| What: The exhibition "Louis Sullivan's 'Idea' " closes, Monday, September 11, 2006
When: The exhibition is on view in the Libraries Reading Room, near the Michigan Avenue entrance of the museum, through September 11, 2006, Monday-Friday 10:30-5:00 p.m.; Thursday evenings until 8:00 p.m.; and Saturday September 9, 10:30-4:30 p.m.
Where: The Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson & Burnham Libraries
Description: The Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson
& Burnham Libraries The exhibition features photographs, drawings,
manuscripts and building fragments from the Libraries' Sullivaniana
archival collection and from a distinguished private collection.
Tim Samuelson, curator of the exhibition and Cultural Historian
for the City of Chicago, highlights Sullivan's prominent skyscrapers,
the Transportation Building at the World's Columbian Exposition,
his home at Ocean Springs, Mississippi, and the late summation
of his philosophy of ornament A System of Architectural Ornament
with a Philosophy of Man's Power. The exhibition is on view in
the Libraries Reading Room, near the Michigan Avenue entrance
of the museum, through September 11, 2006, Monday-Friday 10:30-5:00
p.m.; Thursday evenings until 8:00 p.m.; and Saturday September
9, 10:30-4:30 p.m. For more information, please visit
here.
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Krause Music Store; Barbara Crane, courtesy
Commission on Chicago Landmarks
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