Jules Guerin at the St. Louis Fair, 1904

While we can show only four of Guérin's illustrations in color here, from the lead article in Scribner's Monthly Magazine for April 1904 by Montgomery Schuyler, this exhibition was formally known as
The Louisiana Purchase Exposition. You can read about the fair at the Wikipedia link, or search for other sources of information.

I have read and reread the learned text of the distinguished architectural critic and once again I have to say that it would do a great disservice to the genius of Jules Guérin to bore you with the comparisons made between this fair and others of the time, with not a word about the splendid illustrations. More's the pity.

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The Colonnade of the Varied Industries Building

Education Building, reflected in the Grand Basin, early evening

Electricity Building by Moonlight

Façade of Transportation Building at night.

I'll close this tribute to the work of Jules Guérin without adding anything further. You have now seen enough of his renderings to appreciate his genius. I can only marvel at his courage to undertake such monumental assignments, and then to bring them off as spectacularly as he did.