Curator

Art Institute Chicago
Harvard art museum
My Exhibition

Scene in a diner, viewed through wrap-around glass windows, at night on an empty urban street. A light-skinned man and woman, he in a suit and she in a red dress, sit together at a triangular wood bar, eyes downcast. At left sits another man, his back to the viewer. Behind the counter is a light-skinned man in a white uniform. The interior lights cast a yellow glow that spills onto the street in pale green. Above the diner a sign reads, "Phillies."

Nighthawks, 1942

Edward Hopper

A work made of etching on ivory wove paper.

The Evening Wind, 1921

Edward Hopper

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 etching on heavy ivory laid paper.

View of Ponte Lugano on the Anio, from Views of Rome, 1763, published 1800–07

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

An aerial site plan drawing of a park with trees and various nonlinear paths, confined by less-detailed gridded blocks.

Plan of Chicago, Plate 62, Plan of a Proposed Park, 1909

Daniel Hudson Burnham

A work made of gelatin silver print.

City View (North to Telegraph Hill?) San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, April 1906, printed 1956

Arnold Genthe

View of a village surrounded by hills, fields, and trees, shown from a vantage point above the scene. Subtly rolling hills recede into a bluish gray-ish sky punctuated by white clouds. Thick brushstrokes built up atop each other are visible throughout.

Auvers, Panoramic View, 1873–75

Paul Cezanne

Painting of a vast autumn scene with two very small figures in Indigenous clothing standing on a cliff overlooking a massive waterfall in the distance.

Distant View of Niagara Falls, 1830

Thomas Cole

Ecuadorian landscape with people, palm trees, waterfall, and volcano in background.

View of Cotopaxi, 1857

Frederic Edwin Church

A three-dimensional drawing of a housing development viewed from above, constructed on identical blocks that form a grid. Each block features two parallel rectangular buildings and a courtyard between them.

Berlin Development Project, Berlin, Germany, Isometric, c. 1928

Ludwig Karl Hilberseimer

A work made of gelatin silver print.

General View from the Penthouse at 56 Seventh Avenue, New York, July 14, 1937

Berenice Abbott

A work made of etching on heavy ivory laid paper.

Villa Pamphili outside Porta S. Pancrazio, from Views of Rome, 1776, published 1800–07

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

A work made of oil on paper, mounted on canvas.

View of Genoa, 1834

Jean Baptiste Camille Corot

A work made of oil on canvas.

View From an Attic Room, c. 1890

Gustave Loiseau

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Window Draperies, Opera House, Paris, 1984, printed 1985

Algimantas Kezys

A work made of oil on canvas.

View of Delphi with a Procession, 1673

Claude Lorrain

A work made of color woodblock print; aiban, nishiki-e.

Maple Leaf Viewing (Momiji gari), 1794

Tōshūsai Sharaku

A work made of watercolor, with scraping on white wove paper.

View of Lucerne, 1840/41

Joseph Mallord William Turner

A perspective drawing of a city with repeating rectilinear buildings on city blocks connected by bridges with roadways below.

Highrise City (Hochhausstadt), Perspective View, 1924

Ludwig Karl Hilberseimer

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Hotel Nationale, Moscow, 1959, printed 1981

William Klein