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Vertical sculpture made up of a composite of steel, copper, and brass forms all extending upwards at varying lengths.
Vertical sculpture made up of a composite of steel, copper, and brass forms all extending upwards at varying lengths.

The Artist;
[Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY];
[Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, NY];
Private Collection;
Harvey and Françoise Rambach, acquired 1986;
[Kraushaar Galleries, New York, NY, 1999];
[Robert Henry Adams Fine Art, Chicago, IL];
Private Collection, Chicago,IL, acquired 1999;
[The Owings Gallery, Santa Fe, NM];

Possibly: New York. The Brummer Gallery. Storrs Exhibition. February 1-25, 1928.

Tulsa. 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. Phoenix Art Museum (June 5-September 6, 2015); Santa Fe. Georgia O’Keeffe Museum (September 25, 2015-January 10, 2016).

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

Other/unspecified casts:
Washington D.C. The Corcoran Gallery. John Storrs Retrospective. May 2-June 2, 1969.

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

Williamstown, MA. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. John Storrs & John Flannagan: Sculpture & Works on Paper. November 7-December 28, 1980, pp. 17, 19, 49, cat. no. 12, ill. p. 17.

New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. John Storrs, A Retrospective (December 11, 1986-March 22, 1987); Fort Worth. Amon Carter Museum (May 2-July 5, 1987); Louisville. J.B. Speed Art Museum (August 28-November 1, 1987); pp. 63, 139, ill. p. 63, fig. 69.

Boston. The Boston Athenaeum. John Storrs: Machine-Age Modernist (May 12-September 3, 2010); West Palm Beach. Norton Museum of Art (October 2-January 2, 2011); New York. Grey Art Gallery (April 12-July 9, 2011); pp. 46, 83, 99, ill. p. 83, cat. no. 23.

Agee, William C. and Lewis Kachur. Masterpieces of American Modernism: From the Vilcek Collection. London: Merrell, 2013, pp. 12, 124-125, 268, ill. p. 125.

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. 94.

O’Hern, John. “Modern Manor,” American Fine Art Magazine, September/October 2013, ill. pp. 14, 55, 57, 61.

Other/unspecified casts:
Tarbell, Roberta Kupfrian. “John Storrs and Max Weber: Early Life and Work,” Masters Thesis, University of Delaware, 1968, pp. 31, 133, ill. p. 133, fig. 30.

Barbara Mathes Gallery advertisement, Arts Magazine (June 1982), ill. p. 47.

Barbara Mathes Gallery advertisement, Art in America (Summer 1982), p. 10, ill.

Frackman, Noel S. “The Art of John Storrs,” PhD Dissertation, New York University, 1987, pp. 182-188, 389, pls. 163-166.

Bayard Ewing Collection. Christie’s, New York. Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture. December 2, 1998, lot 116, ill. p. 167.

Private Collection. Freeman’s, Philadelphia. Fine American and European Paintings. December 9, 2001, lot 244, ill.

Private Collection. Sotheby’s, New York. American Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture from the Collection of Meyer & Vivian Potamkin. May 21, 2003, lot 33, ill. p. 72.

Johnson, Ken. “Forward-Looking Sculptures by a Man Straddling Two Worlds,” New York Times, April 15, 2011, p. C30, ill.

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