John Henry Bradley Storrs (1885-1956)
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
 
1920 John Storrs Exhibition, Folsom Galleries, New York, December 9- 24, 1920.
1921 Exhibition of Sculpture and Wood Engravings by John Storrs, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, January 21-February 4, 1921. (Exhibition later traveled to the Milwaukee Art Institute)
1923 Exhibition of Sculpture by John Storrs, Société Anonyme, Paris, New York, February 23-March 22, 1923. (Exhibition later traveled to The Arts Club of Chicago and probably the Milwaukee Art Institute)
1927 Sculpture by John Storrs, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, December 11-31, 1927. (Exhibition later traveled to The Brummer Gallery, Chicago)
1927 M. Knoedler and Company, New York, December 17-29, 1927.
1928 Storrs, The Brummer Gallery, New York, February 1- 25, 1928.
1929 An Exhibition of Original Drawings in Pencil and Silverpoint By the American Sculptor John Storrs, Albert Roullier Art Galleries, Chicago, April 9-26, 1929.
1931 Exhibition of Paintings by John Storrs, The Chester H. Johnson Galleries, Chicago , March 13-?, 1931
1935 An Exhibition by John Storrs: Sculpture, Painting and Drawing, Albert Roullier Art Galleries, Chicago, February 15-March 1, 1935.
1936 An Exhibition of Sculpture, Portraits, Original Drawings, Paintings by John Storrs, Albert Roullier Art Galleries, Chicago, ?-January 1936.
1937 Peintures et Sculptures de John Storrs, Galerie Bucher-Myrbor, Paris, France, 1937. 1938 Albert Roullier Art Galleries, Chicago.
1939 Five New Sculptures by John Storrs, Albert Roullier Art Galleries, Chicago, January 28-February 11, 1939.
1949 John Storrs Peintures Récentes, Sculptures, Bibliothèque Municipale, Orleans, France, May 23-June 7, 1949.
1965 John Storrs, The Downtown Gallery, New York, March 23-April 17, 1965.
1967 John Storrs, The Downtown Gallery, New York, April 18-May 13, 1967.
1969 John Storrs, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May 3-June 9, 1969.
1970 John Storrs: Paintings, Sculpture, Drawings, Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, November 21-December 24, 1970.
1972 John Storrs: Drawings and Prints, Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, November 4-30, 1972.
1975 John Storrs, Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, March 4-March 29, 1975.
1976 John Storrs (1885-1956): A Retrospective Exhibition of Sculpture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, November 13, 1976-January 2, 1977.
1978 John Storrs: Paintings of the Thirties, Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, October 21-November 18, 1978.
1979 John Storrs: Paintings and Sculpture of the Thirties, Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, April 29-May 26, 1979.
1983 John Storrs: Painting, Sculpture and Drawings, Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, January 4-26, 1983.
1986 John Storrs, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, December 11, 1986-March 22, 1987. (Exhibition traveled to Amon Carter Museum and J.B. Speed Art Museum)
1987 John Storrs: Prints and Drawings, Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, January 10-February 4, 1987.
1987 John Storrs Chicago 1885- Mer 1956, Musée de l’Orléanais, Château Dunois, Beaugency, France, 1987.
1994 John Storrs: Rhythm of Line, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, November 13, 1993-January 8, 1994.
1997 Paintings from Chantecaille, Robert Henry Adams Fine Art, Chicago, September 5- October 3, 1997.
1998 Sculpture and Related Drawings, Robert Henry Adams Fine Art, Chicago, April 24-June 2, 1998.
2001 Drawings: Figures, Monuments and Abstract Forms, Robert Henry Adams Fine Art, Chicago, April 27-June 15, 2001.
2003 John Storrs: Four Decades of Figurative Sculpture, Valerie Carberry Gallery, Chicago, September 5-October 13, 2003.
2005 John Storrs: Woodcuts, Valerie Carberry Gallery, Chicago, February 18 - March 9, 2005.
2008 John Storrs: Abstract Forms of the 1930s, Valerie Carberry Gallery, Chicago, January 4 - February 29, 2008.
2010 John Storrs: Machine-Age Modernist, Boston Athenaeum, May 12-September 3, 2010. (Exhibition traveled to Norton Museum of Art and Grey Art Gallery, New York University)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
 
1913 Salon d’Automne IIme Exposition de 1913, Société du Salon d’Automne.
1914 XXIVme Exposition, Société National des Beaux-Arts Salon de 1914.
1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco.
1917 Exhibition of Etchings under the Management of the Chicago Society of Etchers, Art Institute of Chicago.
1917 Première Exposition de L’Arc-en-Ciel Groupe Franco-Anglo-Americain, Galerie du Luxembourg, Paris.
1918 Exhibition of Etchings under the Management of the Chicago Society of Etchers, Art Institute of Chicago.
1919 Exposition des Artistes de l’École Americaine, Musée National du Luxembourg, Paris.
1920 Exposition des Peintures de Henry Ottman et des Sculptures de John Storrs, Galerie des Feuillets d’Art, Paris.
1921 Wood Block Prints with the Provincetown Printers, Brown-Robertson Gallery, New York.
1924 L’Architecture et les Arts Qui s’y Rattachent, L’Ecole Specialse d’Architecture, Paris.
1925 Exposition de 6 Peintres Americains – 2 Sculpteurs Americains, Galerie Briant-Robert, Paris. A Loaned Exhibition of Modern Art, Edgar Miller’s House at the End of the Street, Chicago.
1926 Artistes Américains de France, Galerie Jean Charpentier, Paris.
  Groupe de Peintres et Sculpteurs Américains de Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris.
  An International Exhibition of Modern Art, The Brooklyn Museum, New York.
1927 Salon of American Arts, Jacques Seligman et Fils, Paris.
  The Fortieth Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago.
1929 Contemporary American Sculpture, The California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco.
  Oeuvres Anciennes et Nouvelles, L’Effort Moderne, Paris.
  Forty-Second Annual Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago.
1931 The Eleventh International Exhibiton: Water Colors, Pastels, Drawings, Monotypes and Miniatures, Art Institute of Chicago
  The Forty-Fourth Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture An Exhibition of Original Drawings and Lithographs by Modern Masters, Albert Roullier Art Galleries, Chicago.
1931 American Contemporary Paintings and Sculpture, Society of Arts and Crafts, Detroit.
1933 Thirty-Seventh Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, Art Institute of Chicago.
  Paintings and Prints by Chicago Artists, Whitney Museum of American Art.
  Annual Exhibition by the Professional Members, Arts Club of Chicago.
  A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago.
  First Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Prints, Whitney Museum of American Art.
  Painting and Sculpture from 16 American Cities, Museum of Modern Art, New York.
1934 129th Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia.
  The Thirteenth International Exhibition: Water Colors, Pastels, Drawings and
Monotypes
, Art Institute of Chicago.
1935 The Eighth Biennial Exhibition of Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings by American and Foreign Artisits, The Brooklyn Museum, New York.
  Abstract Painting in America, Whitney Museum of American Art.
1937 Origines et Développement de l’Art International Independent, Musee du Jeu de Paume.
1938 An Exhibition of American Sculpture, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh.
1939 Half a Century of American Art, The Art Institute of Chicago.
1940 Annual Exhibition by the Professional Members, Arts Club of Chicago.
1949 3rd Sculpture International, Philadelphia Museum of Art.
  3me Exposition Artistique Régionale, Chateau Dunois, Beaugency, France.
1953 Exposition d’Art Religieux – Contemporain, Musée des Beaux-Arts d’Orleans.
1954 37me Exposition des Beaux-Arts de l’École de la Loire
1955 École de Paris 1955, Galerie Charpentier 76, Paris.
1963 The Decade of the Armory Show: New Directions in American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
1965 Roots of Abstract Art in America, 1919-1930, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
1966 The American Sculptor, 1900-1930, Zabriskie Gallery, New York.
1967 Six Decades of American Art, The Leicester Galleries, London, in association with the Downtown Gallery, New York.
1969 Edith Halpert and the Downtown Gallery, The University of Connecticut Museum of Art, Storrs.
1970 Art Deco, Finch College Museum of Art, New York.
1972 Forerunners of American Abstraction, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh.
1974 Art Deco and Its Origins, Heckscher Museum, Huntington, New York.
1975 Avant-Garde Painting & Sculpture in America 1910-25, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington.
  Shapes of Industry: First Images in American Art, Terry Dintenfass, New York.
1976 200 Years of American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art.
  America As Art, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution
1976 Arts and Crafts in Detroit 1906-1976: The Movement, The Society, The School, The Detroit Institute of Arts.
1977 Paris—New York, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
1979 École to Deco: Small Sculptures from a Private Collection, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio.
  Vanguard American Sculpture: 1913-1939, Rutgers University Art Gallery, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
  Constructivism and the Geometric Tradition: Selections from the McCrory Corporation Collection, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York.
  100 Artists 100 Years: Alumni of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago.
1981 Sculptors’ Drawings Over Six Centuries 1400-1950, The Drawing Center, New York.
  Classic Americans: XX Centry Painters & Sculptors, Stamford Museum and Nature Center, Stamford, Connecticut.
1982 Léger and the Modern Spirit: An Avant-Garde Alternative to Non-Objective Art (1918-1931), Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.
1983 Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America 1927-1944, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh.
1984 Artists Choose Artists III, CDS Gallery, New York. Print Acquisitions 1974-1984, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
  Primitivism in 20th Century Art: Affinity of the Tribal and the Modern, Museum of Modern Art, New York.
1985 The Figure in 20th Century American Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Federation of Arts, New York.
  The Fine Line: Drawing with Silver in America, Norton Gallery and School of Art.
  Art for the Masses 1911-1917: A Radical Magazine and Its Graphics, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut.
  Contrasts of Form: Geometric Abstract Art 1910-1980, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
1991 The Second Wave: American Abstraction of the 1930s and 1940s, Worchester Art Museum, Worchester, Massachusetts (traveled to the Samuel P. Harn Museum, University of Florida, Gainesville; and the Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington).
Six American Modernists, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, New York.
1998 American Abstract Art of the 1930s and 1940s: The J. Donald Nichols Collection, Wake-Forest University Fine Arts Gallery, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
2000 Twentieth-Century American Art: The Ebsworth Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (traveled to the Seattle Art Museum, Washington).
2003 A Transatlantic Avant-Garde: American Artists in Paris, 1918-1939, Musée d'Art Américain Giverny, France (traveled tot he Tacoma Art Museum, Washington; and the Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, Illinois).
2009 Adventures in Modern Art: The Charles K. Williams II Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania.
2010 American Modernism: The Shein Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
2011 Rodin and America: Influence and Adaptation 1876-1936, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, California.
2012 The Figure in Modern Sculpture, curated by Kenneth Wayne, Ph. D, Forum Gallery, New York, New York.






The estate of John Storrs is represented by Valerie Carberry Gallery in Chicago.
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