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Drawing, Day Couch for Mrs. Allen's Boudoir, 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
37 x 45.1 cm (14 9/16 x 17 3/4 in.)
It is inscribed
Inscribed in graphite, between two ruled lines, upper margin w/ red sqaure, left: FURNITURE DETAILS . 8 (all underlined); lower right: DAY COUCH FOR MRS. ALLEN'S BOUDOIR . (all underlined); left center: ELEVATIONS OF DAY-COUCH (all underlined); in Wright's hand, upper left: cover in mohair Sating Henry II/Like drawing - with chairs in same material/think soft grey? ends blue?/frame for back faded cushion/with two vertical braces/detailed Nov. 21 '17/OK (all underlined)
Cite this object as
Drawing, Day Couch for Mrs. Allen's Boudoir, 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 ; 37 x 45.1 cm (14 9/16 x 17 3/4 in.); Museum purchase from Smithsonian Regents Collections Acquisition and Friends of Drawings and Prints Funds; 1983-1-5
