Frieze Section from the Rothschild Store, Chicago, Illinois
Adler & Sullivan, Architects
1881 (demolished 1972)
Medium
Cast iron
Dimensions
171.5 × 96.3 cm (67 1/2 × 37 7/8 in.)
Classification
architectural fragment
Department
Architecture and Design
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
38908
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...