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Home > Art > Abstraction

Abstraction

Artist

John Storrs

Date

1919

Medium

Painted terracotta

Object Type

Sculpture

Dimensions

H- 4 3/4 x W- 2 3/4 x D- 2 in. (12.1 x 7 x 5.1 cm)

Artist's Country of Birth

United States

Collecting Area

American Modernism

Credit Line

The Vilcek Foundation

Accession Number

VF2015.05.20

Copyright

© The Vilcek Foundation

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The Artist;
Estate of the Artist;
[Valerie Carberry Gallery, Chicago, IL];
Jan T. and Marica Vilcek Collection, New York, NY, 2011-2015;

Chicago, IL. Museum of Contemporary Art. John Storrs (1885-1956): A Retrospective Exhibition of Sculpture. November 13, 1976-January 2, 1977, pp. 5, 17, ill. p. 5.

New York, NY. Whitney Museum of American Art. John Storrs (December 11, 1986-March 22, 1987); Fort Worth, TX. Amon Carter Museum (May 2-July 5, 1987); Louisville, KY. J.B. Speed Art Museum (August 28-November 1, 1987); pp. 42, 43, 137, ill. p. 42, fig. 35.

New York, NY. Hirschl & Adler Galleries. John Storrs: Rhythm of Line. November 13, 1993-January 8, 1994, pp. 16, 42, ill. p. 16, cat no. 10.

Chicago, IL. Valerie Carberry Gallery. American Abstraction 1910-1960: Painting, Sculpture, Works on Paper. December 16, 2005-February 5, 2006, ill. p. 17, cat. no. 14.

Tulsa, OK. Philbrook Museum of Art.  From New York to New Mexico: Masterworks of American Modernism from the Vilcek Foundation Collection (February 8-May 3, 2015); Phoenix, AZ. Phoenix Art Museum (June 5-September 6, 2015); Santa Fe, NM. Georgia O’Keeffe Museum (September 25, 2015-January 10, 2016).

John Henry Bradley Storrs Papers, Personal Business Records: Lists of Artworks, 1923-1980, Box 7, Folder 33, Frame 5. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Photographs of Works of Art: Storrs, John Henry Bradley, Downtown Gallery Records, Box 114, Reel 5652, Frame 887, ill. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Frackman, Noel S. “The Art of John Storrs,” PhD Dissertation, New York University, 1987, p. 111-123, pl. 87, p. 381, as Abstraction, 1919.

Dinin, Kenneth. “John Storrs: Organic Fuctionalism in a Modern Idiom,” The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, Fall 1987, pp. 63, 65, ill. p. 65, fig. 22.

Agee, William C. and Lewis Kachur. Masterpieces of American Modernism: From the Vilcek Collection. London: Merrell, 2013, pp. 12, 117-118, 268, ill. pp. 117, 118.

Pochoda, Elizabeth. “Freedom and the abstract truth: Jan and Marica Vilcek’s collection of American modernist art,” The Magazine Antiques (May/June 2013), ill. pp. 100, 101.

O’Hern, John. “Modern Manor,” American Fine Art Magazine, September/October 2013, ill. pp. 58,  64.

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