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Richard Nickel Archive

A work made of black and white and color photographs, black and white and color contact prints, black and white and color slides, black and white and color transparencies, black and white and color negatives, photostats, correspondence, printed papers, photocopies, typescript papers, holograph papers, printed papers, maps, drawings, architectural reprographic prints, realia, vhs videocassettes and cd-roms..

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  • A work made of black and white and color photographs, black and white and color contact prints, black and white and color slides, black and white and color transparencies, black and white and color negatives, photostats, correspondence, printed papers, photocopies, typescript papers, holograph papers, printed papers, maps, drawings, architectural reprographic prints, realia, vhs videocassettes and cd-roms..

Date:

1850-2011 (bulk 1945-1972)

Artist:

Richard Nickel (1928-1972)

About this artwork

The Richard Nickel Archive includes approximately 15,000 negatives, photographs, contact sheets, items of correspondence, documents, architectural drawings and reproductions, digital image files, realia, and other effects, including Nickel’s personal library. The central focus of the Nickel Archive is the photographs and historical files pertaining to the architecture of Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan, known during their partnership from 1880 to 1895 as Adler & Sullivan Architects. The collection also highlights the individual projects of both Adler and Sullivan separately after 1895. In addition to the material related to Adler and Sullivan and the architects of the Chicago School, the collection is particularly rich in the work of the Prairie School and Second Chicago School architectural movements.

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Status

Currently Off View

Department

AIC Archives

Artist

Richard Nickel (Photographer)

Title

Richard Nickel Archive

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

Made 1850–2011

Medium

Black and white and color photographs, black and white and color contact prints, black and white and color slides, black and white and color transparencies, black and white and color negatives, photostats, correspondence, printed papers, photocopies, typescript papers, holograph papers, printed papers, maps, drawings, architectural reprographic prints, realia, VHS videocassettes and CD-ROMs.

Dimensions

152 boxes, 9 oversize portfolios and flatfile materials: W.: 2316.5 cm (912 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of The Richard Nickel Committee, 2010; and Don and Harriet Nickel, 2011.

Reference Number

2010.6

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