terracotta ornament from the Schiller Building, Chicago, Louis Henry Sullivan

Artwork Overview

terracotta ornament from the Schiller Building, Chicago, 1891
Where object was made: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Material/technique: terracotta
Dimensions:
Object Height/Width/Depth (Height x Width x Depth): 30 x 47 x 11.5 cm
Object Height/Width/Depth (Height x Width x Depth): 11 13/16 x 18 1/2 x 4 1/2 in
Credit line: Gift of the KU School of Architecture
Accession number: 1978.0009
Not on display

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Label texts

Archive Label 1999: Here are ceramics on a much larger scale than any of the other objects in this exhibition. Along with George Elmslie's ornaments nearby, these terracotta tiles from a building facade represent the use of ceramics in the service of architecture. They were originally painted in several colors, traces of which can be seen on one of these two fragments. The second one shows remnants of the paint-removal process. The numbers stamped on top may indicate that these were made in a mold.

Exhibitions

Bertram Lyons, curator
2008–2009
Susan Earle, curator
1996–1997

Citations

Hyland, Douglas, and Marilyn Stokstad, eds. Catalogue of the Sculpture Collection: Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art. Lawrence, Kansas: Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, 1981.

Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas. The Register of the Spencer Museum of Art 5, no. 6, Fall (1978):