Personal Business Records
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Storrs, John Henry Bradley, 1885-1956
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content: John Henry Bradley Storrs papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2.9 Linear Feet (Boxes 7-9, 25, OV 24, 28)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1790
label: Date
content: 1855-1987
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.storjohn, Series 3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Items are arranged chronologically within each folder.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Automobile records, Deville-Chabrol family estate records, select financial records have not been scanned. Auction posters have not been scanned due to size.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: John Storrs' personal business records consist of address books, records regarding his artwork and commissions, contracts, appraisals, financial records, and other documents regarding professional activities. Artwork Records include scattered exhibition loan forms, records of loans and sales of his work, and various lists of artwork. Also included here are correspondence and loan forms for his retrospective exhibitions at the Corcoran Gallery and Whitney Museum, documentation from art shipping company Lefebvre-Foinet, and extensive documentation of Downtown Gallery's representation of Storrs' work during the 1960s, including correspondence between Edith Halpert and Monique Storrs Booz.

Commission Files document many of the major public sculptures done by Storrs. Files may include correspondence, news clippings and press material, sketches, photographs, and legal contracts. 

 Financial Records consist of correspondence and agreements with financial institutions; bills and receipts; tax, stock, and insurance records; and ledgers recording John Storrs' monthly transactions. 

 Also filed here are city adoption documents regarding Storrs' attempts to find American sister-cities for French cities devastated by World War II. Various other documents include records of the Ecole de la Loire artists group (all in French), various contracts and agreements, and estate records for family members of Marguerite Storrs.  Additionally there are records relating to Chateau de Chantecaille, an estate purchased by Storrs in the early 1920s as his primary residence and studio, including and appraisals and inventories for furniture, maintenance records, correspondence, drawings and plans for the property, and a guest book signed by visitors to the estate containing  notable autographs by Marsden Hartley, George Biddle, and others.