PERIOD ORIGINAL, FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT AUTHENTIC DRAFT DRAWING OF J. CHRISTIE HOUSE SHEET 8 SCHEDULE OF WALLS AND SASH UNITS. CIRCA 1940- 1941 FROM THE PRIVATE COLLECTION OF LOCH CRANE. PROVENANCE, ESTATE OF LOCH CRANE TALIESIN APPRENTICE – AND JESSE CAREY CARAWAY ARCHIVE THIS WAS PART OF THE WRIGHT EXPO IN SAN DIEGO. THIS SHOULD BE A MUSEUM PIECE VERY EARLY DRAWING. MEASURES APROXIMATELY 36 X 33. MINOR PAPER LOSS AND MINOR STAINING. THIS PROJECT WAS SIGNED BY APPRENTICE LOCH CRANE. FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT WOULD DO THE PRELIMINARY DRAWING AND ASSIGN THE PROJECT TO HIS APPRENTICES, AFTER THE FINAL REVISIONS HE WOULD OK AND SIGN THE PROOF. Several of them, including Vincent Bonini, Frederick Liebhardt, Loch Crane, Sim Bruce Richards and Bill Slatton, established their professional practices in San Diego. In addition to these focal studies, the work of Frank Lloyd Wright and his two sons Lloyd and John was presented. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Legacy in San Diego: the Taliesin Apprentices framed this remarkably rich portfolio of work with architectural drawings, photographs, and ephemera to demonstrate the power of Wright’s. The exhibition displayed, for the first time in San Diego, Frank Lloyd Wright’s unbuilt designs for the region. Curated by Keith York. Major funding for this exhibition provided by Ray and Ellen Merewether with additional support from Nick and Lamya Agelidis, Elizabeth Courtier — Willis Allen Real Estate, Ike Kligerman Barkley Architects P. John and Diane Kane, Luce et Studio, Margie Warner and John H. Donald and Jeannette Yeckel, Artworks San Diego, and. Institutional support provided by the City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture and the Members of the La Jolla Historical Society. Betty Edwards, Charles E. Young Research Library at UCLA, Loch Crane, Shannon Wehsener, the Bonini Family, Louise McWhorter, Darren Bradley, Elizabeth von Beck Archives, the Liebhardt Family, the Richards Family, Jonathan Schmock, and Private Collections for the loans and reproduction rights that made this exhibition possible.
