Chief Minister Katy Gallagher said an official naming ceremony would be held this year to recognise the contribution Walter Burley Griffin's wife and professional partner made to the city.

Ms Gallagher said the city's centenary year was a fitting time to name the vista from Mount Ainslie's summit after Marion Griffin.

The view bears a similar aspect to one that Marion once rendered in ink and watercolour from imagination and topographic maps in Chicago.

''It has been the view of many over the last 100 years that the contribution made to the national capital by Marion Mahony Griffin, the wife and professional partner of Canberra designer, Walter Burley Griffin has gone largely unrecognised,'' Ms Gallagher said.

''Many believe it was Marion Griffin's superb suite of renderings which swayed the judges to select the Griffin entry as the winning design for the new Australian national capital.''

The Chief Minister said the drawings, listed in 2003 as the Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin Design Drawings of the City of Canberra in the Australian Memory of the World Register, were works of art.

Ms Gallagher added that Marion's drawings, on display at the National Archives of Australia, were more remarkable given neither she, nor Walter, had been to Australia to see the site.

They completed their entry from their studio in Chicago.

''Perhaps Marion's most spectacular drawing is the triptych View From Summit of Mount Ainslie and so it is most fitting that this view will soon be named in Marion's honour,'' she said.