Curator

Art Institute Chicago
Harvard art museum
My Exhibition

A work made of watercolor and black ink transfer (monotype?), on cream laid paper, laid down on cream card.

Architecture, 1921

Paul Klee

A grand, double-height room with wood paneling, stenciled wall patterns, four hexagonal columns, and an interior balcony with guardrail at left.

Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room: Reconstruction at the Art Institute of Chicago, 1893/94 (original built) 1972 (original demolished) 1976/77 (reconstructed)

Adler & Sullivan, Architects

A work made of limestone with carved decoration.

Architectural Fragment, Ilkhanid dynasty (1256–1353), 13th century

Islamic

A work made of oil on canvas.

Interior of St. Mark's, Venice, 1869

David Dalhoff Neal

A circular decoration with a central cross and radiating organic motifs composed of natural and geometric forms.

Elevator Grille Ornament from Schlesinger and Mayer Store, Chicago, Illinois, 1903/04

Louis H. Sullivan

A work made of molded terracotta with traces of slip pigment.

Architectural Brick with Ogre Mask, Tang dynasty (A.D. 618–907), probably second half of 8th century

A finely detailed drawing of architectural ornament in an organic style made up of whiplash appendages and spiral stalks.

System of Architectural Ornament, Plate 16, Impromptu!, 1922

Louis H. Sullivan

A triptych glass window in an oak frame with an asymmetrical geometric pattern of circles, squares, and rectangles in clear, red, green, blue, and black glass.

Triptych Window from the Coonley Playhouse, Riverside, Illinois, 1912 (removed 1967)

Frank Lloyd Wright

A stenciled wall covering made up of multicolored ornamentation. The pattern consists of intricate repeated organic shapes.

Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room: Stencil, 1893/94

Adler & Sullivan, Architects

A T-shaped architectural fragment with ornate geometric patterning consisting of repeating ellipses and some foliage detail.

Chicago Stock Exchange Building: First Floor Elevator Enclosure Grille T-Plate, 1893/94

Adler & Sullivan, Architects

A framed glass window featuring a geometric stylized depiction of an organic form resembling wheat in clear, green, and golden tones, repeated three times.

Darwin D. Martin House: "Tree of Life" Window, 1904

Frank Lloyd Wright

A sepia-tones drawing of an apparatus suspending a human body from a counterweight system via wraps around its arms, legs, and body.

Automarionette, c. 1987

Diller + Scofidio

A work made of wood.

Architectural Fragment with Relief Carving, 5th–6th century

Ancient Egyptian

A sketch of an airy interior space with two slender columns in the foreground and three large glass windows on the back wall.

Court House Studies, Interior Perspective Study, c. 1931–1938

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

A work made of pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, and watercolor (recto), nad pen and brown ink with brush and gray and brown wash (verso), on ivory laid paper.

Architectural Fantasy (recto); Architectural Details (verso), n.d.

Mauro Antonio Tesi

A drawing of a tall gothic-style office building with the words "Competition for The New Tribune Building" along the bottom.

Competition for the New Tribune Building, Chicago, Illinois, Elevation, 1922

Richard Yoshijiro Mine

A work made of terracotta.

Dragon-Shaped Architectural Ornament, 13th/14th century

A work made of terracotta, pigment.

Architectural Relief Depicting the Gigantomachy (Battle Between Gods and Giants), 3rd-2nd century BCE

Ancient Etruscan

A white iron grille fragment with a webbed ornamental foliage motif.

Balcony Railing Section from the Mecca Apartment Building, Chicago, Illinois, 1891-92 (demolished about 1951)

Edbrooke and Burnham

A work made of painted plaster.

Schiller Building (later Garrick Theater): Sections of Star-Pod Design from Proscenium Vault, c. 1891/92

Louis H. Sullivan