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Drawing, Living Room Furniture, Henry J. Allen Residence, Wichita, Kansas

This is a Drawing. It was architect: Frank Lloyd Wright and made for (as the client) Henry J. Allen and Elsie J. Nuzman (Mrs. Henry J.) Allen. It is dated 1917 and we acquired it in 1983. Its medium is graphite, color pencil 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

24.6 x 49 cm (9 11/16 x 19 5/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, center: LIVING ROOM ... SECONDARY TABLE/ WITH MUSIC CABINET BELOW/ TOP 42" X 42" HEIGHT 30"/ SCALE 1 1/2" = 1' 0" (all underlined); right: HALL OPEN TABOURET/ HEIGHT 35"/ TOP 15" X 15" (all underlined); in ruled borders, lower right: LIVING ROOM FURNITURE/ DESIGNED FOR MR. H. J. ALLEN/ NIEDECKEN-WALBRIGE CO./ INTERIOR ARCHITECTS SCALE 1 1/2" = 1' 0" (all underlined); inscribed on designers: INLAY/ WOOD PANEL (all underlined); variously inscribed in graphite: #4/ O.K./ 1 of these/ #3 (all underlined); in blue graphite, left and right: detailed Dec. 7, '17 (all underlined)

Cite this object as

Drawing, Living Room Furniture, Henry J. Allen Residence, Wichita, Kansas; Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright (American, 1867–1959); Client: Henry J. Allen, Elsie J. Nuzman (Mrs. Henry J.) Allen; USA; graphite, color pencil on cream tracing paper; 24.6 x 49 cm (9 11/16 x 19 5/16 in.); Museum purchase from Smithsonian Regents Collections Acquisition and Friends of Drawings and Prints Funds; 1983-1-14

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