Elevator Frieze Panel from the Chicago Stock Exchange Building
Adler & Sullivan, Architects
1893-94
Medium
Copper-plated cast iron in metal frame
Dimensions
45.3 × 1619.5 × 4.5 cm (17 7/8 × 637 5/8 × 1 13/16 in.)
Classification
architectural fragment
Department
Architecture and Design
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
148323
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...