Study in Pure Form (Forms in Space, No. 4)
Date
1924-1925
Artist
John Storrs, American, b. Chicago, Illinois, 1885–1956
Provenance
The Artist, Blois, France, 1926
Edward B. Garrison, London (gift from the Artist), 1926-18 March 1969 (sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, lot. 4)
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 18 March 1969 (via Marlborough Fine Art) -6 March 1972
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972
Exhibition History
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Inaugural Exhibition," 4 October 1974-15 September 1975.
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, Chicago. "John Storrs: A Retrospective Exhibition of Sculpture," 13 November 1976-2 January 1977, p. 17.
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, Greenville, South Carolina. "Drawings: Selected Works from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden," 30 November 1977-22 January 1978, pp. 54-55. TOUR: COLUMBIA MUSEUM OF ART, Columbia, South Carolina, 5 February-19 March; GIBBES ART GALLERY, Charleston, South Carolina, 4 April-14 May.
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION TRAVELING EXHIBITION SERVICE, Washington, DC. "Twentieth Century Sculptors and Their Drawings: Selections from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 1979-1980," no. 46. TOUR: COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART, Columbus, Ohio, 20 June-19 August 1979; COLUMBUS MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER, Columbus, Georgia, 22 September-10 November; FLINT INSTITUTE OF ART, Michigan, 15 December 1979-3 February 1980; SOCIETY OF FOUR ARTS, Palm Beach, Florida, 23 February-13 April; ANCHORAGE HISTORICAL AND FINE ARTS MUSEUM, Alaska, 3 May-22 June; YELLOWSTONE ART CENTER, Billings, Montana, 26 July-23 September.
STERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTE, Williamstown, Massachusetts. "John Storrs, Eclectic Modernist," 7 November-28 December 1980, no. 12.
RENWICK GALLERY, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "American Art Deco," 17 April-13 July 1987.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Collection in Context: Metropolis in the Machine Age," 28 February-2 September 2002, no cat.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Shana Lutker: Le 'NEW' Monocle, Chapters 1–3," 29 October 2015–15 February 2016, no cat.
Published References
ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART, Smithsonian Institution, Washingotn, DC. The Downtown Gallery Papers, Frame 468.
NATIONAL COLLECTION OF FINE ARTS / NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, Smithsonian Insitution, Washington, DC. Vertical Files, Photograph from the Downtown Gallery, New York.
TARBELL, ROBERTA K. "John Storrs and Max Weber: Early Life and Work," Unpublished M. A. thesis (University of Delaware, 1968), p. 133, fig. 30, ill, p. 31.
LERNER, ABRAM, et al. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1974), p. 752.
DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS. Paris and the American Avant-Garde, 1900-1925 (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Museum Practice Program, 1980), exhibition cat. fig. 17, p. 21.
FRACKMAN, NOEL STERN. The art of John Storrs (Ph.D. diss., New York University, 1987), pp. 182-185, footnotes, no. 56, p. 215.
See file for further info.
See more items in
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection
School
Early American Modernism
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972
Data Source
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Accession Number
72.283
Type
Sculpture
Medium
Stainless steel, brass and copper on marble base
Dimensions
12 3/8 X 3 X 1 5/8 IN. (31.2 X 7.5 X 4.1 CM.) ON MARBLE BASE: 2 5/8 X 3 3/8 X 2 1/8 IN. (6.7 X 8.6 X 5.3 CM.); WT: 6 LB. (2.7 KG.)
