Plate 49 from Plan of Chicago 1909: Chicago. View of the City from Jackson Park to Grant Park, Looking Towards the West. The proposed shore treatment as a park enclosing a waterway (or a series of lagoons) is shown, together with the enlarged yacht harbor, recreation piers, and a scheme for Grant Park.

Daniel Hudson Burnham

1907

Plate 49 from Plan of Chicago 1909: Chicago. View of the City from Jackson Park to Grant Park, Looking Towards the West. The proposed shore treatment as a park enclosing a waterway (or a series of lagoons) is shown, together with the enlarged yacht harbor, recreation piers, and a scheme for Grant Park. by Daniel Hudson Burnham

Medium

Watercolor with graphite on cream wove paper, discolored to tan, laid down on canvas

Dimensions

103.5 × 480 cm (40 3/4 × 189 in.)

Classification

paper

Department

Architecture and Design

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Accession Number

196323

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...

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