NYDA86-F14
Creator: Sullivan, Louis H., 1856-1924.
Uniform Title: Ornament drawings. 1885
Title: [Ornamental study] 12.18.85 [graphic] : Sprague no. 23.
Publication Data: Dec. 18, [18]85.
Physical Description Of Original: 1 drawing : pencil on paper ; 27.5 x 17.6cm. (10 3/4 x 7 in.)
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- Public Note:
- Title from Sprague, no. 23; drawing attributed to Sullivan. Sprague attributes crop notes to Frank Lloyd Wright. Forms part of the Frank Lloyd Wright collection of drawings by Louis Henry Sullivan. "12.18.85. Motif"-- ms. iscription.
- Public Note:
- Drawing is on verso of Sprague No. 25A (NYDA.1965.001.00022V.).
- Public Note:
- According to Louis Sullivan: his life and work / Robert C. Twombly, 1 986, this drawing was done while Sullivan was a principal member of the firm of Adler & Sullivan.
- Public Note: Citation:
- Sprague, Paul E. The drawings of Louis Henry Sullivan (Princeton, N.J . : Princeton Univ. Press, 1979).
- Public Note: Provenance:
- Gift of the Edgar Kaufmann Charitable Foundation, 1965.
- Public Note:
- Reproduced in Wright's Genius andf the mobocracy (1949, 1971), with the caption: "Plasticity. Study for terra cotta. 1885"
- Generic Subject:
- Ornament. aat
- Genre/Form:
- Architectural drawings--American. aat Detail drawings. aat Ornament drawings. aat
- Generic Subject:
- Architecture--Designs and plans--United States.
- Added Creator:
- Adler & Sullivan.
- Collection:
- The Frank Lloyd Wright collection of drawings by Louis Henry Sullivan .
- Added Creator:
- Plasticity. Study for terra cotta.
- Added Creator:
- Pencil drawings. aat
- Added Creator:
- Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.
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- 1965.001.00022
- NYDA.1965.001.00022R. AVERYimage .
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