Early Elevation Study before the Site Had Been Chosen
John Russell Pope
probably 1936
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View on museum website →Medium
graphite
Dimensions
overall: 36.3 x 43.3 cm (14 5/16 x 17 1/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Acquired from Eggers and Higgins, Architects
Accession Number
1984.44.2
About the Artist
John Russell Pope
John Russell Pope (1874–1937) was a preeminent American architect whose monumental neoclassical designs defined much of Washington's monumental core. Born on April 24, 1874, in New York City to portrait painters John Pope and Mary Avery Loomis Pope, he grew up immersed in an artistic milieu that foreshadowed his own career. After initial studies at the City College of New York in 1888 and graduati...