Louis SullivanAmerican, 1856–1924Doric Order Details
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Where is “Doric Order Details” now? Collection: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Not on view at present. Checked September 29, 2026.
Chicago, United States
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- 1989.98.1-4
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In the life of Louis Sullivan
The whole life1872–1873
Briefly studies architecture under William Ware
Sullivan never completed a professional education: he studied architecture at MIT only briefly (1872–1873), where his chief teacher was William Robert Ware.
1873
Chicago after the Great Fire: with Jenney
In 1873 Sullivan moved to Chicago, where a building boom was under way after the Great Fire of 1871, and worked for William Le Baron Jenney, the architect often credited with erecting the first steel-frame building. After less than a year he left for Paris.
1873
With Furness in Philadelphia, until the crisis of 1873
After a year of study Sullivan moved to Philadelphia and took a job with the architect Frank Furness, but the Depression of 1873 dried up much of Furness’s work and he had to let Sullivan go.
1874–1876 · Education
Beaux-Arts de Paris
1875–1879
A draughtsman for Johnston & Edelman
Back in Chicago from Paris, Sullivan worked as a draughtsman for the firm of Joseph S. Johnston & John Edelman; he was assigned the design of fresco-secco stencils (a technique applied to dry plaster) for the interior of Moody Tabernacle.
