Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room: Stencil

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Architecture and Design

1893/94

Adler & Sullivan (American, 1883-1896)
Louis H. Sullivan (American, 1856-1924)

Executed by Healy and Millet

The Chicago Stock Exchange building was one of Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan’s most distinctive commercial projects. The centerpiece of this 13-story structure was the trading room—a dramatic, double-height space filled with Sullivan’s lush ornament and the multicolored, stenciled wall covering seen here. After an unsuccessful preservation battle in the late 1960s, the building was demolished, but the Art Institute was able to acquire the monumental entry arch, now located in a garden next to the Modern Wing.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Architecture and Design

Artist: Adler & Sullivan, Architects (Architect)
Title: Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room: Stencil
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
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.: Designed 1893–1894
Medium: Oil on canvas, mounted on panel
Dimensions: 145.5 × 307.5 cm (57 1/4 × 121 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Arthur D. Dubin
Reference Number: 1971.747
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Vinci, John, ed. 1989. The Trading Room: Louis Sullivan and The Chicago Stock Exchange. Art Institute of Chicago, p. 36.
Art Institute of Chicago. 1990. Fragments of Chicago’s Past: The Collection of Architectural Fragments at The Art Institute of Chicago. Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago, cat. no. 68, p. 141.
Zukowsky, John, and Martha Thorne. 2004. Masterpieces of Chicago Architecture. Art Institute of Chicago/Rizzoli, pp. 44–45.

The Art Institute of Chicago, “Past Forward: Architecture and Design Collection at the Art Institute,” September 12, 2017–Ongoing.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago,” 2009.

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