About This Artwork

Murphy/Jahn Architects, architect; American, founded 1973
Michael Budilovsky, delineator; American, born Ukraine, 1928
Helmut Jahn, delineator; German, born 1940

Northwestern Terminal Tower: Exploded Axonometric Rendering of Madison Street Elevation, 1982

Airbrushed ink on resin coated paper
162.88 x 104.14 cm
Dated and signed CR "NWT. H. Jahn 6.....82"
Anonymous gift, 1982.629

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Architects Design, 1982, plate 8.

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Architecture and Design, 1872-1922: Birth of a Metropolis, cat. no. 53; 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, Chicago Skyscrapers, 1990–1991 (no cat.)

Publication History

Art Institute of Chicago. 1982. Chicago Architects Design: A Century of Architectural Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago. Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago/Rizzoli, plate 8, p. 14.

Zukowsky, John (ed.). 1993. Chicago Architecture and Design, 1923–1993: Reconfiguration of an American Metropolis. Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago/Prestel, cat. no. 53.

Zukowsky, John, and Martha Thorne. 2004. Masterpieces of Chicago Architecture. Art Institute of Chicago/Rizzoli, p. 162.