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Louis Sullivan

Elevator Screen from the Chicago Stock Exchange, Chicago, Illinois

Lot Closed

October 19, 05:13 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 20,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan

Elevator Screen from the Chicago Stock Exchange, Chicago, Illinois


circa 1893

executed by the Winslow Brothers, Illinois

patinated wrought iron

73 3/4 x 29 3/8 x 1 in. (187.3 x 74.6 x 2.5 cm)

Chicago Stock Exchange, Illinois, circa 1893

David Lowe, Lost Chicago, Boston, 1975, p. 140

John Vinci, The Art Institute of Chicago: The Stock Exchange Trading Room, Chicago, 1977, pp. 22-23 

Brian A. Spencer, ed., The Prairie School Tradition: The Prairie Archives of the Milwaukee Art Center, New York, 1979, p. 32

Louis H. Sullivan: Architectural Ornament Collection, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, exh. cat., Edwardsville, IL, 1981, fig. 37

Sarah C. Mollman, ed., Louis Sullivan in the Art Institute of Chicago: The Illustrated Catalogue of Collections, New York, 1989, cat. no. 163

Pauline A. Saliga and Robert Bruegmann, Fragments of Chicago's Past: The Collection of Architectural Fragments at the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1990, p. 139.

Donald C. Peirce, Art & Enterprise: American Decorative Art, 1825-1917, The Virginia Carroll Crawford Collection, Atlanta, 1999, p. 376

David Van Zanten, Sullivan's City: The Meaning of Ornament for Louis Sullivan, New York, 2000, p. 61

John Szarkowski, The Idea of Louis Sullivan, Boston, 2000, p. 95

Vinci, The Trading Room: Louis Sullivan and The Chicago Stock Exchange, pp. 22-23

Nickel and Siskind, The Complete Architecture of Adler & Sullivan, p. 190