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Home > Art > Man and Woman

Man and Woman

Artist

John Storrs

Date

December 14, 1930

Medium

Oil on canvas

Object Type

Painting

Dimensions

H- 14 1/8 x W- 12 1/8 in. (35.6 x 30.5 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

2011.07.01

Copyright

© The Vilcek Foundation

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The Artist;
[Downtown Gallery, New York, NY];
William C. Kennedy Associates, New York, NY, 1965;
[Washburn Gallery, New York, NY];
Harvey and Françoise Rambach, New Jersey, 1986;
Private Collection, New York, 1999;
[Gerald Peters Gallery, New York, NY];

Possibly: New York, NY. Downtown Gallery. John Storrs. March 23-April 17, 1965.

New York, NY. Whitney Museum of American Art. John Storrs. December 11, 1986-March 22, 1987, pp. 91-93, 142, ill. p. 92, no. 105.

New York, NY. Gerald Peters Gallery. American Modernism, The Françoise and Harvey Rambach Collection. September 30-November 20, 1999, p. 232-233, 305, ill. p. 233.

Sales Slip, William C. Kennedy Associates, September 22, 1965. The Downtown Gallery. Sales Records, Artwork: Sales Slips (2 of 2), 1965. Box 74, Reel 5631, Frame 665. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Agee, William C. and Lewis Kachur. Masterpieces of American Modernism: From the Vilcek Collection. London: Merrell, 2013, pp. 126-127, 268, ill. p. 127.

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. p. 58.

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