Masterpieces

SULLIVAN, Louis Henry

Boston, Massachusetts, 1856 - Chicago, Illinois, 1924

Fragment de la décoration peinte de la salle centrale (Trading Room) du Stock Exchange de Chicago
Fragment of painted decoration for the trading room of the Chicago Stock Exchange

RF 1984 6

1894

Oil on canvas

H: 1, 47 m.; W: 0, 90 m.

Paris, Musée d'Orsay

Painting

From 1865 to 1900

Historical

Donated to the Musée d'Orsay by the Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Architecture, 1984.

Bibliography

John Vinci, Louis Sullivan and the Chicago Stock Exchange, the Art Institute of Chicago, 1989, p. ?;

I. Compin, G. Lacambre, A. Roquebert : Musée d'Orsay - Catalogue sommaire illustré des peintures, Paris, RMN, 1990, tome II, p. 449;

Jean-Claude Garcias, Sullivan, Hazan, Paris, 1997, p.82-9;

David Van Zanten, Sullivan's City: the Meaning of Ornament for Louis Sullivan, W.W. Norton & Co, New York and London, 2000, p. 10-11, 77-80;

Ronald E. Schmitt, Sullivanesque: Urban Architecture and Ornamentation, University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago, 2002, p. 145.