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Drawing, Embroidered Drapes for Lower Floor Windows, 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 beige 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

24.5 x 25.1 cm (9 5/8 x 9 7/8 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, upper right: Embroidered/ Drapes for/ Allen's lower floor/ windows (all underlined); on design: #1/#2/#3 (all underlined)

Cite this object as

Drawing, Embroidered Drapes for Lower Floor Windows, 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 beige tracing paper; 24.5 x 25.1 cm (9 5/8 x 9 7/8 in.); Museum purchase from Smithsonian Regents Collections Acquisition and Friends of Drawings and Prints Funds; 1983-1-10

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