Star-pod Fragment From the Proscenium Vault of the Garrick Theater, Chicago, Illinois
Adler & Sullivan, Architects
1891–92 (demolished 1961)
Medium
Painted plaster
Dimensions
70 × 70 × 4 cm (27 1/2 × 27 1/2 × 1/2 in.)
Classification
architectural fragment
Department
Architecture and Design
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
235588
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...