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Home > Art > Abstraction

Abstraction

Artist

John Storrs

Date

1924

Medium

Limestone and marble inlay

Object Type

Sculpture

Dimensions

H- 17 x W-13 x D- 4 3/4 in. (43.2 x 33 x 12.1 cm)

Artist's Country of Birth

United States

Collecting Area

American Modernism

Credit Line

The Jan T. and Marica Vilcek Collection, Promised gift to The Vilcek Foundation

Accession Number

2011.03.01

Copyright

© The Vilcek Foundation

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Native American Navajo southwest
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The Artist;
William C. Bullitt;
By descent to his daughter, Anne Bullitt;
Estate of Anne Bullitt;
[James Adam & Sons, Dublin, Ireland, October 7, 2008, lot 00044];
The Taylor/Lustig Collection;
[Valerie Carberry Gallery, Chicago, IL];

Boston, MA. The Boston Athenaeum. John Storrs: Machine-Age Modernist (May 12-September 3, 2010); West Palm Beach, FL. Norton Museum of Art (October 2-January 2, 2011); New York, NY. Grey Art Gallery, New York University (April 12-July 9, 2011), pp. 36, 61, 97, ill. p. 61, cat. no. 1.

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).

Corpus Christi, TX. The Art Museum of South Texas. Masterpieces of American Modernism from the Vilcek Collection of American Art. September 13, 2018-January 6, 2019.

Tarbell, Roberta K. “The Impact of the Armory Show on American Sculpture,” Archives of American Art Journal 18, No. 2 (1978), p. 10.

Frackman, Noel S. “The Art of John Storrs.” PhD Dissertation, New York University, 1987, pp. 111-123, 382, pl. 93.

Frackman, Noel. John Storrs. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1987, pp. 44-45, ill. p. 44, fig. 39.

Karlins, N. F. “John Storrs, Machine-Age Modernist,” artnet, 2011.

Agee, William C. and Lewis Kachur. Masterpieces of American Modernism: From the Vilcek Collection. London: Merrell, 2013, pp. 12, 112, 116, 118, 122-123, 268, ill. pp. 122, 123.

Pochoda, Elizabeth. “Freedom and the abstract truth: Jan and Marica Vilcek’s collection of American modernist art,” The Magazine Antiques (May/June 2013), ill. p. 96.

O’Hern, John. “Modern Manor,” American Fine Art Magazine, September/October 2013, ill. pp. 59, 60.

Watts Jr., James D. “Modern masterworks: Philbrook exhibit brings American masters to Tulsa,” Tulsa World, February 12, 2015.

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