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Home > Art > Untitled (Study for Figure)

Untitled (Study for Figure)

Artist

John Storrs

Date

c. 1935

Medium

Graphite on paper

Object Type

Work on Paper

Dimensions

H- 9 1/2 x W- 5 7/8 in. (24.1 x 14.9 cm)

Artist's Country of Birth

United States

Collecting Area

American Modernism

Credit Line

The Vilcek Foundation

Accession Number

VF2015.05.15

Copyright

© The Vilcek Foundation

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About the Object

This work is one of three sketches in the Vilcek Collection, including Untitled (Study for Roullier Galleries Exhibition Invitation) and Untitled (Study for Roullier Galleries Exhibition Invitation), that Storrs created for an exhibition announcement at the Albert Roullier Galleries in Chicago. The exhibition ran from February 15 to March 1, 1935.

 

Additional Information

The form, which appears to be an abstracted figure, is based on a wood sculpture Untitled (Study for Figure), 1920. In 1935, Storrs cast the form in metal and gave it the same title Untitled (Study for Figure), both in the Vilcek Collection.

The Artist;
Estate of the Artist;
[Valerie Carberry Gallery, Chicago, IL];
[The Owings Gallery, Santa Fe, NM];
Jan T. and Marica Vilcek Collection, New York, NY, 2009-2015;

Frackman, Noel. John Storrs. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1987, pp. 111-112.

Agee, William C. and Lewis Kachur. Masterpieces of American Modernism: From the Vilcek Collection. London: Merrell, 2013, pp. 118-121, 268, ill. p. 120.

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