DANKMAR ADLER (1844-1900) AND LOUIS SULLIVAN (1856-1924) Transom for the Chicago Stock Exchange, Chicago, Illinois, circa 1893 produced by Winslow Brothers, Illinois patinated wrought iron 15 ½ x 73 ½ x 1 in. (39.4 x 186.7 x 2.54 cm)
DANKMAR ADLER (1844-1900) AND LOUIS SULLIVAN (1856-1924) Transom for the Chicago Stock Exchange, Chicago, Illinois, circa 1893 produced by Winslow Brothers, Illinois patinated wrought iron 15 ½ x 73 ½ x 1 in. (39.4 x 186.7 x 2.54 cm)
Chicago Stock Exchange, Chicago, Illinois, circa 1893 Acquired from the above by the present owner, circa 1972
D. Garrard Lowe, Lost Chicago, Boston, 1975, pp. 138-140 (for a discussion of the commission) S. C. Mollman, ed., Louis Sullivan in the Art Institute of Chicago: The Illustrated Catalogue of Collections, New York, 1989, cat. no. 167 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. 139 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)
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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