Artists Associated with Chicago

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The Terra's collection contains works of art by several individuals who had close professional ties to Chicago, whether by maintaining a studio in the area, belonging to local artists' organizations, or sending work to local exhibitions such as the annual Artists of Chicago and Vicinity at the Art Institute of Chicago.

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Sketch for "Politics"

John Storrs

Date: December 29, 1930

Credit Line: Terra Foundation for American Art: Gift of Michelle Storrs Booz

Object number: 2008.2

Text Entries: In his preparatory sketch for <a href="http://collection.terraamericanart.org/objects/1606">Politics (TF 2008.1)</a>, John Storrs precisely details the lines and shapes he used in the final, painted version of the composition, noting the relative values of the colors for the painting by means of various densities of shading. Even the scattered dots on the light-colored central shape, the only seemingly casual element among the composition's sharply edged and carefully ordered forms, correspond almost completely with their placement in the painting. Storrs's methodical and deliberate creative process, surely influenced by the architectural practice of his father, is underscored by his precise dating of the sketch (in the European order of day-month-year) and his inscription of the dimensions of the canvas for the painted version, a forty-inch square, at the lower right.

Politics

John Storrs

Date: 1931

Credit Line: Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Art Acquisition Endowment Fund

Object number: 2008.1

Text Entries: John Storrs, (exh. brochure, The Downtown Gallery, New York, NY) The Downtown Gallery, New York, NY, 1967. Ill. No. 8 front cover. John Storrs, (exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY). New York, NY: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1986. Text p. 93, ill. p. 92 (black & white). John Storrs: Rhythm of Line, (exh. cat. Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, NY). New York, NY: Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1993. Ill. no. 32, p. 32 (color). John Storrs: Abstract Forms of the 1930s, (exh. cat. Valerie Carberry Gallery, Chicago) Chicago, IL: Valerie Carberry Gallery, 2008. Ill. No. 1, cover, p. 5 (color). Pathways to Modernism: American Art, 1865-1945. (exh. cat. Shanghai Museum with Art Institute of Chicago and Terra Foundation for American Art). Shanghai: Shanghai Museum, 2018. Text p. 144; ill. p. 145 (color). Bourguignon, Katherine M., and Peter John Brownlee, eds. Conversations with the Collection: A Terra Foundation Collection Handbook. Chicago: Terra Foundation for American Art, 2018. Text p. 267; ill. p. 267 (color).