Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room: Stencil
Adler & Sullivan, Architects
1893/94
Medium
Oil on canvas, mounted on panel
Dimensions
145.5 × 307.5 cm (57 1/4 × 121 in.)
Classification
architecture
Department
Architecture and Design
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
37281
About the Artist
Adler & Sullivan, Architects · 1883–1896
Adler & Sullivan was the Chicago architectural partnership that laid the conceptual and structural foundations for the modern American skyscraper. Dankmar Adler (1844–1900), a German-born engineer celebrated for his mastery of building acoustics and structural systems, hired Louis Sullivan (1856–1924) in 1879; the two became full partners in 1883. Sullivan had trained at the Massachusetts Institut...