Louis I. Kahn portrait of Dr. Charles Burr, ca. 1935.

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Louis I. Kahn portrait of Dr. Charles Burr, ca. 1935.

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The collection comprises one original drawing (lithographic crayon on illustration board) by Louis I. Kahn (1901-1974) of Dr. Charles W. Burr, first professor of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. The drawing shows Burr presenting a patient in the rotunda of the old Pennsylvania General Hospital. The drawing was commissioned by the Philadelphia Psychiatric Association for presentation to Dr. Burr around 1935. A lithographic print which closely resembles this drawing is in the collection of the Architect's daughter, Sue Ann Kahn. An image of this lithograph is published on page 200 of Jan Hockstim's The Paintings and Sketches of Louis I. Kahn.

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University of Pennsylvania, Architectural Archives

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University of Pennsylvania. Dept. of Psychiatry

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Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974

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Louis I. Kahn was born in Estonia and raised in Philadelphia. He was trained in architecture in the Beaux-Arts tradition at the University of Pennsylvania under Paul Philippe Cret. As a mature architect, Kahn was distinguished from his contemporaries (in a period dominated by the International Style) by his unique personal philosophy of architecture and a style marked by a profound sense of history and pure geometry in design and the texture of materials in construction. His legacy is as much in...

Burr, Charles W. (Charles Walts), 1861-1944

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Neurologist, psychiatrist, and professor emeritus of mental diseases at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, as well as a book collector who gave 19,000 volumes to the University Library in 1932. From the description of Collection : of autograph letters and documents, 1788-1932. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155862715 ...