DANKMAR ADLER (1844-1900) AND LOUIS SULLIVAN (1856-1924)

Lot 126
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Lot 126 | DANKMAR ADLER (1844-1900) AND LOUIS SULLIVAN (1856-1924)
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$ 20 000 – 30 000
DANKMAR ADLER (1844-1900) AND LOUIS SULLIVAN (1856-1924)
Rare Elevator Screen for the Chicago Stock Exchange, Chicago, Illinois, circa 1893
produced by by the Winslow Brothers, Illinois
patinated wrought iron
73 ½ x 58 ½ x 1 in. (186.7 x 148.6 x 2.54 cm)




Provenance

Chicago Stock Exchange, Chicago, Illinois, circa 1893
Acquired from the above by the present owner, circa 1972



Literature

D. Lowe, Lost Chicago, Boston, 1975, p. 140
J. Vinci, The Art Institute of Chicago: The Stock Exchange Trading Room, Chicago, 1977, pp. 22 -23
Louis H. Sullivan: Architectural Ornament Collection, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, exh. cat., Edwardsville, IL, 1981, fig. 37
J. Vinci, The Trading Room: Louis Sullivan and The Chicago Stock Exchange, 1989, p. 23
P. A. Saliga and R. Bruegmann, Fragments of Chicago's Past: The Collection of Architectural Fragments at the
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1990, p. 140
D. C. Peirce, Art & Enterprise: American Decorative Art, 1825-1917, The Virginia Carroll Crawford Collection, Atlanta, 1999, pp. 376 -377
D. Van Zanten, Sullivan's City: The Meaning of Ornament for Louis Sullivan, New York, 2000, p. 61 (for a discussion of the commission)
R. Nickel and A. Siskind, The Complete Architecture of Adler & Sullivan, pp. 190, 312



Further details

Examples of these screens designed by Dankmar Adler and Louis Henry Sullivan from the Chicago Stock Exchange can be found in the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Art Institute of Chicago; the Museum of the American Arts & Crafts Movement, St. Petersburg, Florida; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
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