« The Mystery Magnified quilt is zooming right along. | Main | Crafty Girl Is Crafty »
Just some tiny bits o 'architecture for ya.
When we went to the Cultural Center to see the AMAZING Vivan Maier exhibit (so worth it!), I was glad to find the Sullivan exhibit was still up as well.
My dad is a huge architecture buff so my exposure to Louis Sullivan goes back many, many years.
Then after moving to Chicago, I found out about Richard Nickel, also a huge architecture buff, who not only devoted a huge portion of his time to photographing Sullivan architecture (as well as others) and rushing around the city trying to do so as the buildings were busy being torn down (gasp! SERIOUSLY), but also spent a TON of time salvaging facades and iron work and other stuff from Sullivan buildings. When he died (in a collapsing building he was shooting photos of), his parents inherited several garages full of these facades and stuff.
Now oddly this exhibit of various Sullivan drawings, buildings, and the types of facades, ironwork, etc. that I show little glimpses of in these shots did not have any labels of provenance, i.e., when you go to an art exhibit, usually in the lower corner of the label it says "from the museum's collection" or "on loan from Mr. John Doe" or something. But I'm pretty sure that at least some of them come from Nickel's collection (because where else would they have gotten them?) which I believe was mostly donated to SIU (Southern Illinois University) on his death. [But I'm not going to actually research that further so don't take my thoughts as FACT.]
Anyway, it was really thrilling to see these pieces up close.
[You may have seen me take somewhat similar pictures of bits of textured art and deep painted walls in London (say here or here or here. I like what I like, eh?]
BTW, I highly recommnend this book. His photos are fantastic.
Comments
I'm so glad you post so many of your favorite shots on here, because I seem to be constantly missing things on flickr lately. Love these.
when I was little I wanted to study architecture... then I went travelling and well ... the rest is history...
keep 'em coming.