View Looking West Over the City, 1909 Plan of Chicago — Art Hub

Jules Guerin, delineator American, 1866-1946 Edward Herbert Bennett, architect American, born England, 1874-1954 Daniel Hudson Burnham, architect American, 1846-1912

View Looking West Over the City, 1909 Plan of Chicago

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Jules Guerin, delineator American, 1866-1946 Edward Herbert Bennett, architect American, born England, 1874-1954 Daniel Hudson Burnham, architect American, 1846-19121907

View Looking West Over the City, 1909 Plan of Chicago

Jules Guerin, delineator American, 1866-1946 Edward Herbert Bennett, architect American, born England, 1874-1954 Daniel Hudson Burnham, architect American, 1846-1912 →

20th Centurypresentation drawingarchitectural drawing

Date

1907

Medium

Watercolor and graphite on paper

Dimensions

140 × 230 cm (55 × 90 1/2 in.)

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Location

Chicago, IL

Credit

Gift of Patrick Shaw

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.

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