Rock Crest/Rock Glen, Mason City, Iowa, Perspective by Walter Burley Griffin
Art Institute of Chicago

Rock Crest/Rock Glen, Mason City, Iowa, Perspective

Walter Burley Griffin · c. 1912

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "Past Forward: Architecture and Design Collection at the Art Institute," September 12, 2017 – January 21, 2018.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "Walter Burley Griffin, Marion Mahony Griffin: Architectural Drawings in the Burnham Library of Architecture," Sept. 10, 1981-Jan. 31, 1982, cat. no 1.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "Chicago Architecture and Design, 1872-1922: Birth of a Metropolis," cat. no. 186; plate 49; traveled to Paris, Musée d'Orsay, Oct. 2, 1987–Jan. 4, 1988; Frankfurt am Main, Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Feb. 5-Apr. 25, 1988; and The Art Institute of Chicago, July 16–Sept. 5, 1988.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Prairie School: Design Vision for the Midwest," 1995, cat . no. 10.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "Masterpieces of Chicago Architecture," Apr. 2004–Sept. 2005, Gallery 24
  • Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://archive.artic.edu/apostlesbeauty/"><em>Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago</em></a>, Nov. 7, 2009–Jan. 31, 2010, cat. 55.

Literature

Published references

  • Van Zanten, David T., ed. 1970. Walter Burley Griffin: Selected Designs. Palos Park, IL: Prairie School Press.
  • Art Institute of Chicago; edited by John Zukowsky. 1981. Walter Burley Griffin, Marion Mahoney Griffin: Architectural Drawings in the Burnham Library of Architecture. Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago, cat. no. 1.
  • Zukowsky, John, ed. 1987. Chicago Architecture and Design, 1872-1922: Birth of a Metropolis. Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago/Prestel, no. 186; plate no. 49.
  • Wilson, Richard Guy. 1995. "Prairie School Works in the Department of Architecture at the Art Institute of Chicago." Museum Studies 21(2): 93-111. Cat. no. 10.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago. 2000. Treasures from the Art Institute of Chicago, selected by James N. Wood with commentaries by Debra N. Mancoff, 1st edition. Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago; New York: Distributed by Hudson Hills Press. Reproduced on p. 245.
  • Zukowsky, John, and Martha Thorne. 2004. Masterpieces of Chicago Architecture. Art Institute of Chicago/Rizzoli, pp. 56-57.
  • Wood, Debora, ed. 2005. Marion Mahony Griffin: Drawing the Form of Nature. Exh. cat. Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University Press, p. 12.
  • Judith A. Barter, ed., <em>Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), 79–80, 194, cat. 55, fig. 40 (ill.).

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