Cover Design for the Lecture Notes of "The Problems of Modern Architecture"
1927-1930
Artist, American, 1869 - 1959

Artwork overview
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Medium
colored pencil on wove paper
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Abdul Huda Farouki)
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Dimensions
sheet: 33.02 × 54.93 cm (13 × 21 5/8 in.)
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Accession
2014.136.218
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Lunn Gallery, Washington, DC); Mr. and Mr. Abdul Huda Farouki, McLean, Virginia; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1984; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1983
Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Smithsonian Institution, New York, 1983-1984
1986
American Masters: Works on Paper from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1986-1988, pp. 72-75, no. 44, repro
2007
Modernism: Designing a New World, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2007
Inscriptions
upper right in red colored pencil: PRINCETON LECTURE / ARCHITECTURE MAY 1930
Markings
embossed along center spine: FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT LECTURE
Wikidata ID
Q64570027