Rock Crest/Rock Glen: Perspective Rendering, c. 1912
Lithograph and gouache on green satin
59 x 201 cm
Gift of Marion Mahony Griffin through Eric Nicholls, 1988.182
Architecture and Design
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Art Institute of Chicago, Walter Burley Griffin , Marion Mahony Griffin: Architectural Drawings in the Burnham Library of Architecture, Sept. 10, 1981-Jan. 31, 1982, cat. no 1.
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Architecture and Design, 1872-1922: Birth of a Metropolis, cat. no. 186; plate 49; traveled to Paris, Musée d'Orsay, Oct. 2, 1987–Jan. 4, 1988; Frankfurt am Main, Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Feb. 5-Apr. 25, 1988; and Art Institute of Chicago, July 16–Sept. 5, 1988.
Art Institute of Chicago, The Prairie School: Design Vision for the Midwest, 1995, cat . no. 10.
Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpieces of Chicago Architecture, Apr. 2004–Sept. 2005, Gallery 24
Publication History
Van Zanten, David T., ed. 1970. Walter Burley Griffin: Selected Designs. Palos Park, IL: Prairie School Press.
Art Institute of Chicago; edited by John Zukowsky. 1981. Walter Burley Griffin, Marion Mahoney Griffin: Architectural Drawings in the Burnham Library of Architecture. Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago, cat. no. 1.
Zukowsky, John, ed. 1987. Chicago Architecture and Design, 1872-1922: Birth of a Metropolis. Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago/Prestel, no. 186; plate no. 49.
Wilson, Richard Guy. 1995. "Prairie School Works in the Department of Architecture at the Art Institute of Chicago." Museum Studies 21(2): 93-111. Cat. no. 10.
The Art Institute of Chicago. 2000. Treasures from the Art Institute of Chicago, selected by James N. Wood with commentaries by Debra N. Mancoff, 1st edition. Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago; New York: Distributed by Hudson Hills Press. Reproduced on p. 245.
Zukowsky, John, and Martha Thorne. 2004. Masterpieces of Chicago Architecture. Art Institute of Chicago/Rizzoli, pp. 56-57.
Wood, Debora, ed. 2005. Marion Mahony Griffin: Drawing the Form of Nature. Exh. cat. Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University Press, p. 12.