Plate 126 from The Plan of Chicago, 1909: Chicago. Section Looking North, Taken through Proposed Grand Axis of the City, Showing the Civic Center and Grant Park.
Medium
pen and black ink and graphite, with watercolor, on cream wove paper, laid down on canvas
Dimensions
29.9 × 276.9 cm (11 3/4 × 109 in.)
Classification
ink
Department
Architecture and Design
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
196371
About the Artist
Daniel Hudson Burnham · 1846–1912
Daniel Hudson Burnham (1846–1912) was one of the most influential American architects and urban planners of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Born in Henderson, New York, he twice failed the entrance examinations for Harvard and Yale, eventually finding his calling through an apprenticeship in architecture. His transformative partnership with John Wellborn Root, formed in Chicago in 1873, establ...