......finished drawings in the series, all colored pencil, all on 14 x 17 paper.
The drawings are of architectural details that can be seen from the Elevated train (the El as we call it) or the station platforms. You get a much better view of some detail that you can't really see from the street.
9th in the series. The Shops Building at 17 N. Wabash at the new Washington and Wabash stop. Built in 1875 but the white terracotta was installed in a renovation in 1912 by architect Alfred S. Alschuler
1st in the series, from the Harold Washington Library stop. "Ceres" sculpture by Raymond Kaskey on the facade of the Harold Washington Library building, built in 1994
(colored pencil 10" x 17")
prints available here
8th in the series. The State & Lake building, 190 N. State, is currently the home of the ABC television studios. It was built in 1917, Rapp & Rapp architects. It was originally the State & Lake Theater.
(colored pencil, 11 1/2 in. x 15 3/4 in.)
7th in my Architectural Detail series... the lions on the facade of the Continental & Commercial National Bank Building at the Quincy El stop. Built in 1914 this historic bank building is now a Marriot hotel.
This drawing is a little larger than the others in the series. It is 18" x 24" (colored pencil)
once I get a proper scan, this too will be available as a print
6th in the series, a column from the County Building (118 N. Clark) built in 1906.
"Holabird & Roche used the classical Corinthian order with colonnades of outsized, purely decorative, 75-foot high columns. Each column was nine feet in diameter and hollow with twelve foot tall capitals—the largest in the world at the time."
(colored pencil, 10" x 16")
prints available here
4th in the series at the LaSalle St. stop. This 2 story building at 400 S. Clark was built in 1898, architect unknown. The background has detail from the Metropolitan Correction Center across the street.
(colored pencil 8.5" x 16")
prints available here
3rd in the series, as seen from the Washington & Wells stop. White Terracotta installed by the American Terracotta and Ceramic Co. on the facade of 180 W. Washington, built in 1927/28 by the architectural firm of Hyland & Corse.
from the book by Joseph and Sandra Korom,
Chicago Street People: An Architectural Survey
"2.5
180 West Washington Street Building, originally Equitable Life Insurance Building, 180 West Washington Street, completed 1929, Hyland & Corse, architects. Material: terra cotta by American Terra Cotta and Ceramic Company. Few, if any, Chicago buildings possess any more frightening images than this, the head of Medusa. In Greek mythology, one of the Gorgons, Medusa in this case, was punished by having her hair turned into multiple snakes and her face horribly disfigured. According to the myth, anyone who views this creature would be immediately turned to stone. Here Medusa is encircled by a ribbon, anthemion, and an egg and dart ring all of it in polychrome terra cotta."
(colored pencil 10" x 17")
prints available here
2nd in the series, at the South East corner of the loop, after the Harold Washington stop and heading toward the Adams & Wabash stop on the Brown Line. Colonettes from the Second Leiter Building, built in 1891. what some of us think of as the old Sears building.
(colored pencil 10" x 17")
prints available here
