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Chester Boyce Price
1885-1962
Proposal for Annex of Pierpont Morgan Library
1925
Sheet: 11 3/4 x 12 3/16 inches (298 x 310 mm); design area: 4 15/16 x 6 3/8 inches (125 x 163 mm)
Graphite on paper.
1976.31:1
Gift of Mr. Robert B. O'Connor.
Notes
Chester Price was a draughtsman with the office of Benjamin Wistar Morris, architect for the annex.
This preliminary idea for the exterior of Benjamin Wistar Morris's Annex building of 1924-28 shows an editice of slightly squatter proportions, with a split staircase and a fountain feature. While the general austere exterior was retained, the elaborate stairs and fountain were rejected for a single, unadorned staircase which constituted the entrance to the Pierpont Morgan Library from 1928 until 2003, when the Renzo Piano project reoriented the institution's facade to Madison Avenue.
This preliminary idea for the exterior of Benjamin Wistar Morris's Annex building of 1924-28 shows an editice of slightly squatter proportions, with a split staircase and a fountain feature. While the general austere exterior was retained, the elaborate stairs and fountain were rejected for a single, unadorned staircase which constituted the entrance to the Pierpont Morgan Library from 1928 until 2003, when the Renzo Piano project reoriented the institution's facade to Madison Avenue.
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Signed and dated in pencil at lower right, "Chester B. Price 1925".
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