FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT (1867-1959)

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ID 880122
Lot 345 | FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT (1867-1959)
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT (1867-1959)

Important Drawing of an Officer's Chair for the S.C. Johnson & Son Administration Building, Racine, Wisconsin, circa 1937

pencil and colored pencil on paper

17 1/2 x 24 in. (44.5 x 60.9 cm) (sight)

30 1/4 x 33 1/4 in. (76.8 x 84.5 cm) (frame)

marked OFFICERS CHAIRS FOR MR H. F. JOHNSON JR. JOHNSON BUILDING / FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT ARCHITECT APRIL 17 1939 (center), with red signature block (lower right), and signed FLW Apr 15 '39 (lower right)





Literature

F. L. Wright, Sixty Years of Living Architecture, New York, 1953, n.p.

Y. Futagawa, A. Isozaki, GA 1: Frank Lloyd Wright, Johnson & Son, Administration Building and Research Tower, Racine, Wisconsin, 1936-9, Tokyo, 1970, pp. 20-21, 24-35

D. Hanks, The Decorative Designs of Frank Lloyd Wright, New York, 1979, p. 151

Frank Lloyd Wright/Steelcase, marketing pamphlet, Grand Rapids, 1981, n.p.

S. Elliot, Frank Lloyd Wright, Chicago, 1981, pp. 41-42

B. B. Pfeiffer, Y. Futagawa, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph: 1924-1936, Tokyo, 1985, pp. 254-255, 246-264 (for a discussion of the commission)

E. Kaufman, Jr., Frank Lloyd Wright at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1985, pp. 40-43

J. Lipman, Frank Lloyd Wright and the Johnson Wax Buildings, New York, 1986, pp. 84-91, 99, 103-108, 111-116, 118-119

T. Eaton, Frank Lloyd Wright, the Seat of Genius, Chairs: 1895-1955, West Palm Beach, 1997, pp. 52-55

D. Maddex, 50 Favorite Furnishings by Frank Lloyd Wright, New York, 1999, pp. 48-49

D. Maddex, 50 Favorite Rooms By Frank Lloyd Wright, New York, 2001, p. 109



Exhibited

Tokyo, Japan, Sezon Museum of Art, Frank Lloyd Wright: Retrospective, 1991

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Milwaukee Art Museum, The Wright State: Frank Lloyd Wright in Wisconsin, September - November 1992, p. 78

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