Drawn From the Masters

Original prints and drawings by legendary architects from Daniel Burnham and Louis Sullivan to Frank Lloyd Wright and Bruce Goff. Included are vintage photographs of Prairie masterpieces by one of the first photographers of Frank Lloyd Wright, Henry Fuermann and Sons.

For Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright and Daniel Burnham, the drafting board was an artist's easel. Their greatest drawings led to some of the world's most extraordinary buildings. Scotland's Mackintosh competed with Europe's finest architects in designing the ultimate House for an Art Lover in 1901. Sinuous graphite sketches by Sullivan led to organic bronze motifs that adorned many of his 19th Century buildings.

Wright's landmark Wasmuth Portfolio, published in 1910 Berlin, was his response to Japanese woodblock prints. And Burnham started sketching dreamlike pastels of the lakefront 13 years before his Chicago Plan of 1909.

For the first time, ArchiTech Gallery has assembled rare original prints and drawings by these and other master architects, including Mies van der Rohe, Viollet-le-Duc and Bruce Goff. This exhibition, of special interest to collectors of important architectural design, opens at ArchiTech on Friday, April 27th.

More Images are available on our Artists Biographies Pages.