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Drawing, Portable Lamp for Living Room, Henry J. Allen Residence, Wichita, Kansas
This is a Drawing. It was architect: Frank Lloyd Wright and designed by George Mann Niedecken 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 white 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
32.6 x 20.3 cm (12 13/16 x 8 in.)
It is inscribed
Inscribed in graphite, right: LIVING RM. PORT. LAMP/ FOR MR. H.J. ALLEN/ NIEDECKEN - WALBRIDGE CO/ INTERIOR ARCHITECTS (all underlined); left: SHADE - 20" IN DIA./ OVERALL HEIGHT - 31" DIA OF BASE - 11" (all underlined); below design: 2 of these (all underlined).
Cite this object as
Drawing, Portable Lamp for Living Room, Henry J. Allen Residence, Wichita, Kansas; Designed by George Mann Niedecken (1878–1945); Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright (American, 1867–1959); Client: Henry J. Allen, Elsie J. Nuzman (Mrs. Henry J.) Allen; USA; graphite, color pencil on white tracing paper; 32.6 x 20.3 cm (12 13/16 x 8 in.); Museum purchase from Smithsonian Regents Collections Acquisition and Friends of Drawings and Prints Funds; 1983-1-17
