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Exhibition Reception, John Storrs, Machine-Age Modernist
Tuesday, May 11, 2010 - 5:30pm - 7:30pm
This event is open to the public.
John Storrs, Study in Architectural Forms (Forms in Space), 1927. Steel, 31 3/16 x 7 5/8 x 4 5/8 in. Raymond and Patsy Nasher Collection, Dallas, TX. Photographer: David Heald.John Storrs, Machine-Age Modernist
One of America?s foremost American modernists, John Storrs (1885 - 1956) produced a remarkable body of sculpture that helped invigorate a largely academic medium with dynamism previously unknown in the United States. As a figure situated at the forefront of both European and American avant-garde movements, Storrs became part of a vibrant, early twentieth-century culture enthralled with invention and stretching the visual parameters of art. During the early 1920s, he studied with Auguste Rodin in Paris and then became acquainted with many members of Katherine Dreier?s Societe Anonyme, a circle of artists that included Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Charles Demuth, Joseph Stella and Morton Schamberg among others.
This, the first exhibition of Storrs?s work in over twenty years, will be comprised of approximately forty drawings and sculptures drawn from various national collections, such as those of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Indianapolis Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Des Moines Art Center, Munson-Williams-Proctor Art Institute, St. Louis Art Museum, and Arts Club of Chicago, among other institutions and private lenders. After its debut at the Boston Athen?um, the exhibition will travel to the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, and the Grey Art Gallery, New York University. It is accompanied by a fully-illustrated catalogue and will be the impetus for a scholarly symposium, a lecture by the curator, and a series of gallery talks.
This exhibition is guest curated by Debra Bricker Balken and organized at the Boston Athen?um by David B. Dearinger, Susan Morse Hilles Curator of Paintings & Sculpture.
To Reserve: This event is open to the public and there is no fee. Reservations are not required.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010 - 5:30pm - 7:30pm
This event is open to the public.
John Storrs, Study in Architectural Forms (Forms in Space), 1927. Steel, 31 3/16 x 7 5/8 x 4 5/8 in. Raymond and Patsy Nasher Collection, Dallas, TX. Photographer: David Heald.John Storrs, Machine-Age Modernist
One of America?s foremost American modernists, John Storrs (1885 - 1956) produced a remarkable body of sculpture that helped invigorate a largely academic medium with dynamism previously unknown in the United States. As a figure situated at the forefront of both European and American avant-garde movements, Storrs became part of a vibrant, early twentieth-century culture enthralled with invention and stretching the visual parameters of art. During the early 1920s, he studied with Auguste Rodin in Paris and then became acquainted with many members of Katherine Dreier?s Societe Anonyme, a circle of artists that included Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Charles Demuth, Joseph Stella and Morton Schamberg among others.
This, the first exhibition of Storrs?s work in over twenty years, will be comprised of approximately forty drawings and sculptures drawn from various national collections, such as those of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Indianapolis Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Des Moines Art Center, Munson-Williams-Proctor Art Institute, St. Louis Art Museum, and Arts Club of Chicago, among other institutions and private lenders. After its debut at the Boston Athen?um, the exhibition will travel to the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, and the Grey Art Gallery, New York University. It is accompanied by a fully-illustrated catalogue and will be the impetus for a scholarly symposium, a lecture by the curator, and a series of gallery talks.
This exhibition is guest curated by Debra Bricker Balken and organized at the Boston Athen?um by David B. Dearinger, Susan Morse Hilles Curator of Paintings & Sculpture.
To Reserve: This event is open to the public and there is no fee. Reservations are not required.