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John Storrs

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John Bradley Storrs (1885 - 1956) was active/lived in Illinois / France.  John Storrs is known for Sculpture, non ob woodcuts, painting.

Born and raised in Chicago, John Storrs was a pioneer modernist sculptor known for his precisely executed, solid, non-objective, machine-like forms. He spent most of his adult life in France, living much of the time in Orleans, having first traveled to Europe in 1907-1908.

He returned to Chicago and studied with sculptor Lorado Taft at the Art Institute of Chicago and then with Charles Grafly at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. In 1912, he returned to France and became a student of Auguste Rodin until Rodin's death in 1917. During this period, Storrs had used a realist style in his sculpture, but by 1920, he was pursuing Cubism and Futurism and then turned to vertical, totally non-objective pieces that resembled architectural structures.

In 1930, he designed "Ceres" the 33-foot high aluminum statue atop the Board of Trade Building in Chicago.

During World War II, he was imprisoned for one year by Nazis.

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Facts about John Storrs

   Publications  Book References:  66
Magazine References:  4

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4 Miscellaneous Magazine References for John Storrs
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review Painting & Sculpture from Smith April 2002 Muehlig, Linda Yes
ARTnews Reviews September 2001 Editors, ARTnews Yes
Art & Antiques Going to Town November 1998 Rawlings, Irene Yes
Art & Auction American Modernisms October 1995 Berman, Avis Yes
66 Book References for John Storrs
Year Author Title Pages Color
2018 Canterbury, Sue and Adrian Daub Cult of the Machine: Precisionism and American Art (De Young and Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)
(Exhibition catalog)		 244 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2005 Janovy, Karen O. (Editor); David Cateforis (Intro) Sculpture From the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 246 Yes
1999 Editor, Smith College Museum Masterworks of American Painting and Sculpture from Smith College Museum 307 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1998 Calo, Mary Ann Critical Issues in American Art A Book of Readings 328 No
1997 Agee, William C Modern American Painting 1910-194 Toward A New Perspective
(Exhibition catalog)		 24 No
1996 Hopps, Walter (others) American Images/The SBC Collection of 20th Century American Art 320 Yes
1995 Fuchs, Rudi/Adam D Weinberg Views from Abroad European Perspectives on American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 127 Yes
1994 Craven, Wayne American Art History and Culture 687 Yes
1994 Reynolds, Donald Martin Masters of American Sculpture: The Figurative Tradition From the American Renaissance to the Millenium 275 Yes
1994 Tarbell, Roberta K. Robert Laurent and American Figurative Sculpture 1910-1960 Selections from the John N. Stern Collection and the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 55 No
1992 Strazdes, Diana American Paintings and Sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art 511 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 1117 No
1990 Hirschl & Adler Galleries Counterpoint Two Centuries of American Masters
(Exhibition catalog)		 112 Yes
1990 Prince, Sue Ann The Old Guard and Avant-Garde Modernism in Chicago 1910-1940 304 Yes
1989 Armstrong, Tom/Susan C Larsen Art in Place Fifteen Years of Acquisition
(Exhibition catalog)		 230 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 538 No
1989 Weber, Bruce Drawn from Tradition: American Drawings and Watercolors: From the Collection of Susan and Herbert Adler, Neuberger Museum
(Exhibition catalog)		 185 Yes
1988 Susan Sheehan Inc American Masterworks on Paper 1800-1960 104 No
1988 Ward, Meredith (essay) Adventure and Inspiration American Artists in Other Lands
(Exhibition catalog)		 172 Yes
1988 Zurier, Rebecca Art for the Masses A Radical Magazine and its Graphics 1911-1917
(Exhibition catalog)		 217 No
1987 Saint Louis Art Museum The Ebsworth Collection: American Modernism, 1911-1947 225 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 DuPont, Diana, K Holland San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection 402 Yes
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Weber, Bruce The Fine Line Drawing with Silver in America
(Exhibition catalog)		 103 No
1985 Wooden, Howard E American Art of Great Depression Two Sides of the Coin
(Exhibition catalog)		 151 No
1984 Baigell, Mathew American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History 420 No
1984 Clark-Langager, Sarah Order and Enigma
(Exhibition catalog)		 95 No
1984 Craven, Wayne Sculpture in America (new and revised edition) 782 No
1984 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present 656 No
1984 Sims, Lowery Stokes The Figure in 20th Century American Art Metropolitan Museum of Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 167 Yes
1983 Adams, Clinton American Lithographers 1900-1960: The Artists and Their Printers 228 Yes
1983 Lane, John R and Susan Larsen Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America 1927-1944
(Exhibition catalog)		 256 Yes
1983 Schleier, Merrill The Skyscraper in American Art, 1890-1931 297 No
1982 Opitz, Glenn Dictionary of American Artists 372 No
1981 Armstrong, Tom Amerikanische Malerei 1930-1980
(Exhibition catalog)		 301 Yes
1981 Pope, Annemarie H Lawrence H Bloedel Collection Loan Exhibition/Whitney/Williams College
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 Yes
1981 Rugoff, Milton The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art 669 Yes
1980 Hirschl & Adler Galleries Buildings Architecture in American Modernism
(Exhibition catalog)		 96 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Brown, Milton W (others) American Art Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts 616 Yes
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West etc) 730 No
1979 Lieberman, William S Art of the Twenties
(Exhibition catalog)		 142 No
1979 Taylor, Joshua C The Fine Arts in America 264 No
1977 Ekdahl, Janis American Sculpture A Guide to Information Sources 260 No
1977 Hickman, Ronald Collectors
(Exhibition catalog)		 30 Yes
1977 Whitney Museum Lawrence H Bloedel Bequest Selections and Related Works 56 No
1976 Armstrong, Tom 200 Years of American Sculpture
(Exhibition catalog)		 336 Yes
1973 Davidson, Marshall The Artist's America American Heritage History of 416 Yes
1973 Kramer, Hilton The Age of the Avant-Garde An Art Chronicle 1956-1972 617 No
1971 Bell, David Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes) 2139 Yes
1968 Agee, William C The 1930's Painting & Sculpture in America
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 Yes
1968 Petersen, Martin E Master Works from the Collection Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego
(Exhibition catalog)		 70 Yes
1968 Rose, Barbara Readings in American Art Since 1900 A Documentary Survey 270 No
1968 Sadik, Marvin S Edith Halpert & the Downtown Gallery
(Exhibition catalog)		 96 No
1967 Rose, Barbara American Art Since 1900 A Critical History 320 Yes
1966 Goodrich, Lloyd Three Centuries of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 150 Yes
1965 Breeskin, Adelyn D Roots of Abstract Art in America, 1910-1930 (Smithsonian Institution)
(Exhibition catalog)		 84 Yes
1963 Goodrich, Lloyd Pioneers of Modern Art in America Decade of the Armory Show, 1910-1920 94 Yes
1963 Whitney Museum The Decade of the Armory Show New Directions in American Art 1910-1920
(Exhibition catalog)		 79 Yes
1934 Cahill, Holger/Alfred H Barr Art in America In Modern Times (1865-1934) 110 No
1933 Harshe, Robert (Introduction) A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings & Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 215 No
1915 Walter, John; Pedro Lemos Panama-Pacific Exposition: Catalogue of the Post-Exposition Exhibit 112 No
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