ID 1230290
Lot 127 | DANKMAR ADLER (1844-1900) AND LOUIS SULLIVAN (1856-1924)
Estimate value
$ 15 000 – 20 000
Elevator Door for the Chicago Stock Exchange, Chicago, lllinois, circa 1893
produced by Winslow Brothers, Illinois
patinated wrought iron
73 ½ x 39 1/8 x 1 in. (186.7 x 99.4 x 2.54 cm)
Provenance
Chicago Stock Exchange, Chicago, Illinois, circa 1983
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
B. 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
S. C. Mollman, ed., Louis Sullivan in the Art Institute of Chicago: The Illustrated Catalogue of Collections, New York, 1989, cat. no. 163
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.
| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
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| Art style: | Modern art |
| Auction house category: | Furniture, Furniture and Lamps |
| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
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| Art style: | Modern art |
| Auction house category: | Furniture, Furniture and Lamps |
| Address of auction |
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