Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Wells House, project, Long Lake, Minnesota, Perspective
Frank Lloyd Wright
American, 1867–1959
1946
A perspective rendering in graphite and colored crayon on tracing paper in which Frank Lloyd Wright presents a low, glass-and-wood lakeside house to show how the building sits within and extends the landscape.
The eye is drawn along a long, hovering roofline and delicate glass walls that seem to dissolve into softly sketched trees and lawns, where warm crayon washes and fine graphite lines fuse building and site into an airy, integrated scene.
This postwar Usonian proposal distills Wright’s commitment to low, site-specific houses that blur indoors and out, helping to define the vocabulary of modern domestic architecture in the mid-twentieth century.
Medium
Graphite and color crayon on tracing paper
Dimensions
24 x 35 1/2" (61 x 90.2 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Edgar Kaufmann, Jr.
Accession
459.1972
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