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John Storrs

Le Sergent de Ville, model by 1919, cast c. 1923

Not on View

Medium

bronze with selective silver plating

Dimensions

overall: 13 5/8 × 4 5/8 × 5 1/8 in. (34.6 × 11.8 × 13 cm)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, William A. Clark Fund)

Accession Number

2014.136.282

Artists / Makers

John Storrs (sculptor) American, 1885 - 1956

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Inscription

lower right reverse, in monogram: JS; proper left on vertical plane of the ground: CIRE / C. VALSUANI / PERDUE

Provenance

The artist [1885-1956], Paris; by inheritance to his daughter, Monique Storrs Booz [1918-1985], Winnetka, Illinois; purchased 1969 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Booz, Monique Storrs
Corcoran Gallery of Art

Exhibition History

1923: Possibly Exhibition of Sculpture by John Storrs, Société Anonyme, New York; Arts Club of Chicago, 1923, no. 9, as Policeman.[1]

1965: Possibly A Gallery Survey of American Art, Downtown Gallery, New York, 8 September - 2 October 1965, unpublished checklist, as Gendarme.

1968: Selections from the Downtown Gallery, Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, 2 January - 3 October 1968, no. 38 (checklist published in museum's quarterly news bulletin, vol. 16, no. 3, April 1968).

1969: John Storrs: A Retrospective Exhibition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 2 May - 9 June 1969, no. 14, unpublished checklist.

1971: Forerunners of American Abstraction, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 18 November 1971 - 9 January 1972, no. 113, repro.

1978: The William A. Clark Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 26 April - 16 July 1978.

1979: Vanguard American Sculpture: 1913-1939, Rutgers University Art Gallery, New Brunswick; William Hayes Ackland Art Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha; Oakland Museum, 1979-1980, no. 122, fig. 40 (shown only in New Brunswick).

1986: John Storrs, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth; J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, 1986- 1987, unnumbered checklist.

2004: Figuratively Speaking: The Human Form in American Art, 1770-1950, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 20 November 2004 - 7 August 2005, unpublished checklist.

2007: Modernism: Designing a New World, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2007.

2008: The American Evolution: A History through Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1 March - 27 July 2008, unpublished checklist.

2009: American Bronzes from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 20009-2012.

2013: American Journeys: Visions of Place, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 21 September 2013 - 28 September 2014, unpublished checklist.

Exhibition History Notes

[1] The New York venue did not have a checklist, but the checklist for the showing at the Arts Club of Chicao included "Policeman (bronze and silver plated)." Only the NGA cast, the version in a private collection, and possibly a third unlocated cast, fit this description. Both the New York and Chicago exhibitions were similiar, as is known from a letter written by Katherine Dreier to the artist, 6 April 1923: "Everything was sent, except the little piece [Untitled (The Dancer)] purchased by me." See Noel Frackman, "The Art of John Storrs," Ph.D. dissertaton, New York University, 1987: 132, 153 n. 49.

Bibliography

1987: Dinin, Kenneth. "John Storrs: Organic Functionalism in a Modern Idiom." The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts (Fall 1987): 66, fig. 23.