Minneapolis Institute of Art

Skylight panel from a set of six

Designer: William Gray Purcell; Designer: George Grant Elmslie; Manufacturer: Mosaic Art Shops (E.L. Sharretts)

Date

1913

Medium

Glass, zinc caming, (with three new replacement panels and new oak frame)

Department

Arts of the Americas

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

This is a recreation of the central skylight located over the teller cages of the Madison State Bank. The skylight originally comprised nine panels, however, the square central panel and two of the long border panels you see here are reproductions. For the bank, Purcell, Feick and Elmslie produced a long, narrow plan for the middle of a block. The exterior featured a window wall with aqua, orange, and yellow terra-cotta ornament enlivening the brick facade. This was similar to Purcell and Elmslie's other bank designs and also to Louis Sullivan's National Farmers' Bank in Owatonna (1908). United States, Americas

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