Portrait of Nathaniel Owings – Historic Photo Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Portrait of Nathaniel Owings
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A mixed-media portrait of Nathaniel Owings, the Chicago architect and co-founder of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, built from acrylic paint, ink, and graphite on a sheet measuring 51 by 61 centimeters. Owings chaired the President's Council on Pennsylvania Avenue, which published its master plan in 1964 to guide the redevelopment of the avenue and the surrounding federal core in Washington. The picture's date is taken from that publication, so it ties the sitter to the city-planning and urban renewal debates of the 1960s, when the capital's monumental core was being reconsidered. The portrait came to the Library of Congress with the Nathaniel Owings Papers, which document his career.
| Created / published | and Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html)." |
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| Medium | 1 item : acrylic paint, ink, and graphite ; in box 51 x 61 cm. |
| Genre | UNIT title devised. Owings was chairman of the President's Council on Pennsylvania Avenue, which published it's master plan in 1964. Date based on date that plan was published. Transfer; Manuscript Division (Nathaniel Owings Papers); 1979; (DLC/PP-1979:318). Forms part of the Nathaniel Alexander Owings Papers, 1911-1983 (Library of Congress). Finding aid (unpublished): Filed by UNIT number, available in Prints and Photographs Reading Room. |
| Subjects | Owings, Nathaniel Alexander,--1903- President's Council on Pennsylvania Avenue (U.S.)--People--1960-1970. City planning--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970. Urban renewal--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970. Mall, The (Washington, D.C.)--1960-1970. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,729 × 4,672 px · prints to 12 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222839 |
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