Art Institute of Chicago

Ceres

John Bradley Storrs · 1928

Provenance

Ownership history

From the artist to the Chicago Board of Trade, received by J.W. Harris, member of construction company. Frederick Durland. Robert Schoelkopf Gallery New York; sold to John N. Stern, Chicago, December 1979; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, December 1981.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Arts Club of Chicago, Annual Exhibition by the Professional Members, Apr. 23–May 13, 1933.
Art Institute, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–Nov. 1, 1934.
Williamstown, Massachusetts, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, John Storrs and John Flannagan: Sculpture and Works on Paper, Nov. 7–Dec. 28, 1980.
Whitney Museum of American Art, John Storrs, Dec. 11, 1986–Mar. 22, 1987; Amon Carter Museum, May 2–July 5, 1987; Louisville, Spped Art Museum, Aug. 28–Nov. 1, 1987.
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Architecture and Design, 1923–1993: Reconfiguration of an American Metropolis, June 12–Aug. 29, 1993.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Human Figure in American Sculpture: A Question of Modernity, Feb. 23–May 14, 1995; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, June 22–Sept. 10, 1995; Wichita Art Museum, Oct. 19, 1995–Jan. 7, 1996; New York, National Academy of Design, Feb. 15–May 5, 1995.
Musee d'Aert Americain Giverny, A Transatlantic Avant–Garde: American Artists in Paris, 1918–1939, Aug. 31–Nov. 30, 2003; Chicago, Terra Museum of American Art, Apr. 17–June 27, 2004, Chicago venue only.

Literature

"The Trader" (Chicago Board of Trade, 1997).
William Falloon, "Market Maker: A Sesquicentennial Look at the Chicago Board of Trade (1998), 2, cover (ill.).
Judith A. Barter, “Designing for Democracy: Modernism and Its Utopias,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 27, 2 (2001), 6 (ill.), 7–17, fig. 5.
Judith A. Barter, et al., <em>American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), cat. 77. 29.

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