page_title: John Storrs
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: John Storrs / Life
caption_attribution_description: English: 'Profile Head with Cap', woodcut on paper by John Storrs, c. 1918, Smithsonian American Art Museum
context_page_description: John Henry Bradley Storrs, also known as John Bradley Storrs and John H. Storrs, was an American modernist sculptor best remembered for his art deco sculptures that examined the relationship between architecture and sculpture.
context_section_description: Storrs was born in Chicago in 1885, son of architect D.W. Storrs.  In 1905, he traveled to Berlin to study singing, but he soon decided to become a sculptor. He studied with Lorado Taft at the Art Institute of Chicago, with Bela Pratt at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and with Charles Grafly at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. By 1911, he was living in Paris, where he studied with Auguste Rodin and also attended the Académie Julian. He gradually moved from representational sculpture and wood engravings to the machine-like sculptures for which he is best known.
  During his time in France, Storss became friends with Jacques Lipchitz. In 1914, Storrs married the novelist and writer Marguerite Deville Chabrol and started dividing his time between France and the United States. In the 1930s, Storrs turned to abstract painting that often suggested the human figure. During World War II Storrs was twice arrested and imprisoned by the German occupation forces. After being released, he returned to his studio in Mer, France, and worked and lived there until his death in 1956.
caption: 'Profile Head with Cap', woodcut on paper, c. 1918, Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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