Schiller Theatre Building, Chicago, Illinois: Banquet Room Frieze Panel (Restored)
Adler & Sullivan, Architects
c. 1891/93
Medium
Gold, silver, and bronze paint on reconstructed plaster
Dimensions
99 × 78.2 × 4 cm (39 × 30 13/16 × 1 5/8 in.)
Classification
architectural fragment
Department
Architecture and Design
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
151991
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...