A BRONZE-PLATED WROUGHT-IRON ELEVATOR FRIEZE

Details

A BRONZE-PLATED WROUGHT-IRON ELEVATOR FRIEZE
DESIGNED BY LOUIS H. SULLIVAN FOR THE CHICAGO STOCK EXCHANGE BUILDING, CIRCA 1893

Featuring elaborate botanical motifs within a classical foliate border (87.10.02)--67½in. (171.5cm.) wide, 18in. (45.7cm.) high

Provenance

Christie's, New York, June 20, 1987

Literature

Robert Twombly, Louis Sullivan His Life and Work, The University of Chicago Press, 1986, p. 317

Lot Essay

The design of the frieze is shown in Chapman, Jackson and Huntley,, Louis H. Sullivan Architectural Ornament Collection Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, Office of Cultural Arts and University Museums, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, Edwardsville, Illinois, 1981, fig. 34; and John Vinci, The Art Institute of Chicago: The Stock Exchange Trading Room, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1977, pp. 22, 23 showing in situ photographs of the frieze and p. 20 for a discussion of design.