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The Chicago Stock Exchange was one of the last major commissions of the architectural firm of Adler & Sullivan before the partnership was dissolved in 1895. Louis Sullivan, a leading proponent of then-new skyscrapers and stylized architectural ornament based upon nature, designed these elevator grilles for use on the third to thirteenth floors of the Exchange. The oval shapes were conceived of as "seed germs," the basis of life, an idea to which he had first referred in his 1886 prose-poem "Inspiration."
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Until 1992: G. Owen Yost, Carrollton, Texas [1]
From 1992: Dallas Museum of Art, gift of the above [1]
[1] See Acquisition Record (dated January 14, 1992, copy in Collections Records Object File) and Deed of Gift (dated January 28, 1992, copy in Collections Records Object File).
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Adler and Sullivan's Chicago Stock Exchange was built in 1893 and 1894 and demolished in 1971.
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- Library of Congress~View additional photographs of the Chicago Stock Exchange.
- Art Institute of Chicago~Louis Sullivan illustrated the concept of the "seed germ" in Plate 2, "Manipulation of the Organic," published in of System of Architectural Ornament in 1924. View Sullivan's original drawing of Plate 2.
- Google books~Read Louis Sullivan, Inspiration (Chicago: Inland Architect Press, 1886).
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General Description
The Chicago Stock Exchange was one of the last major commissions of the architectural firm of Adler & Sullivan before the partnership was dissolved in 1895. Louis Sullivan, a leading proponent of then-new skyscrapers and stylized architectural ornament based upon nature, designed these elevator grilles for use on the third to thirteenth floors of the Exchange. The oval shapes were conceived of as "seed germs," the basis of life, an idea to which he had first referred in his 1886 prose-poem "Inspiration."
Excerpt from
Kevin Tucker, Label text, July 2008.
Fun Facts
Archival Resources
Web Resources
- Library of Congress~View additional photographs of the Chicago Stock Exchange.
- Art Institute of Chicago~Louis Sullivan illustrated the concept of the "seed germ" in Plate 2, "Manipulation of the Organic," published in of System of Architectural Ornament in 1924. View Sullivan's original drawing of Plate 2.
- Google books~Read Louis Sullivan, Inspiration (Chicago: Inland Architect Press, 1886).
Notes
did not archive in TMS because this exact label copy is in public notes
Catalogue essays
Artist/designers
Cultures
Geography
Process/materials
Historical periods
Individuals
Subject terms
RELATED OBJECTS
PROVENANCE
Until 1992: G. Owen Yost, Carrollton, Texas [1]
From 1992: Dallas Museum of Art, gift of the above [1]
[1] See Acquisition Record (dated January 14, 1992, copy in Collections Records Object File) and Deed of Gift (dated January 28, 1992, copy in Collections Records Object File).
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