Doorplate from the Guaranty Building

Doorplate from the Guaranty Building by Louis Henry Sullivan, American, 1856–1924

Classification

metalwork

Department

Smithsonian Collection

Museum

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Credit

Gift of Roger G. Kennedy

Accession Number

1979-77-9

About this artwork

Upright, roughly rectangular form with curved edges at top and bottom; cast decoration of stylized vegetal motifs, the word GUARANTY (for the Guaranty Building, Buffalo, NY (1896, Adler and Sullivan, architects) in oval worked into decoration at top; circular hole for doorknob slightly above center; a small screw hole near each corner.

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