basis. A partial explanation could be Wright's absence from his office in 1905 while making his first trip to Japan.
Depicting a two story structure faced in stucco, having double hung windows and featuring landscaping incorporating evergreens, deciduous trees and stands of hollyhocks, the whole set off center within a broken border in the style of a Japanese print, the renderer's stylized monogram c/1 along the border--12in. x 25 1/2in. (30.5cm. x 64.8cm.)
This drawing presents several inconsistencies in style and convention with Wright's usual work including the double hung windows and the heavy texturing of the stucco. The Brown house was, however, one of the few built with double hung windows although the house was faced with clapboard rather than stucco when completed. Another inconsistency is exhibited in Mahoney's handling of the trees which is unlike those used in Wright's office on a regular basis. A partial explanation could be Wright's absence from his office in 1905 while making his first trip to Japan.
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cf. Arthur Drexler, The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright, The Museum of Modern Art, Horizon Press, New York, 1962, plate 35 illustrating Mahoney's rendering of Wright's K.C. De Rhodes house, South Bend, Indiana, 1906 using her maiden initials "MLM" and inscribed "Drawn by Mahoney - After F. Ll. W. and Hiroshige"; and Brian Spencer, The Prairie School Tradition, Whitney Library of Design, New York, 1979, p. 156 for an example of Mahoney's renderings from her later period when she was working with her husband Walter Burley Griffin and using the initials "MMG"