George Grant Elmslie / Ceiling light fixture / 1913

George Grant Elmslie
Ceiling light fixture
1913
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Creator Name: Elmslie George
Creator Nationality: American (born Scotland), Minnesota, Minneapolis
Creator Role: Designer
Creator Dates/Places: 1871 - 1952
Gender: M
Creator Name-CRT: George Grant Elmslie
Creator Name: Purcell William
Creator Nationality: American, Minnesota, Minneapolis
Creator Dates/Places: 1880 - 1965
Creator Name-CRT: William Gray Purcell
Creator Name: Mosaic Art Shops (E.L. Sharretts)
Creator Nationality: United States
Creator Role: Maker
Creator Dates/Places: 1912 - 1930
Creator Name-CRT: Mosaic Art Shops (E.L. Sharretts)
Title: Ceiling light fixture
View: front
Creation Start Date: 1913
Creation End Date: 1913
Creation Date: 1913
Object Type: Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects
Classification Term: Architecture
Materials and Techniques: Glass, zinc caming
Dimensions: Dia.20 in.
AMICA Contributor: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Owner Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
ID Number: 90.92.84
Credit Line: Bequest of Anson Cutts, Jr.
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Context: This light fixture was designed for the back porch of Purcell's own house (now the Purcell-Cutts House). The fixture was hung from the ceiling, parallel to the ceiling plane, below a recessed light well holding a single bulb. An identical fixture is still in place in the entrance hall of the house; a reproduction has been made for the porch. The round panel contains the V-shaped motifs Elmslie employed in many of his designs.
Related Multimedia Description: Unified Vision: In the late 19th century, Louis Sullivan conceived the idea of an authentic American architecture suited to the needs of people living in the modern age.Employing his principles of unified design, Sullivan's followers, including Frank Lloyd Wright, William Gray Purcell, and George Grant Elmslie, developed what is now known as the Prairie School.Unified Vision explores these modern concepts through the exemplary Prairie School collection at The Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
Link to Multimedia: http://www.artsmia.org/unified_vision/
AMICA ID: MIA_.90.92.84
AMICA Library Year: 2003
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