Design and Plan for a City Bisected by Train Tracks
ca. 1900
Medium
Pen and ink, brush and wash
Dimensions
Image: 6 5/16 × 25 3/16 in. (16.1 × 63.9 cm) Sheet: 9 1/8 × 28 1/16 in. (23.2 × 71.2 cm)
Classification
Drawings|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Museum Accession
Accession Number
X.804
Tags
About the Artist
Robert Adams · 1900–1900
Robert Adams, born Robert Hickman Adams on May 8, 1937, in Orange, New Jersey, grew up amid frequent relocations that shaped his deep affinity for the American landscape—from New Jersey to Madison, Wisconsin, and finally to Wheat Ridge, Colorado, in 1952.) Contracting polio at age 12, he recovered but retained a sensitivity to the environment that fueled his later work. After earning a B.A. in Eng...