View Looking West Over the City, 1909 Plan of Chicago
Date:
1907
Artist:
Jules Guerin, delineator American, 1866-1946 Edward Herbert Bennett, architect American, born England, 1874-1954 Daniel Hudson Burnham, architect American, 1846-1912
About this artwork
Architects Daniel H. Burnham and Edward H. Bennett created a master plan for Chicago published in 1909 proposing that Chicago could be as beautiful as any European city as well as commercially successful. Spectacular presentation drawings were executed to help convey the ideas in the Plan of Chicago. Some of the most beautiful visions for the future city were executed by New York renderer Jules Guérin.
View Looking West Over the City, 1909 Plan of Chicago
Place
Chicago (Place depicted)
Date
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Initialed and dated at right center edge, "G.J. Dec-1907"
Dimensions
140 × 230 cm (55 × 90 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Patrick Shaw
Reference Number
1991.1381
Extended information about this artwork
Burnham, Daniel H. and Edward H. Bennett, ed. Charles Moore. Plan of Chicago. Chicago: The Commercial Club of Chicago, 1908, plate 87. Also see 1993 reprint by Princeton Architectural Press.
Art Institute of Chicago, 1979. Plan of Chicago: 1909-1979. Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago, cat. no. 87, p. 36.
Zukowsky, John, and Martha Thorne. 2004. Masterpieces of Chicago Architecture. Art Institute of Chicago/Rizzoli, pp. 54–55.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Past Forward: Architecture and Design Collection at the Art Institute,” September 12, 2017 – January 21, 2018.
The Art Institute of Chicago Burnham Library, “Plan of Chicago: 1909-1979,” Dec. 8, 1979–Nov. 30, 1970, cat. no. 87.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Chicago Architecture and Design, 1872-1922: Birth of a Metropolis,” cat. no. 228, plate 78; traveled to Paris, Musée d’Orsay, Oct. 2, 1987–Jan. 4, 1988; Frankfurt am Main, Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Feb. 5-Apr. 25, 1988; and The Art Institute of Chicago, July 16–Sept. 5, 1988.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Chicago’s Dream, A World’s Treasure,” 1993.
Paris, Centre de Creation Industrielle (CCI), Centre Georges Pompidou, “Visions Urbaines, 1870-1990,” Feb. 9–May 9, 1994.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “D.H. Burnham and Mid-American Classicism,” 1996.
Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, “At the End of the Century: One Hundred Years of Architecture,” 1998-2000.
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