View Looking West Over the City, 1909 Plan of Chicago by Jules Guérin
Art Institute of Chicago

View Looking West Over the City, 1909 Plan of Chicago

Jules Guérin · 1907

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 Burnham Library, "Plan of Chicago: 1909-1979," Dec. 8, 1979–Nov. 30, 1970, cat. no. 87.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "Chicago Architecture and Design, 1872-1922: Birth of a Metropolis," cat. no. 228, plate 78; 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, "Chicago's Dream, A World's Treasure," 1993.
  • Paris, Centre de Creation Industrielle (CCI), Centre Georges Pompidou, "Visions Urbaines, 1870-1990," Feb. 9–May 9, 1994.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "D.H. Burnham and Mid-American Classicism," 1996.
  • Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, "At the End of the Century: One Hundred Years of Architecture," 1998-2000.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Architecture and Design rotation, Gallery 285, Sep.10, 2025-Mar. 8, 2026.

Literature

Published references

  • Burnham, Daniel H. and Edward H. Bennett, ed. Charles Moore. Plan of Chicago. Chicago: The Commercial Club of Chicago, 1908, plate 87. Also see 1993 reprint by Princeton Architectural Press.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, 1979. Plan of Chicago: 1909-1979. Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago, cat. no. 87, p. 36.
  • Zukowsky, John, and Martha Thorne. 2004. Masterpieces of Chicago Architecture. Art Institute of Chicago/Rizzoli, pp. 54–55.

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