The widow of Henry Field commissioned Tiffany to design a gallery in her husband's memory for the Art Institute of Chicago in 1893. Mrs. Field had undoubtedly seen Tiffany's display at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The gallery was intended for the display of the Fields' collection of nineteenth-century French paintings. Although the gallery no longer survives, the drawing reveals Tiffany's inspired and harmonious use of materials—colored stone mosaic floor, golden bronze and black glass mosaic mantel facing, polished ebony pilasters, apple green velour-covered walls, and metallic stenciling as a frieze.