View Looking West Over the City, 1909 Plan of Chicago
Jules Guérin
1907
- Medium
- Watercolor and graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 140 × 230 cm (55 × 90 1/2 in.)
- Genre
- presentation drawing
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
graphitearchitectureplanarchitectural drawingillinoiscity scenesChicagowatercolorlakepresentation drawingHarbor20th Centurypaper (fiber product)drawingurban plan
About
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.
