A Vision for Morgan's Library

In August 1902, as design development was in its final stages, Charles Follen McKim commissioned Hughson Hawley, a well-regarded architectural renderer, to create this evocative watercolor of the approved design. With its depictions of blue skies above, horses and carriages passing by, and fashionably dressed New Yorkers milling about, the drawing anticipated the way the completed building would appear in its residential context.