Le Corbusier: Blue Mountains, 1910, pencil, watercolor and black ink on paper, 6 3/8 by 7 11/16 inches. Fondation Le Corbusier, Paris. © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris / FLC.
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, better known as the famed modernist architect Le Corbusier, was also a prolific painter, photographer, writer and draftsman. The exhaustive exhibition “An Atlas of Modern Landscapes” traces his globe-trotting career from his youth in rural Switzerland and travels throughout Western Europe and the Balkans to his lucrative Paris-based architecture practice and his creation of Chandigarh, the capital city the Indian government commissioned him to design in the late 1940s. Four room-size domestic interiors accompany the over 300 paintings, drawings, sketches and models in the show.