Dake Gallery Ceiling

The plaster ceiling in the Dake Gallery was installed by Julian Orlandini in 1965. Orlandini has also done work on the Captain Frederick Pabst Mansion and is a notable Milwaukee artist. The Dake Gallery is named after Mrs. Harriet Walter Dake, a prominent social arbiter. Her family, Thomas S. Van Alyea, Thomas S. Van Alyea Jr. and Harriet Van Alyea Webb donated the wood paneling, which was installed into the museum in 1965 by Gildner, Lewis and Sons. The paneling is made from American Oak and is a copy of a 17th century room in a Manor house at Bromley-by-Bow, England, which originally was a hunting lodge of Henry II. Today, this room is used for changing exhibitions.

Photography by Kevin Miyazaki.