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Architects’ and Designers’ Papers

A work made of manuscripts, typescript papers, correspondence, printed papers, ephemera, photocopies, architectural reprographic prints, photographs, transparencies and negatives..

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  • A work made of manuscripts, typescript papers, correspondence, printed papers, ephemera, photocopies, architectural reprographic prints, photographs, transparencies and negatives..

Date:

1767-2018 (bulk 1889-2017)

Artist:

Thomas Chippendale (c.1709-1779)
William Ferguson Deknatel (1907-1973)
George Grant Elmslie (1871-1952)
Inigo Jones (1573-1652)
William Keck (1908-1995)
Philip B. Maher (1894-1981)
Pier Luigi Nervi (1891-1979)
Richard Neutra (1892-1970)
Richard Nickel (1928-1972)
Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903)
Irving K. Pond (1857-1939)
H.H. Richardson (1838-1886)
Christopher Wren (1632-1723)

About this artwork

This collection of correspondence, lectures, and autobiographical documents from noted American and European architects and designers includes material from and relating to Thomas Chippendale, William Ferguson Deknatel, George Grant Elmslie, Inigo Jones, John Howells Mead, William Keck, Philip B. Maher, Pier Luigi Nervi, Richard Neutra, Richard Nickel, Frederick Law Olmsted, Irving K. Pond, Ralph Renwick, H.H. Richardson, and Christopher Wren. The collection is an aggregate of numerous small collections from various sources.

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Status

Currently Off View

Department

AIC Archives

Artist

Thomas Chippendale, I

Title

Architects’ and Designers’ Papers

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

Made 1767–2018

Medium

Manuscripts, typescript papers, correspondence, printed papers, ephemera, photocopies, architectural reprographic prints, photographs, transparencies and negatives.

Dimensions

34 boxes, 6 portfolios, 6 oversize portfolios and flatfile materials: W.: 701.1 cm (276 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of various sources, including Susan Bennett, Jacques C. Brownson, Robert Alan Bowlby, Catherine Bruck, Albert de Sauty, Barry Goldberg, Herb Greene, Wilbert Hasbrouck, Thomas Heinz, Elizabeth Wright Ingraham, David Jameson, the Family of Gertrude Lempp Kerbis (2018), Harold B. Olin, Mrs. Evelyn E. Padorr and Mrs. Helene Segil, Mrs. Gordon L. Pirie, Martha Richmond, Deever Rockwell, Frances Rose (2006), Anne Royston (2016), Richard E. Schmidt, Seegers Family, Carl Sterner, Thomas Eddy Tallmadge, Mrs. Theodore Tieken, Dora Nothnagel Thomas, Thomas G. Yanul, the Erdmann Schmocker Estate, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and other anonymous and private sources.

Reference Number

00.5

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