Stenciled wall panel from the Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room
Adler and Sullivan
(American, active 1883–1896)
Louis H. Sullivan
(American, 1852–1924)
1893–1894
Object PlaceChicago, Illinois
Medium/TechniqueOil on canvas
DimensionsHeight x length: 144.8 × 167.6 cm (57 × 66 in.)
Credit LineBequest of Robert W. Ames
Accession number2019.2202
On View
Not on viewClassificationsArchitectural elements
Collections
Provenance1893-94, installed in the Trading Room of the Chicago Stock Exchange; about 1972, upon demolition of the Chicago Stock Exchange building, section of frieze panel salvaged and kept by Robert Webb Ames (b. 1925 – d. 2016), Chicago [see note 1]; 2019, bequest of Robert W. Ames to the MFA [see note 2]. (Accession Date: December 11, 2019)
NOTES:
(1) At the time, Mr. Ames was studying architecture with Mies Van der Rohe at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago; he later returned to the Boston area where he lived for the rest of his life.
(2) Mr. Ames died May 17, 2016.
NOTES:
(1) At the time, Mr. Ames was studying architecture with Mies Van der Rohe at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago; he later returned to the Boston area where he lived for the rest of his life.
(2) Mr. Ames died May 17, 2016.
John Singer Sargent
