Artwork Details
Artist
Creation Date
Materials
Object Types
Dimensions
21 x 3-7/8 x 1-9/16 in. (without base) 25-3/4 x 5-1/2 x 3-1/2 in. (with base)
Accession Number
Credit Line
Discretionary Fund
Copyright
Collection
American Painting and Sculpture 1800-1945
Color Palette
Provenance
Société Anonyme, New York, New York; Mrs. H. Edward Dreier, New York, New York; Edith Gregor Halpert, New York, New York (The Downtown Gallery); (Sotheby Park Bernet, New York, Sale #3520, 16 May 1973, catalogue 163 illustrated - Edith Gregor Halpert Collection, Part II and other Property); purchased by the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1973 (73.8).
Gallery Labels
This elegant column can be read as a skyscraper or an abstract arrangement of geometric forms.
The sculpture's rigid geometry is tempered by the juxtaposition of steel, brass and marble.
Storrs was interested in the raw materials of industry, and towering skyscrapers.
Exhibition History
Exhibition Name
Venue
Dates
Skyscraper Gothic
The Fralin Museum of Art, University of Virginia
August 27, 2021 - December 31, 2021
The Cult of the Machine: Precisionism in the Machine Age
Dallas Museum of Art
September 16, 2018 - January 6, 2019
The Cult of the Machine: Precisionism in the Machine Age
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum
March 24, 2018 - August 12, 2018
John Storrs: Machine-Age Modernist
Grey Art Gallery, New York University
April 12, 2011 - July 9, 2011
John Storrs: Architectural Forms
Norton Museum of Art
October 2, 2010 - January 2, 2011
John Storrs: Architectural Forms
The Boston Athenaeum
May 11, 2010 - September 3, 2010
Debating American Modernism: Stieglitz and Duchamp, 1915-1927
Terra Museum of American Art
August 29, 2003 - November 30, 2003
Debating American Modernism: Stieglitz and Duchamp, 1915-1927
Des Moines Art Center
May 9, 2003 - August 1, 2003
Debating American Modernism: Stieglitz and Duchamp, 1915-1927
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
January 24, 2003 - April 20, 2003
John Storrs (1885-1956)
Speed Art Museum
August 28, 1987 - November 1, 1987
John Storrs (1885-1956)
Amon Carter Museum of American Art
May 2, 1987 - July 5, 1987
John Storrs (1885-1956)
Whitney Museum of American Art
December 11, 1986 - March 22, 1987
Fernand Leger Et L'Esprit Nouveau
Musée d'Art et d'Histoire Geneva / Musée Rath
November 4, 1982 - January 16, 1983
Fernand Leger Et L'Esprit Nouveau
Museum of Modern Art, Houston
July 9, 1982 - September 5, 1982
Fernand Leger Et L'Esprit Nouveau
Musée d'art Moderne de la Vile de Paris
March 17, 1982 - June 6, 1982
Indianapolis Museum of Art
October 21, 1980 - November 30, 1980
Vanguard American Sculpture: 1913-1939
Witte Memorial Museum
June 27, 1980 - August 25, 1980
Vanguard American Sculpture: 1913-1939
Oakland Museum of California
April 15, 1980 - May 25, 1980
Vanguard American Sculpture: 1913-1939
Joslyn Art Museum
February 16, 1980 - March 30, 1980
Vanguard American Sculpture: 1913-1939
Ackland Art Museum
December 4, 1979 - January 20, 1980
Vanguard American Sculpture: 1913-1939
Rutgers University Art Gallery
September 16, 1979 - November 4, 1979
Pret Paris New York: A Continuing Romance
Centre Georges Pompidou
May 24, 1977 - September 19, 1977
John Storrs (1885-1956): A Retrospective Exhibition of Scupture
Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University
January 18, 1977 - February 20, 1977
John Storrs (1885-1956): A Retrospective Exhibition of Scupture
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
November 13, 1976 - January 2, 1977
America as Art
Smithsonian Institution
April 30, 1976 - September 12, 1976
Avante Garde Painting and Sculpture in America, 1910-1925
Delaware Art Museum
April 4, 1975 - May 18, 1975
Exhibition
Corcoran Gallery of Art
1969 - 1969
John Storrs Retrospective, International Exhibition of Modern Art
Brooklyn Museum
November 19, 1926 - January 1, 1927
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