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1923

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1983

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Drawing, Couch, Henry J. Allen Residence, Wichita, Kansas

This is a Drawing. It was architect: Frank Lloyd Wright. It is dated 1923 and we acquired it in 1983. Its medium is graphite on cream tracing paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase from Smithsonian Regents Collections Acquisition and Friends of Drawings and Prints Funds.

Its dimensions are

20.1 x 37.5 cm (7 15/16 x 14 3/4 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, across top: 8' 0" long outside (all underlined); across center: about 6' 8" (all underlined); across bottom: legs like Adolph Mueller (all underlined); bottom right: Mr. H. J. Allen (all underlined).

Cite this object as

Drawing, Couch, Henry J. Allen Residence, Wichita, Kansas; Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright (American, 1867–1959); USA; graphite on cream tracing paper; 20.1 x 37.5 cm (7 15/16 x 14 3/4 in.); Museum purchase from Smithsonian Regents Collections Acquisition and Friends of Drawings and Prints Funds; 1983-1-34

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