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National Life Insurance Company Building Classical-Style Proposal, Chicago, Illinois, Elevation Sketch
Graham, Anderson, Probst and White
Graphite on tracing paper · 1916
Art Institute of Chicago

Sketch of Genius for "Tradition"
Kenyon Cox, American
Graphite on tracing paper · 1916
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Bogk House, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Rug design)
Frank Lloyd Wright
Color pencil and graphite on tracing paper · 1916
Museum of Modern Art

Maiden Chased by a Satyr
William Hunt Diederich, American, b. Hungary
figures, drawing — graphite on tracing paper · 1915
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Still Life on a Pedestal Table
Georges Braque
Gouache and watercolor, with graphite on tan wove tracing paper, laid down on cream laid paper, prepared with a gouache ground, on board · 1915
Art Institute of Chicago

Drapery Study of the Atlantic for "The Marriage of the Atlantic and Pacific," Mural in the Senate Chamber in the Wisconsin State Capitol, Madison, WI
Kenyon Cox, American
Graphite on tracing paper · 1915
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Near Jerusalem
Anna Ticho
Graphite, with stumping and erasing, on cream wove tracing paper · 1914
Art Institute of Chicago

Recreation Pier (Navy Pier), Chicago, Illinois, West Elevation
Charles Sumner Frost
Pencil on tracing paper · 1914
Art Institute of Chicago

Recreation Pier/Navy Pier Head House, Chicago, Illinois, Elevation
Charles Sumner Frost
Pencil on tracing paper · 1914
Art Institute of Chicago

Apocalyptic Landscape
Ludwig Meidner
Pen and black ink, over graphite, on cream tracing paper, laid down on off-white wove paper · 1914
Art Institute of Chicago

Chatham Fields, Chicago, Illinois, Design Sketch
Edward Herbert Bennett
Graphite and colored pencil on tracing paper · 1914
Art Institute of Chicago

Yvonne Landsberg
Henri Matisse
Pencil on tracing paper · 1914
Museum of Modern Art

Angled Beauty
Arthur B. Davies
Watercolor and graphite on greenish tan laid tracing paper · 1913
Art Institute of Chicago

Sergei Diaghilev and Vaslav Nijinsky
Jean Cocteau
Pen and brown ink, on golden-yellow wove tracing paper (discolored from cream) · 1913
Art Institute of Chicago

Utrillo pensif
Suzanne Valadon
tracing paper · 1911

The Horse
Jacques Villon
Watercolor and graphite, with blue gouache on tan wove tracing paper, laid down on cream wove paper, laid down on cream wove paper · 1911
Art Institute of Chicago

Newman College Chapel, University of Melbourne, Australia, Interior Perspective
Walter Burley Griffin
Graphite on tracing paper · 1910
Art Institute of Chicago

Peter Fortune, Residence: Plan of Wall and Gates
Howard Van Doren Shaw
Graphite on tracing paper · 1910
Art Institute of Chicago

Raymond Duchamp-Villon
Jacques Villon
Graphite on dark tan tracing paper, laid down on white wove paper, laid down on ivory wove board · 1910
Art Institute of Chicago

Dickson Land Development Project, Scheme
Walter Burley Griffin
Pencil and colored pencil on tracing paper · 1910
Art Institute of Chicago

Grand Central Terminal, New York, NY: Design for Façade
Whitney Warren Jr., American
Pen and black ink, graphite on cream tracing paper · 1910
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Self-Portrait
Jean Cocteau
Pen and black ink, on ivory wove tracing paper · 1909
Art Institute of Chicago

Plate 78 (2 Drawings) from The Plan of Chicago, 1909: Suggested Location and Arrangement of the Railway Passenger Stations West of the River. Subway Scheme: 1. Plan of Street Level. 2. Plan Below Street Level
Daniel Hudson Burnham
Ink on tracing paper · 1909
Art Institute of Chicago

Plate 79 (2 Drawings) from The Plan of Chicago, 1909: Suggested Location and Arrangement of the Railway Passenger Stations West of the River. Overhead Scheme: 1. Plan at Street Level. 2. Plan Above Street Level
Daniel Hudson Burnham
Ink on tracing paper · 1909
Art Institute of Chicago