Elevator Grille from the Chicago Stock Exchange, Chicago, Illinois
Architectural salvage from the Chicago Stock Exchange, demolished 1972. Every surviving fragment is unique and the provenance is a wrecking ball.
MakerLouis H. Sullivan
Date1894
OriginUnited States
MediumCast iron, wrought iron, and copper-plated cast iron
DimensionsApprox: 303.6 × 425.5 cm (119 1/2 × 167 1/2 in.)
Classarchitectural fragment
RegisterWork — unique
QuantityOne. There is never a second.
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Documented as the maker's own work.
Attributed to
The scholarship points here; the documentation is incomplete.
Circle of
The workshop or immediate following, in the maker's lifetime.
Manner of
The style, by another hand, at any date.
After
A copy of a known work by this maker.
Unattributed
No maker of record. Most of the trade lives here.
This plate
Elevator Grille from the Chicago Stock Exchange, Chicago, Illinois, Art Institute of Chicago, object 43975.
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