# Frank Lloyd Wright artist context and auction value notes

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## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1867-06-08
- Death date: 1959-04-09
- Nationality: American
- Movements: Prairie School, Organic architecture
- Common media: Architecture and urban design, Interior and furniture design, Art glass windows, Works on paper and prints, Decorative art and editions

## Portrait

![Frank Lloyd Wright](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Frank_Lloyd_Wright_portrait.jpg/1280px-Frank_Lloyd_Wright_portrait.jpg)
New York World-Telegram and the Sun staff photographer: Al Ravenna · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frank_Lloyd_Wright_portrait.jpg

## About Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator whose career extended for more than seven decades. After working in Chicago, notably in the practice of Adler and Sullivan, he established an independent practice in 1893 and became the leading figure associated with the Prairie School. Houses such as the Ward W. Willits House and Frederick C. Robie House used open plans, broad horizontal lines, and cantilevers that responded to the Midwestern landscape. Wright developed these ideas into an approach commonly called organic architecture, joining buildings closely to their sites while treating interiors, furnishings, color, and art glass as parts of a unified design. Collectors may encounter his name beyond architectural landmarks through furniture and interior designs, art glass, works on paper, prints, decorative objects, and editions. Because these objects span different media and production contexts, identifying exactly what was designed, produced, published, or attributed to Wright is central to responsible cataloguing and appraisal.

## Common works and media

Collectors may encounter Wright-related architectural and interior designs, furniture, art glass, works on paper, prints, decorative art, and editions. His museum-documented practice treated buildings, sites, interiors, furnishings, and colored glass as an integrated whole. Auction classifications are broad, however, and an object's exact medium, date, edition status, inscriptions, provenance, condition, and attribution should be established before it is compared with other sales.

## Market and appraisal context

Frank Lloyd Wright auction records span works on paper, prints, decorative art, editions, and other object categories, so a market-wide result should not substitute for a closely matched comparison. Appraisal should begin by identifying the medium, dimensions, date, and relationship to Wright's career and design practice. Condition, restoration, signatures, inscriptions, edition information, provenance, exhibition history, catalogue references, and confidence in the attribution can all affect comparability. Recent public sales are most useful when the lots share the same object type, period, size, condition, and attribution status. Reported prices may use different fee conventions, while private transactions, incomplete feeds, and later attribution changes may remain outside the available record; unsupported price forecasts should therefore be avoided.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine researched identity information with matched public auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Private sales, incomplete feeds, fee conventions, and attribution changes may limit direct comparisons.

## Sources

- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/6459
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/028638115
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/27148716/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5604
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500020307
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/frank-lloyd-wright/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Lloyd_Wright