Winged Horse by John Bradley Storrs
Art Institute of Chicago

Winged Horse

John Bradley Storrs · 1920

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. The artist, Chicago and Paris; sold to the Friends of American Art, Art Institute of Chicago, 1920; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1921.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Chicago, Arts Club of Chicago, Exhibition of Sculpture and Wood Engravings by John Storrs, Jan. 21–Feb. 4, 1921, cat. 2.
  • New York, Galleries of the Société Anonyme, Exhibition of Sculpture by John Storrs, Feb. 23–Mar. 22, 1923; trave;ed to Arts Club of Chicago, Apr. 13–24, 1923, cat. 21.
  • Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture: Lent from American Collections, June 1–Nov. 1, 1933, cat. 1214.
  • Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture: Lent from American Collections, June 1–Nov. 1, 1934, cat. 831.
  • New York, Downtown Gallery, John Storrs, Mar. 23–Apr. 17, 1965, cat. 18.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Art in Illinois: In Honor of the Illinois Sesquicentennial, June 15–Sept. 8, 1968 (no cat.).
  • Washington, DC., Corcoran Gallery of Art, Apr. 25–June 8, 1969.
  • Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, <em>Art Deco: Trends in Design</em>, May 1–June 9, 1973, no. 81, not in cat.
  • New York, Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, John Storrs, Mar. 4–29, 1975, cat. 7.
  • Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Arts, John Storrs: A Retrospective Exhibition of Sculpture, Nov. 13, 1976–Jan. 2, 1977; University of Indiana Art Museum, Jan. 18–Feb. 20, 1977; University of Maryland Art Gallery, Mar. 3–Apr. 1, 1977.
  • New York, Whitney Museum of Art, John Storrs, Dec. 11, 1986–Mar. 22, 1987, cat. 24; Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum, May 2– July 5, 1987; Louisville, Speed Art Museum, Aug. 28– Nov. 1, 1987.

Literature

Published references

  • Abraham A. Davidson, "John Storrs, Early Sculptor of the Machine Age," Artforum 8, 3 (November 1974), 43.
  • Kenneth Dinnin, "John Storrs: Organic Functionalism in Modern Idiom," The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts 6 (Fall 1987), 50–51 (ill.).
  • 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. 28.

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