Tafel LVIII. Grundriss für Herrn Harold McCormick, Lake Forest, Illinois (from the Wasmuth Portfolio)

Frank Lloyd Wright

1910

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This etching is created with black ink on paper. It represents a row of houses along a street. There is a tree immediately in front of the house in the foreground. Leaning on that tree is a collapsing fence, also in front of the house. Beyond the fence is a sidewalk and then a street. A group of figures and a single figure walk in the middle ground on the street. Above the group of figures a power line runs across the street to a power pole with a street light. Power poles and lines run along the opposite side of the street. Houses extend down the street.
A barren field fills the foreground; its far edge is lined with tall weeds. At the center of the image, against a partly cloudy sky, is a billboard that bears the text, “For Sale Lots for Colored Call HE24457 Now”. Beside the sign are wire laden telephone poles.
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