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A colorful drawing of a site plan for an airport, a plane in the foreground with a cityscape and large lake in the background.

O'Hare Field Master Plan, Illinois, Presentation Drawing, Aerial View, 1952

Ralph Burke Associates

A work made of sandstone.

E. W. Blatchford Residence: Lunette Depicting Autumn, c. 1875/77

Peter Bonnett Wight

ABC Office Building, New York City, New York, Elevation, Plan, and Model View

ABC Office Building, New York City, New York, Elevation, Plan, and Model View, 1988

Bertrand Goldberg

An aerial perspective drawing of a settlement made up of consecutive L-shaped houses with courtyards and surrounding trees.

Settlement Units Density Studies, Aerial Perspective, c. 1943

Ludwig Karl Hilberseimer

A work made of limestone.

Capital with Lions, c. 1125

French

A sepia-tones aerial plan drawing of a park with trees cut by roads and nonlinear paths, confined by less detailed gridded blocks.

Plan of Chicago, Plate 63, Plan of a Proposed Park, 1909

Daniel Hudson Burnham

Large painting of ancient arch ruins, statues, humans are small in comparison.

The Fountains, 1787–88

Hubert Robert

A work made of graphite, watercolor, and gouache on illustration board.

Empire Room Lobby, Palmer House Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, Interior Perspective, 1925

Holabird and Roche

An iron fragment from the façade of a building with ornate organic relief decoration. The top-right corner is missing.

Spandrel Panel from the Gage Building, Chicago, Illinois, 1898–99 (removed 1955)

Louis H. Sullivan

A work made of leaded glass window; clear, green, and opaque glass in lead cames; mounted in black wood frame with plexiglas shield.

Coonley, Avery, House: Leaded Glass Window, 1908

Frank Lloyd Wright

A colored perspective drawing of a populated airport concourse with black and white tile floors and a steel and glass arcade.

United Airlines Terminal: Interior Perspective View of Concourse, 1985

Murphy/Jahn Architects

A work made of oil on canvas.

Spring, 1923–24

Georgia O'Keeffe

A work made of graphite on strathmore paper.

System of Architectural Ornament, Plate 4, Fluent Geometry, 1922

Louis H. Sullivan

An elevation drawing of a strikingly horizontal building with an almost entirely glass facade and passersby in the foreground.

Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, Library and Administration Building Proposal, c. 1944

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

A drawing of the front of a three-story building with arched windows, an arched doorway, and a flat roof. The space above the door reads "Stewart Bentley" with the numbers 114 and 112.

Stewart–Bentley Building, Chicago, Illinois, Elevation and Exterior Wall Section, 1872

Carter, Drake and Wight

A work made of five layers of mahogany, fret sawn.

Schlesinger and Mayer Company Store: Section of a Screen from Third Floor Writing Room, 1899/1904

Louis H. Sullivan

An aerial drawing of a spiral-shaped house with exterior garden, depicted in color and surrounded by brown rock.

Eugene and Nancy Bavinger House, Norman, Oklahoma, Plan of Lower Level, 1950

Bruce Goff

Painting depicting Christ anointed by a woman in yellow, seated centrally at a crowded table of guests with long thin grayish faces in colorful robes with strong white highlights. In the background, tall grey archways, a steepled building, and city architecture.

The Feast in the House of Simon, c. 1608–14

El Greco (Doménikos Theotokópoulos) and workshop

A round, black architectural grille with a spiderweb-like pattern consisting of intricate radiating geometric details.

Circular Ventilator Grille from the Francis Apartments, Chicago, Illinois, 1895 (demolished 1971)

Frank Lloyd Wright

A work made of phyllite.

The Birth and the First Seven Steps of the Buddha, Kushan period, about 2nd/3rd century

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